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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...

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. ...

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

一部中价位智能手机，如果没有内置摄像头、不具备 YouT...

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 ...

Prototyping and Early Driver Development on Mali GPUs on FPGA: A Case Study

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 16:03:20 +0000

Prototyping large SoCs on FPGA platforms can be a daunting experience, due to the complexity of partitioning the design across multiple FPGAs. In addition, it tends to be expensive and fraught with risk, and deliver overall speeds too slow to run an operating system and get meaningful performance data.

In this blog I explain the approach to...

ARM Mali家族的新分支：Mali-V500视频IP解决方案

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 08:46:21 +0000

几周前，我和两个女儿（一个 7 岁，一个 10 岁）坐在一块儿，教她们如何使用 Scratch 在 PC 上编程。两周后，当冰箱全部清空后，我的小女儿制作了一个由香蕉、胡萝卜和勺子组成的钢琴，而我的大女儿则用真的水果制作了一个切水果电脑游戏。和每一位骄傲的父�...

Mali-T622 - 为中价位主流移动设备带来Full Profile GPU计算

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 13:20:01 +0000

过去两年来，我们在这些博客中介绍了多种应用，其中，Mali^TM-T600 系列能通过将应用中的计算密集型部分转移给图形处理器 GPU，其余部分继续在 CPU 上运行，来提高系统性能。在今年的 COMPUTEX 上，我们将发布强大的 ARM^® Cortex^®-A12、Mali-T622 和 Mali-V500 组合�...

Mid-range smartphones get a graphics and video lift with new Mali products

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 08:58:10 +0000

Smartphones continue to evolve and diversify - when I look at the latest selection of phones reaching the market, the features appearing in the top range of smartphones could not have been imagined just a few years ago. As consumers become more familiar with what a smartphone now can do, the demand for exciting features has increased in a wider...

Mali-V500 video processor: reducing memory bandwidth with AFBC

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 09:45:00 +0000

ARM’s new video processor was publicly launched at Computex recently and we introduced a bunch of new technology in that device. Here I’d like to discuss just one of these new features: ARM® Frame Buffer Compression (AFBC).

The background
A mid-range smartphone which does not have a built-in camera, instant YouTube access, video re...

Mali-T622 - Bringing Full Profile GPU Compute to mid-range devices

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 04:11:00 +0000

Over the last two years we have described several applications in these blogs for which the Mali^TM-T600 series increased system performance by offloading compute-intensive portions of the application to the GPU, while the remainder was still running on the CPU. At COMPUTEX this year we are launching the powerful combination of ARM^® Cort...