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Posts tagged with 'ARM'

Video

Posted Apr 20, 2012, by Colin Walls

I am not really sure that I should be promoting this, but here goes … When I was at ESC the other week, I made the mistake of not hiding or looking frantically busy at some point. The result was that I got interviewed by some guys from ARM about the Stella robot that we were showing and the Nucleus RTOS that powers her. It has now been posted on YouTube. I do not think that this one is going … Read More

Tags: Nucleus, ARM

Instant Replay for Debugging SoC Level Simulations

Posted Dec 13, 2011, by Mark Olen

Instant Replay Offers Multiple Views at Any Speed If you’ve watched any professional sporting event on television lately, you’ve seen the pressure put on referees and umpires.  They have to make split-second decisions in real-time, having viewed ultra-high-speed action just a single time.  But watching at home on television, we get the luxury of viewing multiple replays of events in question … Read More

Tags: Verification, testbench, Cortex, Functional Verification, ARM, SoC Level Verification, Software as a Testbench, SoC

GENIVI development strategy requires competitors to cooperate

Posted Nov 10, 2011, by John Day

The increasing complexity of cars has taught automakers the value of cooperating with competitors on technology that customers won’t see and don’t care about but would be prohibitively expensive for a single automaker to develop in-house. Automakers and suppliers formed the GENIVI Alliance, for example, to create an open source (Linux-based) development platform for in-vehicle infotainment, facilitating … Read More

Tags: Linux, Jaguar Land Rover, Magneti Marelli, XS Embedded, ARM, PSA Peugeot Citroën, QNX, Renault, Android, Visteon, Mentor Graphics, in-vehicle infotainment, Microltron, intel, Microsoft, Delphi, MontaVista Software, Genivi Alliance

ARM Development Conference

Posted Jul 4, 2011, by Colin Walls

Although readers in the US may think that it is a holiday today – and I hope you have a good one – it is just another regular Monday in Europe. Actually, as the Americans are celebrating getting rid of the Brits, maybe we should join in. I am traveling today to an ARM Development Conference in Stuttgart, Germany, which I am sure will be an interesting event. I actually find it curious that … Read More

Tags: MCAPI, ARM

DAC: 9th ESL Symposium

Posted May 16, 2011, by Thomas Bollaert

If you are going to DAC this year, then you must attend the 9th Annual ESL Symposium and not just because there is free lunch or you need the new Apple iPad 2. This year, Wally Rhines will moderate a very impressive panel line-up: Gadi Singer - Intel Vice President, Intel Architecture Group General Manager, System-on-Chip Enabling Group John Goodenough - ARM Vice President of Design Technology and … Read More

Tags: User Testimonial, Freescale, STMicroelectronics, High-Level Synthesis, esl, DAC, intel, ARM

ARM Tech Con 2010

Posted Nov 15, 2010, by Colin Walls

Last week I attended the ARM Technical Conference in Santa Clara, California. I am not sure how many years this event has been running, but it seems to be going from strength to strength. There was a change to the management company this year, but the event format was basically the same: a 3 day multiple-stream technical conference, with a selection of keynotes and an associated exhibition area. Obviously, … Read More

Tags: Low Power, User Interface, MCAPI, ARM, Multicore, Android

jumping in with both feet

Posted Sep 11, 2010, by Hollis Blanchard

ARM Ltd recently unveiled the virtualization capabilities in ARMv7-A, and they are impressive. Taking a step back though, here’s what impresses me the most: these guys jumped in with both feet. Consider for a moment the very measured approach Intel took with their virtualization extensions to the x86 architecture. They started by adding privilege modes beyond the traditional “ring” model. A later implementation … Read More

Tags: Virtualization, ARM

Working together for the common good

Posted Mar 25, 2010, by John Day

It’s nice to see that some groups can work together for the common good. I’m thinking of the companies participating in the GENIVI Alliance. BMW, Delphi, General Motors, Intel, Magneti Marelli, PSA Peugeot Citroën, Visteon, and Wind River formed the Alliance a year ago to create an open source in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) reference platform. The initial version of the platform was released just nine … Read More

Tags: Magneti Marelli, PSA Peugeot Citroën, Delphi, ARM, Visteon, Graham Smethurst, Will Tu, in-vehicle infotainment, General Motors, Wind River, Genivi Alliance

Porting Problems

Posted Sep 28, 2009, by Russ Klein

They say one of the first steps to fixing a problem is to acknowledge that you have one. Hi, I’m Russ, and I have a porting problem. If you work on software in the embedded world, you probably have a porting problem, too. Your code may be an embedded application, drivers, or diagnostics, but at some point the code probably started out on a desktop machine of some sort. When you moved it to run on … Read More

Tags: Debug, ARM

Guilty Pleasures

Posted Sep 16, 2009, by Russ Klein

You know you shouldn’t, but you do. I do. We all do. Though we don’t like to admit it. Yes, I use print statements to debug my code. And I work on debug tools for programmers and hardware engineers. I guess that makes me even guiltier. Despite having a plethora of debugging tools and scripting languages, I’ll admit it - one of the first things I do to try to get a handle on a bug is to throw in a … Read More

Tags: Debug, ARM