Benchmarking - ARM DS-5™ Streamline is designed for software and system analysis (see previous posts on Timeline analysis and software profiling), and that is where all its power features apply…
Software Optimization: Four real-life Streamline use cases (Part 2)
Smart software profilingFollowing up from previous post (Software Optimization: Four real-life Streamline use cases (Part 1): Timeline analysis), I will talk about the most basic use of ARM DS-5™ Stre…
Software Optimization: Four real-life Streamline use cases (Part 1)
Here at ARM's System Design Division almost every time we introduce someone to the ARM® DS-5™ Streamline performance analyzer we end up being asked, so how much faster can my system run…
ARM Versatile Express Cortex-A57 Soft Macrocell Model
An SMM is a Soft Macrocell Model which is an FPGA implementation of an ARM processor, built with ARM development boards. Life with an SMM, would be much easier, at least from an engineer's perspective…
Power Management with big.LITTLE: A technical overview
Using power management features of complex SoCs (system on chip) can be difficult due to the complexity of the design and multiple power domains. In this blog I discuss the power management hardware features…
ARM Cortex-A...How Hard Can it Be?
Smartphones are now one of the most important consumer electronics devices globally. Smartphone volume shipments are growing at a very healthy rate and are expected to exceed a billion units per annum…
ARM Cortex-A57 Test Chip on TSMC 16nm FinFET Process Optimizes Tools & Flows
Taking a major step forward for advanced-node semiconductor design, ARM and Cadence recently (April 4, 2013) announced the first implementation of an ARM® CortexTM-A57 processor on the TSMC 16nm FinFET…
The Server in Your Hand - and the three new interfaces inside it
Do you love your smartphone? Is your tablet the best computer you've ever owned? If you're like me, and nearly a billion other folks on the plant, the answer is a passionate YES! The evidence is everywhere…
ARM Cortex-A50 Processor Series Wins 'Product of the Year' Award
More than 3400 product announcements. 700 applications. Less than 20 winners selected for 2012.It was a great honor for the ARM® Cortex™-A57 and A53 processors based on the ARMv8 architecture to receive…