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| Intelligence |
| Texas Instruments and ARM Accelerate Deployment of Secure Applications on Mobile Devices
Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) and ARM have announced a collaboration to provide a unified mobile security technology to the industry, enabling mobile security market applications and services with a standard-based, interoperable, extensible framework. As part of this effort, TI is integrating ... read the article |
| by I.Q. Magazine |
| ARM and TSMC Sign Long-Term Physical IP Agreement for 65- and 45-Nanometer Technologies
ARM and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) have agreed to extend the companies... read the article |
| by: I.Q. Magazine |
| Chip Industry
More than ten semiconductor companies including Broadcom Corporation, Royal Philips Electronics and Samsung are integrating ARM... read the article |
| by: I.Q. Magazine |
| American Arium HS-1000 Supports ETM Trace
The Arium HS-1000 offers full instruction set support for ARM7, ARM9, ARM11, Intel XScale, and TI OMAP processor cores and features a trace depth of 256 MByte with an industry-leading half-clock capture rate of 680 MHz. The half-clock trace capture rate relates to the maximum device core clock speed... read the article |
| by: I.Q. Magazine |
| ARM Launches RealView Development Suite 3.0 for End-to-End Pre-Silicon Development
With the release of the RealView... read the article |
| by: I.Q. Magazine |
| UWB Chip Providers Incorporate ARM Processor Technology
Industry-leading UWB chip and hardware companies Alereon, Focus Enhancements, Mindtree Consulting, Pulse~LINK and Staccato Communications are integrating ARM9... read the article |
| by: I.Q. Magazine |
| IAR Website Provides ARM MCU Support
The new IAR website, SevensAndNines.com, has just been launched to provide an online user community and resource site for ARM developers. SevensAndNines.com is a web portal focused on providing information and resources for ARM MCU development. It is a powerful tool that allows the user to find info... read the article |
| by: I.Q. Magazine |
| ARM RealView Microcontroller Development Kit Supports Stellaris Family
The RealView... read the article |
| by: I.Q. Magazine |
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| Technology In-Depth |
| The DaVinci Effect: Digital Video Without Complexity
With the accessibility of cost-effective
silicon, digital video will quickly become
a product-differentiating feature across
the consumer and embedded electronics
markets. To stay competitive, developers
will need to be able to introduce digital
video capabilities to their designs as
quickly ... read the article |
| by Rishi Bhattacharya, TI, and Frank Breeze, MPC Data |
| System Solutions for a Baseband SoC
The progression of cellular modem technology is a great example of the increasing complexity of system-on-chip design, and the market pressure for high quality products to be delivered to aggressive deadlines. This presents challenges across many areas: meeting performance demands while minimizing s... read the article |
| by: Dominic Pajak, Processors Division, ARM |
| Metal Programmable Cell Fabric ASICs Bridge the FPGA Gap
Standard product ARM processors in combination with low-cost FPGAs have eroded ASIC market share over the past decade. Given their high NRE (non-recurring engineering) costs and long time-to-market, ASICS have not been able to compete with the flexibility and falling prices of FPGAs.
A ... read the article |
| by: Jay Johnson, ASIC Marketing Director, Atmel Corporation |
| Multi ARM Processor Systems for Industrial Use
Market requirements increasingly demand powerful solutions but always with the constraint that they may not exceed the cost limits of the target markets. When attempting to balance these apparently conflicting requirements it is important to take a holistic view and look at the "total system" aspect... read the article |
| by: Jeff McKeown, Consultant, MA Associates, and Hans Carper, EVP of Marketing, DualCore |
| Meeting the High-Speed Serial Link Challenge
The electronics industry is in the midst of a dramatic shift away from traditional parallel communication standards and towards new, high-speed serial interface technologies. This transformation is affecting everyone in the design chain and impacts design requirements for ICs, packages, and boards a... read the article |
| by: Gary Ruggles, Ph.D. Director, Business Development, Physical IP, ARM |
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| Design Strategies & Methodologies |
| Enabling Rapid Adoption of the AMBA 3 AXI Protocol-based Design
To successfully develop an AMBA... read the article |
| by Mick Posner, Synopsys, Inc. |
| Delivering Developer Productivity Gains and Reduced Development Cycles
Texas Instruments (TI), headquartered in Dallas, is the world leader in wireless technology with operations in more than 25 countries. Among its many products, the company provides innovative DSP and analog technologies to meet real-world signal processing requirements.
TI... read the article |
| by: Filip Thoen, Virtio |
| Silicon Design Chain Extends Low-Power Design Collaboration
The need to save power-while maintaining performance goals at 90- and 65 nanometers creates challenges in design and test that necessitate deep collaboration among key members of the design chain-foundries, EDA companies, and IP suppliers. In the second phase of the power management methodology, TSM... read the article |
| by: George Kuo, Cadence |
| System-level Validation Increases Design Productivity and Saves Errors
As the complexity of system-on-chip (SoC) devices rises to include scores, in some cases hundreds, of distinct blocks, system validation becomes a critical concern. A variety of techniques have emerged to help designers verify that individual blocks of a device meet performance specifications, but v... read the article |
| by: Bill Chown, System-level Engineering Division, Mentor Graphics |
| Virtual ARM
The mobile and handheld wireless industry is one of the fastest growing and fastest evolving application areas in electronics. There are many factors driving this growth and evolution, including the attractiveness of cellular technology in areas without traditional infrastructure and landlines, the ... read the article |
| by: Graham Hellestrand, Chief of Technology and Strategy, VaST Systems Technology |
| Getting Practical with ESL Design Methodologies
ESL is emerging as viable ... read the article |
| by: Christopher Lennard, Strategic Marketing Director ARM, and Matthew Bellantoni, Product Marketing Manager, Carbon Design Systems |
| Streamlining SoC Design from ESL to GDSII
Increasing software content, complex interfaces, reduced time-to-market, rising chip costs and shrinking geometries all add to the complexity of developing the products that consumers demand today.
This article presents the concept-to-silicon flow being developed by ARM and Synopsys usi... read the article |
| by: Phil Morris, Synopsys, Inc. |
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| Consumer Lifestyles |
| Philips ARM Design Contest 2005 Winners
The Philips ARM Design Contest 2005 gave designers the opportunity to showcase their design skills as well as a myriad of applications made possible by the LPC213x microcontroller family. Participants from around the world accepted the challenge to build original, innovative projects. Each project... read the article |
| by Edited by Glenn ImObersteg, Convergence Promotions |
| Eurotech Wrist Wearable Personal Computer
The Eurotech WWPC (Wrist-Worn Personal Computer) employs the "user-centric ubiquitous computing" concept, where information can be shared and services can be accessed anywhere. With the WWPC Eurotech has integrated all the power and capabilities that users have come to expect from a full size PC ins... read the article |
| by: Roberto Turchi, Marketing & Sales Manager, Wearable Computers, EuroTech S.p.A. |
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| Market Watch |
| Buying an ARM Device is Only Three Clicks Away
The need for the Embedded Developer website is a testimony to the growing number of vendors and competing microcontroller devices based on ARM processor technology. This online tool benefits the device manufacturer and designers because it puts everyone on a level playing field by providing immediat... read the article |
| by Markus Levy, Founder and President, EEMBC |
