Do More, Earlier

By Jason Andrews - 29 Sep, 2016 - Comments: 0

The ARM Cortex-R52 processor is the most advanced processor for functional safety and the first implementation of the ARMv8-R architecture. Along with the announcement of the Cortex-R52, ARM offers a number of development tools to help partners speed up their path to market. This is especially helpful for a new architecture which highlights software separation for safety and security. This arti... » read more

New Ways To Scale Performance

By Nigel Stephens - 25 Aug, 2016 - Comments: 0

Immense amounts of data are being collected today in areas such as meteorology, geology, astronomy, quantum physics, fluid dynamics, and pharmaceutical research. Exascale computing (the execution of a billion billion floating point operations, or exaFLOPs, per second) is the target that many HPC systems aspire to over the next 5 to 10 years. In addition, advances in data analytics and areas su... » read more

Why Instrumentation Isn’t Optional

By Matt Sealey - 28 Jul, 2016 - Comments: 0

When writing code it is often useful to add informational statements that give an insight into control flow and data management as well as aiding in observation of the actual code at runtime. As such, instrumentation is an important component of code running on a live system. The proliferation of "printf" debug statements, whereby data is output to a console, is testament to this. Sending te... » read more

Digging Into Trace Data

By Matt Sealey - 30 Jun, 2016 - Comments: 1

In previous blogs we covered an introduction to System Trace Macrocell (STM) concepts and terminology, and the STM Programmers' model with an example of how to generate efficient trace data. Once the STM is generating a trace stream, we may wish to view it within our Debugger. DS-5 implements an "Events View," which serves this purpose. Configuring your target First, it is necessary to... » read more

Cooperation Instead Of Competition

By Bill Neifert - 03 Jun, 2016 - Comments: 0

I spent more than 20 years working in EDA and managed to do so without ever working for one of the big three. Big EDA companies were always the competition. Oh sure, you’d partner with them strategically if you could, but always keeping in mind that little fish swimming with big fish often end up being eaten. That all changed seven months ago when ARM acquired Carbon’s technology and tea... » read more

Better Heterogeneous CPU Designs

By Ronan Synnott - 28 Apr, 2016 - Comments: 0

The trend toward heterogeneous CPU designs is growing. Case in point: The NXP i.MX7 family of devices have such a design. In this blog, I will discuss the (simple) steps necessary to get the most out of i.MX7 using the ARM Development Studio, more commonly known as DS-5, but the information applies to most similar systems. Compiling code depends greatly on the use case. Within DS-5, there... » read more

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