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| Intelligence |
| First Batch of China 3G Commercial Trial Handsets are All ARM Powered
China Mobile launched its first batch of ARM926EJ-S™ processor-based TD-SCDMA handsets ... read the article |
| LuminaryMicro Wins 2008 Frost & Sullivan Global Entrepreneurial Company of the Year Award
Based on its recent analysis of the world microcontrollers market, Frost & Sullivan recognized Luminary Micro, Inc. with the 2008 Global Frost & Sullivan Entrepreneurial Company Award this April.... read the article |
| NXP Wins EDN’s 18thAnnual Inovation Award for Microcontrollers and Cores
The LPC2478 ARM-based microcontroller from NXP Semiconductors has won the 18th Annual Innovation Award for Microcon-trollers and Cores... read the article |
| ARM Joins Synplicity’s ReadyIP Program
ARM IP is now available through Synplicity’s ReadyIP Program. The ReadyIP program facilitates a vendor-independent design flow using Synplicity’s industry standard FPGA synthesis and system design environments... read the article |
| ARM andMindspeed Address Next Generation Home Gateways with Multiprocessing Technology
ARM and Mindspeed Technologies have announced an ongoing collaboration designed to address the needs of broadband service providers delivering triple- (voice, data, video) and quad-play (+ cellular) applications to homes and small businesses.... read the article |
| What’s the Buzz on IQ Online?
IQ Online will be catching up with Nathan Bozeman, Director Product Marketing at ARM, to take an in-depth look at the ARM Physical IP division (PIPD). ... read the article |
| eSol Releases eT-Kernel/Extended for Freescale i.MX31
eSOL has announced availability of the eT-Kernel/Extended realtime operating system (RTOS) coupled with the eBinder integrated development environment (IDE) for the i.MX31 multimedia applications processor from Freescale.... read the article |
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| Technology In-Depth |
| Managing Power Consumption in Your ARM Core-Based Designs
LAUTERBACH’S intergrated measurement solution for energy analysis gives developers a powerful, easy-to-use tool for detecting the relationship between program code and its current/power consumption. ... read the article |
| by Elmar Stahleder, Lauterbach Datentechnik GmbH |
| Bluetooth:The Common Denominator for All WirelessConnectivity Combo Products
This article assesses the current status and future prospect of different wireless combo chipset solutions, including the use case and applications, key challenge in form of coexistence and how intellectual property players can support the semiconductor players to achieve this convergence.... read the article |
| by: Franz Dugand, Wipro-NewLogic |
| High Speed and Low Power
ARM offers Hard Macro Implementations of its most popular embedded processors, rendering up to 2x the speed, or 20% less power!... read the article |
| by: Werner Goertz, ARM, and Mike Gehl, Intrinsity |
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| Design Strategies & Methodologies |
| Advanced Debug Methods for DSM Driven Testbenches
ARM design simulation models are an excellent choice for SoC functional verification. Since they’re compiled from the core’s RTL, they’re very accurate and often used for sign-off simulation. Tests written in C or assembly execute on the DSM and drive bus-cycles into the design in a mann... read the article |
| by Jim Kenney, Mentor Graphics |
| Jumpstarting ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore Processor-Based SoC Designs with Talus
System-on-Chip (SoC) design starts that embed different configurations of the ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore processor will require production proven IC implementation tools and reference methodologies that address full automation, designer productivity and turnaround time, while not compromising on meeting p... read the article |
| by: Stuart Riches, ARM, and Vasu Madabushi, Magma Design Automation |
| Implementing a Low-power Reference Flow for an Advanced Microprocessor
Low-power is demanded by several handheld applications. ARM is the leading provider of handheld processor solutions. Cadence is the leader in providing tools to design low power chips. In this paper, we outline a reference flow for designing an advanced low-power SoC based on the leading ARM 1176 mi... read the article |
| by: Anand Iyer and Susan Runowicz-Smith, Cadence Design Systems |
| Demand Paging on Symbian OS
As ARM-based mobile phones become increasingly feature-rich, so the demand on system resources increases. One important commodity is physical RAM, which contributes significantly to the bill of materials (BOM) of a device. Demand paging (DP) involves making the contents of memory available to a prog... read the article |
| by: Dan Handley, System Architect, Symbian Software Ltd. |
