Last month Google and Samsung released the first commercially available product using the ARM® Cortex™-A15 SoC design: the new Series 3 Chromebook. Not only does the Chromebook have the new…
Cortex-A15 and Cortex-A7 big.LITTLE hardware from ARM
I would like to share some news around one of the products we recently released, the V2P-CA15x2_A7x3. This is a new member of the Versatile ™ Express CoreTile family and is the first ARM big…
ARMv8 Tools - Everything You Need To Develop for AArch64
The introduction of a new architecture as significant as ARMv8, or AArch 64, requires careful consideration of the impact to existing software! The good news is, the new architecture is compatible with…
ARM technology software newbie? Try the Cortex A-Series Programmer's Guide
The ARM architecture has been used for many years in mobile phones and electronic devices, but it is only relatively recently that the architecture has diversified into being used in laptops, tablets and…
CoreSight delivers debug and trace for tomorrow's systems
Debugging and optimizing software is always a demanding job. As today's systems become more complex the task of providing a suitable debug and trace solution becomes increasingly challenging - yet it…
Memory access ordering part 3: Memory access ordering in the Arm Architecture
This post goes into the juicy bits of what memory access ordering actually means and how this is handled in the Arm architecture.
Arm Fundamentals: Introduction to understanding Arm processors
This article is the first of a series on Arm fundamentals that will introduce various topics to help you get more familiar with the Arm architecture.
Page Colouring on ARMv6 (and a bit on ARMv7)
Page colouring is sometimes used as an optimization but as a result of the cache architecture some ARMv6 processors actually require the allocator use page colouring. This article will explain why the…
Coding for Neon - Part 5: Rearranging Vectors
When writing code for Neon, you may find that sometimes, the data in your registers are not quite in the correct format for your algorithm. We explore this in further detail here.