ARM® DS-5TM Streamline Performance Analyzer, part of the ARM DS-5 toolchain, is an useful tool for developers doing system level software optimization for ARM Linux and Android platforms. Streamline…
Linux hwmon, power management and ARM DS-5 Streamline
The hwmon is a generic Linux kernel subsystem, providing access to hardware monitoring components like temperature or voltage/current sensors. Traditionally interfaced via external buses like I2C, many…
Debugging multicore devices via USB with ARM DS-5
ARM-based platforms come in a range of processor configurations, and these platforms often have more than one ARM processor. Traditionally these have been Symmetric Multi Processing (SMP) systems, where…
UEFI Debug Made Easy
This blog shows step-by-step how to build the UEFI software and debug it at source level, including all dynamically loaded modules (DLLs), using the ARM Development Studio 5 (DS-5) toolchain.
Arm Cortex-A Processors and GCC Command Lines
This blog covers three areas of GCC’s command line options: CPU, floating point and SIMD (Single Instruction, Multiple Data) acceleration.
How do you make Java fast? Answer: Go down the pub!
It all started back in 2008, I'd been looking at what the Software Bill-of-Materials would be for an ARM-based Netbook. I'm a great fan of JEOS (Just-Enough-OS) to support the end users software…
NEVADA: NEON Visualization for ARM Developers
Embedded devices have rapidly evolved in the past decade. Although these devices are capable of running advanced web and desktop applications with sufficient performance, further improving the software…
Using ARM NEON to accelerate Scalable Vector Graphics in webkit by up to 4x
IntroductionIn the information era with its increased use of mobile devices to communicate and access information, web browsers constitute the central component to navigate through the vast amount of information…
ARM DS-5 Community Edition: Enabling the Android Developer Community
The need for quality professional tools for cross platform development when battling obscure software bugs and performance issues cannot be understated. With the ARM® Development Studio 5 (DS-5™) Community…