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| Intelligence |
| New Nucleus PLUS Running System Debugging Support Available in ARM RealView Developer Suite
Accelerated Technology, a Mentor Graphics division, has announced that a Running System Debug (RSD) enhancement supporting the ARM RealView Developer Suite has been added to the Nucleus PLUS real-time kernel. This enhancement will allow the Nucleus software application developers using the RealView ... read the article |
| by I.Q. Magazine |
| Accent, ARM and Cadence Collaborate to Improve Low-Power Design
Accent has successfully validated a lowpower design flow using the Cadence Encounter digital IC design platform and ARM... read the article |
| by: I.Q. Magazine |
| CodeSourcery
CodeSourcery, in partnership with ARM, develops improvements to the GNU Toolchain for ARM processors and provides regular, carefully tested, precompiled releases of the GNU Toolchain. CodeSourcery's releases of the GNU Toolchain support both ARM and Thumb mode compilation, and support all versions o... read the article |
| by: I.Q. Magazine |
| MPCore Rates as Highest Performance ARM11 Family Processor
ARM has recently demonstrated the first test chip of its ARM11... read the article |
| by: I.Q. Magazine |
| New RealView Tools Distributor Selected in India
ARM has appointed Ammos Software Technologies Pvt Ltd., one of the premier providers of embedded systems solutions to the embedded industry, to distribute ARM... read the article |
| by: I.Q. Magazine |
| Renesas Technology Selects ARM Processors for 3G Mobile Phone and Consumer Devices
Renesas Technology Corp has licensed the ARM1136JF-S... read the article |
| by: I.Q. Magazine |
| ARM Leads Embedded Systems Development in China
ARM is the most popular microprocessor architecture in China, based on results of a recent EDN China Embedded Systems Developer Survey.The Survey showed that 64% of the respondents are currently using the ARM architecture for their embedded system development ... read the article |
| by: I.Q. Magazine |
| Wind River VxWorks 6.1 Delivers Interoperability and Compatibility Across Software Platforms and ARM Architectures
Wind River Systems, Inc has introduced VxWorks 6.1, the newest version of the world... read the article |
| by: I.Q. Magazine |
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| Technology In-Depth |
| Improving Computational Efficiency While Reducing Power Consumption in Newer Microcontroller Generations
The best way to simultaneously meet high performance, low power, and low system cost is to combine state-of-the-art, low-power semiconductor processes with power management techniques, improved architectures, and co-processors. Since cost reduction dictates smaller die sizes, performance and power d... read the article |
| by Ata R. Khan, Director, Product Innovation, Microcontroller Product Line of Philips Semiconductors |
| Developing 3D Applications for PowerVR MBX Accelerated ARM Platforms
A number of ARM-based application processor vendors are shipping or have announced 3D accelerated devices. These devices span a broad spectrum of capabilities and performance. This article provides an insight into the complexities involved with developing high-performance 3D applications for these p... read the article |
| by: Kristof Beets, ImaginationTechnologies Ltd. |
| Automated Low-Power Implementation Methodology
This article profiles the IEM-RM that was developed through a close collaboration between Synopsys and ARM.... read the article |
| by: Phil Morris, Strategic Alliances Marketing Director, Synopsys, Inc. and Phil Watson, Implementation Environment Program Manager, ARM |
| Moving from 8- and 16-bit Microcontrollers to ARM Processors
The advent of ARM7 SoCs at aggressive price points opens up many opportunities for embedded developers who are considering the use of this part. The specific cost savings in the near and long term will be examined, as well as other factors that bear on cost reduction as a result of choosing ARM7. So... read the article |
| by: Mark Moran, Eastern Regional Manager, IAR Systems Software Inc. |
| Networking for the
Whatever other options are used for local connectivity, TCP/IP protocols are required to leverage the power of the internet backbone and today... read the article |
| by: Larry Snyder, VP Engineering, InterNiche Technologies, Inc. |
| Integrating Speech Technologies in Mobile and Embedded Devices
Adding speech interfaces to mobile devices makes it possible to create smaller, easier-to-use devices. However, a roadblock has been the high processor and memory requirements of applications that were designed for desktop use. This article introduces new software that reduces the computational work... read the article |
| by: Oleg Maleev Ph.D. and Vice President of Research & Development, Speereo Software UK |
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| Design Strategies & Methodologies |
| Data-efficient Software and Memory Architectures are Essential for Higher Performance and Lower Power
This paper describes the importance of data efficiency and the necessary methods and tools for the design of data-efficient electronic systems.... read the article |
| by Dr. Guido Arnout, President & CEO, PowerEscape, Inc. |
| Hardware/Software Modeling and Debug of Embedded ARM Processor-based Designs
Today the ever-growing demand for feature-rich multimedia-savvy, context-aware, and transmit/receive-capable embedded devices is accompanied by development cost reduction pressures from increasingly streamlined global competition. This trend has ushered in a higher reliance in design on malleable so... read the article |
| by: Dr. Bassam Tabbara, Novas Software Inc. |
| A SMP RTOS for the ARM MPCore Multiprocessor
To quench their customers... read the article |
| by: John Carbone, Express Logic |
| Debugging C-Code for ARM Processors
Every assembler instruction of an ARM processor can be executed as a conditional command. A C-compiler uses this feature to generate an optimized assembler code. During debugging of this C-code the program behavior can be interpreted in a misleading way, especially when using breakpoints and during ... read the article |
| by: Peter Sauer, Manager Product Marketing, Hitex Development Tools |
| High-Speed SoC Simulation with ARM ESL Tools
Over recent years, there has been a growing realization that the complexity of modern System on Chip (SoC) designs benefits from early integration and simulation of hardware and software. At the very earliest phases of a project, system architects and concept engineers need to be able to evaluate al... read the article |
| by: Alan Fitch, Senior Consultant, Doulos |
| Secure Software Development with the TrustZone Software API
Security and trust in consumer electronics is rapidly becoming an important factor in new device designs. The famous use case of Digital Rights Management is just one of myriad applications that require protection, including software such as VPN clients for PDAs and fraud prevention in mobile teleph... read the article |
| by: Tim Thornton, Technical Marketing Manager, ARM |
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| Consumer Lifestyles |
| New Hybrid Truck Uses Linux OS and an ARM9 Core
A maker of trucks for the military market has used embedded Linux and an embedded database in a heavy truck's fault-reporting system. The Oshkosh A3 HEMTT (heavy expanded mobility tactical truck) runs Linux on an ARM9E processor, along with the db.* database from ITTIA.
The HEMTT A3 (Heav... read the article |
| by Erik Ploof, ARM |
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| Market Watch |
| Testing Java Performance on Your Mobile Phone
Will you be one of the estimated 220 million mobile gamers expected by 2009? If so, read on because you... read the article |
| by Markus Levy, Founder and President, EEMBC |