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| Intelligence |
| Mobile Industry Processor Interface Alliance (MIPI) Expands
Emblaze Semiconductor recently joined the Mobile Industry Processor Interface Alliance (MIPI). The MIPI alliance aims to establish and promote Open Standards for interfaces to mobile application processors.
Standardization of architecture and interfaces speeds handset design time-to-market... read the article |
| by IQ Magazine |
| gate5 AG Launches smart2go, its New Smartphone Service for Location Based Media
During the Nokia Application Summit in Amsterdam, gate5 AG launched their new smart2go service for smartphones providing truly interactive metro maps. The service is based on a mobile content player which offers a comprehensive local (on-board) map solution with address search, local bookmarks, and ... read the article |
| by: IQ Magazine |
| Memec Unique Appointed to Distribute ARM RealView Developer Kit for OKI
Memec Unique, a member of The Memec Group and a specialist semiconductor distributor, announced that it has been appointed by ARM to distribute the ARM... read the article |
| by: IQ Magazine |
| Profitability starts with the Operating System
Today, embedded software development is becoming more complex, and time and cost pressure are really tremendous. Companies increasingly need to look beyond the software itself and examine the management of their software deve-lopement projects in order to ensure predictable cost control and well-fou... read the article |
| by: IQ Magazine |
| Accelerated Technology
Responding to the needs of system-on-chip (SoC) developers, Accelerated Technology has provided a Nucleus software solution for the ARM1136J-S... read the article |
| by: IQ Magazine |
| Next Generation Nintendo Generating Excitement with Two ARM9 Cores and 128MB of RAM
With the recent unveiling of Nintendo... read the article |
| by: IQ Magazine |
| ARM Overtaking x86 Processor Architecture as Preferred Processor Architecture for Linux Applications
The results of LinuxDevices.com's fourth annual Embedded Linux Market Survey are in! As reported in last year... read the article |
| by: IQ Magazine |
| ARM Introduces Ground Breaking Embedded Signal Processing Core
At the Embedded Processor Forum in San Jose, ARM announced their new OptimoDE... read the article |
| by: IQ Magazine |
| ARM & NEC Deliver a New Form of Synthesizable Multiprocessor
As part of its ongoing partnership with NEC Electronics, ARM announced a new synthesizable multiprocessor core - the MPCore... read the article |
| by: IQ Magazine |
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| Technology In-Depth |
| ARM/Superscape Deliver New Standard for 3D on Mobile Phones
Java Community Process helps specify and develop the new Mobile 3D Graphics API (JSR 184) international standard for the delivery of 3D applications on mobile phones.
Given the global nature of the mobile telecommunications industry, the need for international standards to ensure that these new s... read the article |
| by Paul Beardow, CTO, Superscape |
| National
It is a well-known adage that ... read the article |
| by: Alan Hutton, European System Products Business Mgr, National Semiconductor, Germany |
| Configurable Memory Backplane for Enhanced Embedded Performance
Optimizing the link between the processor core, through the cache memory and memory controllers to the external memory, can enhance overall system performance by as much as 2x. Achieving enhanced system performance with no increase in processor clock speed saves power, and enables the use of lower-c... read the article |
| by: Ashley Stevens, Product Marketing Manager for Systems IP Components, ARM |
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| Design Strategies & Methodologies |
| Complex SoC Verification Designed for Reuse
There is little argument today that
when SoC designers look across their development cycle, the greatest
obstacle they see to improving efficiency and shortening time-to-market is system verification. The growing complexity of designs, their rising software content, relentless performance increa... read the article |
| by Andy Nightingale ARM and John Pierce, Cadence Design Systems, Inc |
| Parallel Software Development with Simulation Tools for MXC Architectures
Device manufacturers of converged
wireless devices are in a cut throat race
to bring advanced features like 2D and
3D graphics, mobile multimedia &
videoconferencing, multi-million pixel
cameras and localization-based services. These features are made possible by rapid advances in semicond... read the article |
| by: Filip C. Thoen, Chief Technical Officer, Virtio Corporation, and Gerardo A. Dada, Developer Marketing, Freescale Semiconductor |
| An Operating System Designed for Convergent Processing
Many of today... read the article |
| by: Stephen E. Martin, Director of Marketing, Quadros Systems, Inc |
| Productivity Unleashed: IP Meets XML: ARM, Mentor Graphics, and Philips Team Up on IP Integration Automation
System-on-chip (SoC) platforms offer
the chip industry the best chance yet
of solving the multitude of productivity and verification problems inherent in
creating SoC designs. In their initial
incarnations, platform-based designs required a substantial amount of
mundane work to transform a... read the article |
| by: Chris Lennard, ARM, John Wilson, Mentor Graphics Corp., and Marino Strik, Philips Semiconductor |
| ARM Core-Based System Verification with Virtual Prototypes
One of the challenges in verifying
processor-based embedded systems
using ARM processors and AMBA... read the article |
| by: Graham Hellestrand, CEO, VaST Systems Technology Corporation |
| Compliance and Validation of the AMBA on-Chip Bus Standard
ARM developed the AMBA Compliance Testbench (ACT) to facilitate easy reuse
of the AMBA standard. The ACT enables developers to certify that their IP complies with AMBA protocol rules. In addition, ARM also supplies a comprehensive
testbench environment alongside
the ACT that is based on Verisi... read the article |
| by: Verisity |
| Emulation Emerges as a Centerpiece in SoC Verification
Over the past decade, there has been
a dramatic increase in design complexity. This has led to challenges in reducing the overall design cycle time and aggressive time-to-market goals. As a result, the industry has identified design verification to be the most critical and formidable task in the o... read the article |
| by: Ray Abrishami, Senior Director of Engineering, Fujitsu Microelectronics America, Inc. |
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| Consumer Lifestyles |
| Low Power Design Makes Solar Power Practical for Montreal Parking System
City of Montreal (Canada) wanted
to replace thousands of older parking meters with more advanced technology--smart payment terminals that would process various types of wireless secure
e-payment. The new terminals needed
to be entirely powered by solar panels ... read the article |
| by Lawrence Ricci, Business Development, ADS |
| NetGear Builds Innovative Wireless MP3 Player Around ARM Powered
The newly released MP101
Wireless Digital Music Player from
NETGEAR Inc., is powered by the ARM9... read the article |
| by: NetGear Inc. |
| ARM OptimoDE and Phonak Combine to Advance Hearing Technology
Hearing impairment affects
approximately 10% of the population. Although people of all ages can be affected by a hearing loss, the majority
of people with impaired hearing are
over 60 years old and their hearing
loss is related to the aging process.
The Phonak Group, headquartered
in Sta... read the article |
| by: Matthew Byatt, DSP Marketing Manager, ARM |
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| Market Watch |
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Market Watch takes a different angle this issue and discusses an exciting upcoming event, the ARM Developer... read the article |
| by Markus Levy, Convergence Promotions |
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| Tools of the Trade |
| Non Intrusive, Real-time Debug with ARM RealView
From the introduction of the original ARM architecture, ARM has been developing RealView tools in parallel with ARM processors and on-chip debug solutions, ensuring a perfect complement between on- and off-chip system technology. These tools deliver the ultimate in software development solution... read the article |
| by Alistair Greenhill, Director of Marketing Development Systems, ARM |
