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| Intelligence |
| ARM Recognized as "Best in 2005" in Leading Industry Publications
ARM was recently recognized as the "Best in 2005" by three leading electronics industry publications:
Electronic Products Magazine ... read the article |
| by I.Q. Magazine |
| ARM Processor and Physical IP Deliver Groundbreaking 750 MHz ARM11 Implementation
A groundbreaking high performance implementation of the ARM1176JZF-S... read the article |
| by: I.Q. Magazine |
| New ARM RealView Tools Offer Complete Out-of-the-box Development Solution for ARM Powered MCUs
ARM has released the new RealView... read the article |
| by: I.Q. Magazine |
| ARM-Synopsys Verification Methodology Manual for SystemVerilog Endorsed by Leading Japanese Semiconductor Companies
The Verification Methodology Manual (VMM) for SystemVerilog has been endorsed by the Semiconductor Technology Academic Research Center (STARC, a research consortium co-founded by eleven major Japanese semiconductor companies) and major electronics companies in Japan as a reference to develop advance... read the article |
| by: I.Q. Magazine |
| Embedded Systems Institute to Become ARM Approved Training Center in China
Embedded Systems Institute (ESI), an institute of The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in Nansha IT Park in Guangdong, China, and ARM have announced that ESI has been certified as an ARM Approved Training Center (ATC). ESI will provide training programs to university students and indus... read the article |
| by: I.Q. Magazine |
| PortalPlayer Introduces Preface Personal Media Display Technology Supporting Microsoft Windows Sideshow in Notebook Computers
At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2006, PortalPlayer Inc. announced a new technology platform called Preface that will give notebook users instant access to data, music and photos without opening the notebook, booting the system and loading the needed application.
"This is an excit... read the article |
| by: I.Q. Magazine |
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| Technology In-Depth |
| Designing for Security - Why Software Isn't Enough
This article exposes some of the issues that are often overlooked when designing today's security architectures and provides a discussion of high-integrity security solutions that create a hardware-enforced security environment.... read the article |
| by Greg Powell, President and CEO, Valicore Technologies |
| The Design Dilemma: Multiprocessing Using Multiprocessors and Multithreading
The real change now affecting the embedded market is that the application software is also being asked to view the general purpose processor element using a multiprocessing paradigm so that this processor can also benefit from the promises of higher performance and low-power. Mutiprocessing and mult... read the article |
| by: John Goodacre, Multiprocessing Program Manager, ARM |
| Delivering High-Performance Implementations of ARM Processors with IC Compiler in the ARM-Synopsys Reference Methodology
ARM and Synopsys have a long-standing relationship of over a decade that has included a co-developed Reference Methodology (RM) for implementing synthesizable ARM using Synopsys tools. At the ARM Developers... read the article |
| by: Marc Swinnen, IC Compiler Product Marketing Manger, Synospsys |
| ARM11 MPCore Provides Existing Software Portability Across Single-CPU and Multi-CPU Designs
The ARM11 MPCore synthesizable processor implements the ARM11 microarchitecture and can be configured to contain between one and four processors delivering up to an aggregate 2600 Dhrystone MIPS of performance. The ARM11 MPCore processor provides enhanced memory throughput of 1.3 Gbytes/sec from a s... read the article |
| by: Erik Ploof, ARM |
| Multi-core Silicon Brings Performance and Power Consumption Advantages but Raises the Software Complexity Bar
Multi-core silicon provides exciting possibilities to keep the performance delivery curve going in the right direction, but enhanced and new software tools and run-time solutions are required to simplify the transition from single to dual-core and beyond, and we are just in the beginning of this pha... read the article |
| by: Sven Brehmer, PolyCore Software |
| Herding Cats
"It is common to tackle complexity with successive levels of abstraction. However, historically there has always been a compromise between the need for ease of use and the ability to extract the best possible efficiency from the resources of the underlying system. Where power dissipation is of param... read the article |
| by: Mark Lippett, Ignios |
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| Design Strategies & Methodologies |
| Prototype Debug
This article provides one solution to a common problem: what can designers do when they design a processor in a BGA package into a circuit, send it off to fab, get it back, plug it in, and nothing happens? The good news is, there... read the article |
| by Rick Folea, Macraigor Systems |
| Silicon Design Chain Extends Low-Power Design Collaboration
Recognizing the need to cooperate more closely on nanometer design issues, such as signal integrity, dynamic and leakage power consumption, and manufacturability, industry leaders Applied Materials, ARM, Cadence and TSMC formed the Silicon Design Chain (SDC) Initiative. Combining their expertise, th... read the article |
| by: George Kuo, Cadence |
| Tracking the Virtual World
For many years the JTAG interface has been used for ARM-based SoC debugging. With this JTAG style debugging, the developer has been granted the ability to debug software at the high-level. Breakpoints could be set, registers and memory could be accessed, and the processor could be started and stoppe... read the article |
| by: Rudolf Dienstbeck, RTOS Integrations, Lauterbach |
| Learning to Love Your Debugger
In 1999 Jack Ganssle wrote "Learn to love your Debugger. You are going to spend a lot time with it." In the case of the ARM RealView Development Suite debugger this has never been truer. This is not because there are suddenly more bugs to be found in your code, but because the debugger can now be us... read the article |
| by: Rod Crawford, ARM Regional Marketing Manager for RealView Tools |
| Setting the Standard for Debug and Trace in Multi-core SoCs
Any developer, but above all the firmware or software developer, building a complex, microprocessor-based embedded product faces an enormous challenge to get a reliable, high performance product to market on time. Embedded debug and trace logic built in to the system-on-chip (SoC) can greatly assist... read the article |
| by: William Orme, ARM |
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| Consumer Lifestyles |
| New Toshiba gigabeat
Freescale's multimedia technology and Microsoft Windows Mobile Portable Media Center software deliver rich mobile entertainment experience with easy movie downloads and spectacular video quality in Toshiba... read the article |
| by Brian Beasley, Freescale Semiconductor |
| TI
TI's ARM Powered... read the article |
| by: Erik Ploof, Director of Corporate Identity, ARM |
| ARM Powered Products Topped US Holiday Season Wish Lists
A new report by the Shopping in America Holiday 2005 consumer survey conducted for The MaceRich Company found that 67 percent of electronic gifts on US consumers holiday wish lists were based on ARM Powered... read the article |
| by: Erik Ploof, ARM |
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| Market Watch |
| Multi-core: The Move from Proprietary Solutions to Open Standards
To help the embedded industry accelerate the adoption of multi-core devices, several key ingredients must be developed, including open standards to enable vendors' products to work together, and another is the availability of standard benchmarks.... read the article |
| by Markus Levy, Founder and President, EEMBC |
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| Tools of the Trade |
| Beach Solutions Adds SPIRIT Support to ARM RealView Debugger
Beach Solutions has announced a further enhancement of its ESL tools to generate ARM RealView Debugger register views from ESL data, including SPIRIT data. This enhancement will allow SoC developers to automatically produce register view configuration files (.bcd format) that are consistent with the... read the article |
| by Duncan Bryan, VP of Product Marketing, Beach Solutions |
