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| Intelligence |
| Luminary Micro, Keil, and Circuit Cellar Announce DesignStellaris2006 Design Contest
Luminary Micro, Keil, and Circuit Cellar
magazine have announced the launch of the
DesignStellaris2006 design contest for
Luminary Micro... read the article |
| TI Enhances Automotive Safety with First IEC 61508-Compliant Processor Solution
Accelerating the trend towards safer, but less
complex automotive chassis control applications,
Texas Instruments has introduced a
new symmetrical dual-core microcontroller
(MCU). The TMS570 MCU is the first automotive
processor solution to support a certification
according to the Internationa... read the article |
| Sir Robin Saxby, Founder, CEO and Chairman, Retires from ARM
Sir Robin Saxby, Chairman of ARM, retired
from the Board in October 2006, and took up
the role of President of the Institute of
Engineering and Technology (IET). During
his year as President of the IET, Sir Robin will
remain associated with ARM as Chairman
Emeritus.
As part of a planned trans... read the article |
| Samsung Adopts ARM Technology for World
Samsung Electronics has licensed ARM
Jazelle software technology for deployment
in the Samsung BD-P1000 device ... read the article |
| ARM Extends Approved Design Center Program with Software Specialist Category
ARM has announced the launch of the ARM
Approved Design Center Software Specialist
program, an extension to its successful ARM
Approved Design Center program. Tata Elxsi,
a leading provider of Embedded Technology
and Design services, has been appointed as
the first member of the new program.
... read the article |
| EEMBC Scores for NXP
New certified processor benchmark scores
published by the Embedded Microprocessor
Benchmark Consortium (EEMBC) for
the NXP Semiconductors ARM7-based
LPC2129 microcontroller provide a striking
indication of the impact of embedded
high-speed flash memory design on device
performance and the dif... read the article |
| ARM Strengthens Physical IP Portfolio by Adding Silicon on Insulator Technology
ARM has strengthened its IP portfolio by
acquiring SOISIC, a leading company in
Physical IP based on Silicon on Insulator
(SOI) technology. The privately-owned company
has offices in Grenoble, France and
Santa Clara, California. The Grenoble office
will become a new design center for the
ARM... read the article |
| ARM Recognized As Business Of The Year
ARM has won the Business of the Year
Award at this year... read the article |
| ARM Releases Free OpenMAX DL Sample Software Library
The source code for the ARM sample implementation
of OpenMAX DL (Development
Layer) software library, designed to enable
rapid implementation and seamless portability
of video, image and audio codecs
(encoders/decoders), is freely available for
download.
The ARM... read the article |
| Atmel Offers Industry's First ARM7 Flash MCUs to Support GByte-plus SDRAM, NAND Flash and CompactFlash
Atmel Corporation has added three new
microcontrollers to its SAM7 family of
ARM7... read the article |
| RFMD Provides Bluetooth Solution to Leading Handset Baseband Supplier
RF Micro Devices, Inc. has announced a collaboration
with MediaTek, Inc., a global
leader in consumer and communications IC
solutions, to create Bluetooth-enabled EDGE
and GPRS mobile phone reference designs
with RFMD's SiW3500. The SiW3500 is a
highly integrated, single-chip Bluetooth
soluti... read the article |
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| Technology In-Depth |
| Four Steps to a Great ARM Microcontroller Application
The ARM... read the article |
| by Rod Crawford, RealView Marketing Manager, North America, ARM |
| ARM996HS Synthesizable CPU with Clockless Technology
The continued, strong global demand
for portable consumer electronics products
is a major factor in the drive for new design
techniques to help meet reduced power
budgets, and at the same time minimize
manufacturing costs. ARM has an enviable
track record in offering low-power solutions
that ... read the article |
| by: Arjan Bink and Mark de Clercq, Handshake Solutions, and Richard York, ARM |
| High-Bandwidth Processor Architectures for Data-centric, Human-interface Applications
Broadband access has become
commonplace, paving the way for a
new content-rich Web experience that
now includes both audio and video.