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| Consumer Lifestyles |
| Epoq Wrist Watch Phone
The specification for the Epoq EGP-WP98B sounds like something Q would have dreamt up for Mr Bond. This avant garde design watch is, on closer inspection, however, the world’s first wrist-worn mobile phone running Windows OS, according to its developer.The ARM powered Epoq EGP-WP98B packs in so ... read the article |
| by Jan howell, ARM IQ Online |
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| Special MCUs Section |
| Special EDA Solutions Guide
EDA SOLUTIONS GUIDE 2008 -- Asuro Inc., Powercentric -- Barco Silex, Barco Silex Design Services -- HCL Technologies Ltd., FPGA/ASIC/VLSI/ESL/Cell Library Design services, Post Silicon Validation/IP Cores -- Mentor Graphics Corporation, Questa Codelink -- Mentor Graphics Corporation, Seamless HW/SW ... read the article |
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| Special ARM-Enabled Home Section |
| The ARM Powered Digital Home: ARM and the Set-Top Box
The number of consumer electronics devices in the home is constantly increasing. This, along with the increasing cost of energy and the desire to reduce carbon footprint, is driving the requirement for reduction in power consumption for both wireless and tethered applications. ARM is already well re... read the article |
| by Ashley Stevens and Jim Wallace, ARM |
| ARM Powered Reference Designs for the Digital Home
As an ARM Approved Design Center for both hardware and software, Tata Elxsi Limited combines domain knowledge and embedded product development expertise with ARM® processors, tools and development techniques to assist silicon vendors and OEMs with SoC design and software development and porting. ... read the article |
| by: Anil K Ramachandran, Tata Elxsi |
| System and Memory Architectures for High-Definition Consumer Electronics
High-definition content is driving the need for high performance in today’s consumer electronics. Digital TVs, set-top boxes, video players and even mobile phones now require support for streaming video. Delivering this functionality at consumer price points is placing high demands on system arc... read the article |
| by: Michael Ching, Alok Gupta, Steven Woo, Stefan Tamme, Rambus, Inc., and Ashley Stevens and Jim Wallace, ARM |
| Throw Away Your CD Collection? Yes,with HD-AAC Audio Codecs on ARM CPUs
Featuring music encoding with quality beyond CDs, plus iPod and mobile phone compatibility, the HD-AAC codec offers a new way of storing, streaming and distributing music on portable devices, within the connected home and through online music stores, replacing the physical media CD. Unifying MPEG-4 ... read the article |
| by: Robert Bleidt and Jan Nordmann, Fraunhofer USA |
| Designing Solutions for the Home with the Cortex-A8
As product categories converge, devices in the home are increasingly required to supply more performance and handle an increasing number of tasks. The ARM Cortex-A8 processor with NEON media processing extensions provides a high-performance target with special focus on media applications, enhanced s... read the article |
| by: Karl Wealton, ARM |
| Home Automation Comes of Age
Current home networks often include both wired and wireless systems that control household such devices as security systems, lighting, HVAC, home telecare applications and home entertainment systems. There are a number of home-networking solutions on the market, both proprietary and standards based... read the article |
| by: Ravi Sharma, Ember Corporation |
| A Global Framework for Home Interoperability: Saving Resources While Growing the Market
One of the more interesting things in the digital home is the rate at which systems and applications are evolving to provide new services. Huge advances are being made. In the A/V sphere, in social networking, communications and computing, security, health care and energy, the pervasive and embedded... read the article |
| by: Stephen Pattenden, Telemetry Assoc. |
| Interacting with Your Television: How Great Can it Get?
As more and more content becomes available, the user interface becomes even more important for a television service. How do viewers easily find the content they want to watch? Hardware and software both play a key role in delivering a great user interface, and the challenge for operators, especially... read the article |
| by: Ian Harris, NDS Limited |
| The Future of Open Cable Systems: Conditional Access Migrates to DCAS
The United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has mandated a more open cable television system that would free the consumer from having to purchase or lease a set-top box (STB) from a single manufacturer or cable system operator. One of the problems that needed to be addressed was the nu... read the article |
| by: Mike Borza and Al Hawtin, Elliptic Semiconductor |
