SoC Design Syndication Thu, 23 Feb 2012 20:50:02 +0000 webmaster@arm.com (ARM Community) IP.Blog 60 http://blogs.arm.com/soc-design/669-getting-to-market-quicker-with-a-pop/ Find out more about what ARM’s Processor Optimization Pack (POP) is and its advantages.

Like many people who work in high tech, from time to time I’ve had trouble explaining my profession to family and friends. Unless you are pretty tech savvy it is hard to understand exactly what a SoC engineer does everyday. The other day I was ...]]> Thu, 23 Feb 2012 20:18:23 +0000 http://blogs.arm.com/soc-design/669-getting-to-market-quicker-with-a-pop/ http://blogs.arm.com/soc-design/659-streamlining-the-migration-to-an-arm-processor-based-platform/ Now available design strategies and documentation to ease the migration to an ARM platform - From one programmer to another.

You could say I’m an “Acorn boy” – I cut my programming teeth on personal computers from Acorn in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s. All were based around the 6502 and, perhaps because, it’s where I started,...]]> Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:30:28 +0000 http://blogs.arm.com/soc-design/659-streamlining-the-migration-to-an-arm-processor-based-platform/ http://blogs.arm.com/soc-design/649-using-cache-coherency-to-verify-the-amba4-protocol/ Jasper User Group Meeting was held on November 8 & 9 and was full of presentations on the diverse ways that users are applying formal techniques – some in areas where never before thought possible. Paul Martin from ARM was one of those users who presented on this topic. ARM discussed how modern multi-core processors now require much ...]]> Tue, 03 Jan 2012 19:17:00 +0000 http://blogs.arm.com/soc-design/649-using-cache-coherency-to-verify-the-amba4-protocol/ http://blogs.arm.com/soc-design/651-finfet-has-its-time-finally-come-for-a-sub-20nm-3d-device/ Tri-gate or Fin-FET devices have been scrutinized for about 10 years and are considered a viable solution only when conventional planar MOS devices are not able to deliver the expected performance while keeping a low enough leakage current. When scaling down the gate length it is increasingly difficult to control the vertical electric field bet...]]> Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:34:00 +0000 http://blogs.arm.com/soc-design/651-finfet-has-its-time-finally-come-for-a-sub-20nm-3d-device/ http://blogs.arm.com/soc-design/640-there%e2%80%99s-more-to-%e2%80%9clow%e2%80%9d-in-low-vdd-than-meets-the-eye/ Low VDD in the context of a low power supply being connected to my Integrated Circuit of Choice. It does not necessarily imply low power or low energy which is where I think we, in the IP business n...]]> Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:26:00 +0000 http://blogs.arm.com/soc-design/640-there%e2%80%99s-more-to-%e2%80%9clow%e2%80%9d-in-low-vdd-than-meets-the-eye/ http://blogs.arm.com/soc-design/616-%e5%b0%86%e5%a4%a7%e5%b0%8f%e8%ae%a1%e7%ae%97%e5%bc%95%e6%93%8e%e5%ae%8c%e7%be%8e%e5%9c%b0%e6%95%b4%e5%90%88%e5%9c%a8-%e8%b5%b7-arm-cortex-a7/ 今天，ARM Cortex-A7 的隆重推出…标志着 big.Little 处理架构的最终实现！

我驾驶着一辆节能型的本田飞度行驶在 20 英里的市区上班途中。有时我会突发奇想，希望在自己的座驾上安装一个更快的引擎，但大部分时间我还是对自己驾驶的节能车辆感到很满意...]]> Thu, 17 Nov 2011 15:41:00 +0000 http://blogs.arm.com/soc-design/616-%e5%b0%86%e5%a4%a7%e5%b0%8f%e8%ae%a1%e7%ae%97%e5%bc%95%e6%93%8e%e5%ae%8c%e7%be%8e%e5%9c%b0%e6%95%b4%e5%90%88%e5%9c%a8-%e8%b5%b7-arm-cortex-a7/ http://blogs.arm.com/soc-design/627-biglittle-and-amba-4-ace-keep-your-cache-warm-and-avoid-flushes/ AMBA® 4 ACE™ is a fundamental technology supporting ARM’s big.LITTLE processing. In case you missed the announcements, the big.LITTLE technology offers an innovative way to run the ‘always on’ tasks on the highly efficient Cortex™-A7 processor...]]> Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:32:33 +0000 http://blogs.arm.com/soc-design/627-biglittle-and-amba-4-ace-keep-your-cache-warm-and-avoid-flushes/ http://blogs.arm.com/soc-design/606-energy-efficiency-and-air-conditioning-part-2-arm-cortex-a7/ ARM Cortex-A7 processor…It's all about right-sized equipment.
In Part 1 of this blog we saw how right-sizing of air conditioning is vitally important because it performs three different functions simultaneously: Cooling, dehumidification and ventilation. Increases in efficiency could be obtained by separating out these three functions ...]]> Tue, 25 Oct 2011 20:35:23 +0000 http://blogs.arm.com/soc-design/606-energy-efficiency-and-air-conditioning-part-2-arm-cortex-a7/ http://blogs.arm.com/soc-design/604-simplifying-socs-with-hard-macros-new-solutions-for-old-problems/ TSMC Open Innovation Platform (OIP) forum in San Jose this week Mike Inglis, the General Manager of the Processor Division at ARM, presented a keynote speech succinctly titled “Enabling Smart System Design Through Collaboration, Optimization and Scalability”. This presentation outlined many of the challenges faced by silicon develo...]]> Thu, 20 Oct 2011 19:15:00 +0000 http://blogs.arm.com/soc-design/604-simplifying-socs-with-hard-macros-new-solutions-for-old-problems/ http://blogs.arm.com/soc-design/598-combining-large-and-small-compute-engines-arm-cortex-a7/ ARM Cortex-A7 processor was announced…the power of big.Little processing is finally realized!

I drive a Honda Fit, mainly for the fuel efficiency, on a 20 mile city street commute. Sometimes I wish my car had a faster engine, but most of the time I’m happy to drive for high gas mileage. But I have to say I was a relucta...]]> Wed, 19 Oct 2011 16:07:00 +0000 http://blogs.arm.com/soc-design/598-combining-large-and-small-compute-engines-arm-cortex-a7/