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Software Enablement - Applied Micro X-Gene ARMv8 64-bit server showcased at Red Hat Summit

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:09:51 +0000

The server world will never be the same again! This week marks another major milestone for a market that is in a period of unprecedented innovation. Before I elaborate let's first take a look at how open source software (arguably the last server inflection point of this magnitude) changed the enterprise landscape for good. And I don...

SoC Design - Ten Things to Know About big.LITTLE

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:59:11 +0000

ARM big.LITTLE™ technology is becoming increasingly recognized within the industry as the way forward to meet the demands of higher performance with low power consumption in mobile devices. Since its launch there are now more than twelve ARM partners actively designing with big.LITTLE technology.

As the adoption of big.LITTLE processing spre...

Smart Connected Devices - Computex Taipei, Android TV, Education Tablets and maybe some time for work as well

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:12:31 +0000

The 33^rd Computex is now over and I have to admit it’s nice to get home from the heat and humidity to a much cooler UK – although it’s a bit too cold actually but then that’s a typical English weather pattern for this time of the year. Last week was my first trip to Computex (I’ve been to Taipei many times during my tenure as a Prod...

SoC Design - Mentor, Freescale, Samsung DAC talks: EDA, IoT & Mobile growth & challenges

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 08:59:56 +0000

I had the pleasure of attending some of the Design Automation Conference (DAC) keynotes in Austin on Monday and Tuesday. While some of my favorite moments were Yervant Zorian’s (50^th General Chair) promotion of the ARM Connected Community® (CC) Pavilion and his humorous introductions of the speakers and awards, I gained insight from eac...

SoC Design - Big Things Were a Kickin' at DAC in Austin with ARM & ARM Partners

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 13:41:38 +0000

Anyone who’s been to Texas, or met a Texan, knows that things are done in a bigger way in Texas. The first visit for the Design Automation Conference (DAC) to Austin was no exception: it was upbeat, challenging and fun – all in a big way. ARM and its Partners had the privilege to have a strong presence throughout DAC. Read on for an ARM ...

Multimedia - eyeSight's Gesture Recognition & Mali: Touch-Free Capabilities Optimized

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 08:21:55 +0000

Last night I was sitting comfortably in my living-room, relaxing in my recliner while watching television. My comfort was interrupted when the telephone rang in the other room, and my wife left leaving the remote-control on the table far away from me. A commercial break started, and unwilling to give-up the comfort of the armchair, I was left...

Embedded - Sensing new opportunities at Sensors Expo

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 09:03:17 +0000

Sensors Expo and Conference celebrated its 25th anniversary in Rosemont, Illinois last week and the expo floor was really buzzing with several new pavilions: MEMS, Wireless, Energy Harvesting, and Big Data & Analytics. The conference has grown in significance as MEMS devices such as accelerometers, gyroscope and magnetometer have enabled the ...

Multimedia - LEAP-ing ahead with the Mali GPU Compute Ecosystem

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 08:48:06 +0000

A couple of weeks ago I had the opportunity to deliver the keynote at a new conference in London. LEAP (Low Energy Application Parallelism) 2013 focused on energy efficient high performance computing with developers, researchers, engineers and technology managers as the target audience. Mobile GPU Computing featured prominently in the program. ...

Multimedia - ARM Mali-V500视频IP解决方案 - 借助AFBC减少内存带宽

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 08:41:24 +0000

近期，ARM^® 在 Computex 公布了全新 Mali-V500 视频 IP 解决方案，并且我们在该设备中引入了大量新技术。在此，我将就引入诸多技术特性中的一项展开讨论：ARM 帧缓冲压缩 (AFBC)。

背景

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Multimedia - Benchmarking floating-point precision in mobile GPUs - Part II

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 15:39:57 +0000

This is the second in a series of blogs about floating-point quality in GPUs, inspired by Stuart Russell’s piece over at the Youi Labs site. In part I, I claimed that a lot of programmers don’t really understand floating-point numbers, and argued that if you’re going to use it for anything remotely tricky, you’d better be prepared to ...