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| Intelligence |
| Kawasaki Microelectronics Develops ARM9-based SoC Technology
Kawasaki Microelectronics, Inc. (KME), has announced that KME has licensed two ARM9... read the article |
| by I.Q. Magazine |
| ARM Licenses ARM11 Family Cores To Matsushita Electric
ARM has licensed the ARM1176JZF-S... read the article |
| by: I.Q. Magazine |
| Samsung Unveils HDTV System-on-Chip
A system-on-a-chip (SoC) device for high definition TVs and digital set-top-boxes to meet U.S. requirements is being introduced by Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
The S5H2200 is a single-chip solution that incorporates dual HD MPEG-2 decoders, which can simultaneously provide high quality... read the article |
| by: I.Q. Magazine |
| Sharp Microelectronics Announces Two Reference Designs for Portable Media Players
Sharp Microelectronics of the Americas is introducing two new reference designs to address the growing category of portable multimedia applications, including hand held video players, digital photo albums, audio jukeboxes, and multimedia toys. These ready-to-use reference designs provide complete ha... read the article |
| by: I.Q Magazine |
| Khronos Group Announces New OpenMAX Open Standard
Semiconductor and software leaders including ARM, Motorola, Samsung Electronics, ST Microelectronics and Texas Instruments have founded a new Khronos Working Group and invite open industry participation.
The Khronos Group has announced the formation of the new OpenMAX... read the article |
| by: I.Q. Magazine |
| LSI Logic Jump Starts System Development with Synthesized ARM1136J-S and Complete RTL-based Reference Design
LSI Logic Corporation has announced the addition of the ARM1136J-STM processor core running at 425mHz to its portfolio of high-performance processor cores in GflxTM0.11-micron technology. The ARM1136J-Score provided as a hard macro, is synthesized from RTL, offers seamless ASIC design flow integrati... read the article |
| by: I.Q Magazine |
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| Technology In-Depth |
| Getting the Best from Your Cache Architecture
Over the past few years, an abundance of new ideas have arisen from the engineering community. Along with these new ideas comes the requirement for faster, more efficient systems, capable of handling large amounts of code and data. One way of addressing these issuesis with the use of a cache-based C... read the article |
| by Jerry Flake, Lauterbach |
| TrustZone: Integrated Hardware and Software Security
The rising interest in solutions for trusted computing is largely driven by the potentially severe economic consequences of failing to ensure security in embedded applications.
Ensuring security in both wired and mobile applications has become imperative. Making an embedded product safe from m... read the article |
| by: Tiago Alves and Don Felton, ARM |
| Driving the Integration of Bluetooth Wireless Technology
Fabless chip companies are a key driver of innovation in the electronics industry, and the ARM Foundry Program has been enabling more and more fabless companies to make use of ARM... read the article |
| by: Nick Flaherty, Technology Writer |
| Automated Unit Testing of Embedded ARM Applications
The performance of today's ARM microcontrollers allows for more features and functionality to be implemented in software. Unlike a hardware implementation, software appears easier to change to accommodate changing software requirements and specifications. On the other hand, the debug capabilities av... read the article |
| by: Wolfgang Schmitt, Manager, Hitex |
| Binary Instrumentation for Rapid Creation of Productivity Tools
A wide range of ARM developers from architects, to compiler writers,to software developers, need tools to understand, analyze, and simulate program behavior. This enables developers to achieve high levels of system and program correctness, performance, and power efficiency. To be usable, these tools... read the article |
| by: Brad Calder, Todd Austin, & Tim Cusac, BitRaker Inc. |
| Automotive Systems: Where Silicon Meets the Road
As automotive systems become increasingly complex and sophisticated, it... read the article |
| by: Boris Vittorelli, European Automotive Segment Manager, ARM |
| System-Level Power Management Design Issues for Handheld Wireless Devices
As the electronics world embraces wireless devices ... read the article |
| by: Andrew Girson, President, InHand Electronics |
| Minimizing Dynamic Power in Embedded Designs
The majority of techniques currently aimed at reducing static power consumption in embedded designs focus on minimizing leakage, but this will not save enough power to meet the performance demands facing future product generations. Designers need to minimize dynamic power consumption to truly satisf... read the article |
| by: Geoff Harvey, CTO, Adiabatic Logic Ltd |
| Building DSP-Free VoIP End-Points
After many years as "The Next Big Thing", VoIP (Voice-over-Internet Protocol) is becoming a vital part of the mainstream deployment of telephone services. Substantial improvements in voice quality and a profusion of broadband connections have quickly moved VoIP from its traditional place in enterpri... read the article |
| by: Mark Felice, Co-Founder and Vice President, Trinity Convergence, Inc. |
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| Design Strategies & Methodologies |
| Performance Optimization of Embedded Software for ARM Processors and AMBA Methodology-based Systems
Designing software for ARM technology-based systems requires verifying that it functions correctly with the hardware, but also that the performance is optimized for both the processor core and the memory architecture subsystem in which it is running. Ideally, all of this should bed one very early in... read the article |
| by Bart Weuts, Sr. Manager, IP and Methodology, CoWare, Inc. |
| The ABC
The ability to put a full System on Chip -- including software --is now available with the Fabs growing ability to combine flash memory and conventional logic on the same die. System on Chip (SoC) is every production manager... read the article |
| by: Paul Edwards, President, Eddy Solutions |
| Reducing AMBA
To meet increasing time-to-marketpressures, designers have been using more intellectual property (IP) to reduce the amount of new code that needs tobe created for the design. Additionally, on-chip bus standards such as the AMBA methodology have been widely adopted, providing designers with a standar... read the article |
| by: John Swanson, Synopsys |
| Pardon the Interruption: Two Approaches to RTOS Interrupt Architectures
While both Segmented and Unified Interrupt Architecture RTOSs for ARM core-based designs enable deterministic real-time management of an embedded system, there are significant differences between them with regard to the efficiency and simplicity of the resulting system.
This article evaluates ... read the article |
| by: William E. Lamie, Co-Founder and CEO, Express Logic, Inc. |
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| Consumer Lifestyles |
| Convergence of ARM Technologies to Create a Better Reality
As computer speed and power increase, dramatic imaging technologies are used to create "virtual reality" we see in video games or movie CGI effects. This "virtual" world is good for entertainment and training simulators, but "real-world" applications often have different requirements. For more than ... read the article |
| by Lawrence Ricci, Business Development, ADS |
| Lightweight Wireless Glove Used for Security and Emergency Search and Rescue Operations
Natural Disasters happen every day around the world. Some are observed at a distance, secured from any harm, while others destroy villages, towns, cities and acres of vital land. To immediately secure and save lives in the midst of disaster or immediately following is a daunting task, and one that r... read the article |
| by: Markus Levy and NetworkAnatomy |
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| Market Watch |
| The Challenges of Standardized Power Measurements
Power has become one of the more significant topics in the embedded world, and typically, this is regardless of the application. Members within EEMBC are collectively devising a standardized methodology to measure powerand energy for an embedded processor. The goal is to add anenergy metric to its p... read the article |
| by Markus Levy, Founder and President, EEMBC |
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| Tools of the Trade |
| TechOnLine
When design engineers talk about the next 32-bit wave (as featured inIQ vol 2, issue 2, 2003) they mean the integration of ARM7 cores into standard 32-bit processors. Since the program... read the article |
| by Brian Seymour, CTO, TechOnLine |
| Engineering the Right Career
Like any company that has a core business built on intellectual property, attracting and retaining the best people is central to ARM... read the article |
| by: Bill Parsons, Executive Vice President HR, ARM |
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| by: I.Q. Magazine |