The microcontrollers that drive these
applications must store, process and
move massive amounts of data at very
high rates between the peripherals, the
memory... read the article |
| by: Dany Nativel and Jacko Wilbrink, Atmel Corporation |
| Mobile Software Management Accelerates with Embedded Feature Delivery
Embedded Feature Delivery (EFD)
promises to allow customers to
customize handsets to meet their
needs after the handset has left
the factory!... read the article |
| by: Yoram Salinger, CEO, Red Bend Software |
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| Design Strategies & Methodologies |
| Building a Virtual-platform Design Ecosystem through Open System-level Integration Strategies
The concurrent design benefits enabled
by Electronic System Level (ESL) tools have
been held back by a lack of standard
model interfaces. Chris Lennard and
Nizar Romdhane look at developments
in this area that are now helping to drive
the system-level design process forward.... read the article |
| by Chris Lennard and Nizar Romdhane, ARM, Inc. |
| ARM Physical IP Deploy Liberty Composite Current Source
Accurate library models are essential for
Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools
used for IC design implementation and signoff.
To ensure high accuracy at technology
nodes of 90nm and below, library models
must capture, in more detail, the complex
transistor behavior of cells. Current-based
... read the article |
| by: George Mekhtarian, Product manager, Synopsys and Rob Aitken, Fellow, ARM |
| Complex SoC Verification Using an ARM Processor
Technology evolution, in part, has enabled
the transition of multi-million gate designs
from large printed circuit boards to SoC
(System on Chip). The major advantages of
SoC include low cost per gate, low power
consumption, faster circuit operation, reliable
implementation, smaller physical s... read the article |
| by: Mallesham Boini, Senior ASIC Design and Verification Engineer, eInfochips Inc. |
| Magma iRM for ARMPoweredoptimized Cortex
As the feature size of process technology
becomes smaller, the leakage power
dominates overall power dissipation and
the problem gets worse if the design is
supposed to perform at very high frequencies.
This article addresses specific problems
for achieving high performance and low
power whil... read the article |
| by: Vasu Madabushi, Gary Powell and Joe Walston, Magma Design Automation; Stuart Riches, ARM Limited, UK |
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| Consumer Lifestyles |
| Reading Technology for the Visually Impaired
Checking receipts, reading menus,
flicking through price tags on a clothes
rail and looking up train timetables are
second nature to most people, unless
they happen to be visually impaired and
forced to rely on human readers or
software programs for such information.
But an ARM Powered portab... read the article |
| by Jan Howells, Editor, ARM IQ Online |
| Creating Entertainment Robots that Bond with Humans
In this issue we take a close look at the
... read the article |
| by: An ARM Interview, by Jan Howells, Editor IQ online |
| ARM Powered House
At recent events in the UK and US,
ARM opened the doors to its ... read the article |
| by: Jan Howells, Editor IQ online |
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| Market Watch |
| All ARM-Powered Microcontrollers are Not Created Equal
Although datasheet specifications
and a Dhrystone MIPS rating provide a
very coarse starting point for evaluation,
processors with the same rating from
multiple vendors can look very different
when confronted with real-world
applications.... read the article |
| by Markus Levy, Founder and President, EEMBC |
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| Tools of the Trade |
| 2006 ARM Developers
The 3rd. Annual worldwide ARM
Developers... read the article |
| by Glenn ImObersteg, Convergence Promotions |
| New RealView Product Releases
RealView ESL APIs v1.1
ARM has released the RealView ESL
Application Programming Interfaces
(APIs) v1.1. These SystemC interfaces for
fast cycle-accurate Transaction Level
Modeling are offered openly, and can be
downloaded from http://www.arm.com/
products/DevTools/RealViewESLAPIs.html.
Th... read the article |
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| Multicore Design |
| Easing the Transition to Multi-Core Processors
Compared to conventional uniprocessor
designs, the ARM11 MPCore multi-core
processor can offer significantly greater
performance while consuming less power
and generating less heat. Developers won... read the article |
| by Paul N. Leroux and Robert Craig, QNX Software Systems |
| Blending Asymmetric and Symmetric Multiprocessing with a Single OS on ARM11 MPCore
ARM11 MPCore is an excellent
multicore processor, appropriate for
both SMP and AMP. Many embedded
system designs already use the AMP model,
either on chip or off chips, so unforeseen
design challenges are limited for software
developers using AMP model with MPCore.
On the other hand, the incr... read the article |
| by: Masaki Gondo, Director of Engineering, eSOL Co., Ltd. |
| Increase Performance With Embedded Multi-Core Processors
Recently, we have recognized
that computing performance
increases in the PC world is achieved
mainly by increasing the number of
CPUs instead of higher clock rates
because of reaching technological
limitations. In the embedded world
other restrictions exist but nevertheless
just increasing c... read the article |
| by: Harald Bothe, Research Engineer, Nokia Research Center, Bochum |
