Software Enablement

Comparison of JavaScript execution modes of the WebKit browser engine

Wed, 08 May 2013 18:15:01 +0000

Nowadays web browsers are among the most widely used software tools. You can find them being used everywhere on devices ranging from phones and tablets to personal computers. The heart of all browsers is a browser engine. We, at the Department of Software Engineering, University of Szeged, Hungary, are long time contributors of a well-known...

New Platform Bring-Up with ARM® Development Studio 5 (DS-5™)

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 09:55:00 +0000

I am an FAE at ARM, and part of my job is to support users bringing up new silicon and hardware platforms, so that they can start to develop software on them. For this task, I use the ARM DSTREAM^™ debug and trace unit and the various bring-up utilities provided with the DS-5 toolchain, which enable the creation of device support in the DS-...

如何利用全志安卓4.0 HDMI Dongle进行ARM DS-5 Streamline性能分析

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 10:50:25 +0000

作为 ARM^® DS-5™ 工具链的一部分， ARM DS-5 Streamline 性能分析器对于开发者来说，是一款极其有用的用于 Linux 和 Android 平台的系统级性能分析、优化工具。利用 Streamline 性能分析仪，平台和应用开发者很容易减轻软件性能瓶颈、提高代码并行处理能力、扩展�...

DS-5 Streamline Performance Analyzer on Allwinner Android 4.0 HDMI Dongle

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 16:58:50 +0000

ARM^® DS-5^TM Streamline Performance Analyzer, part of the ARM DS-5 toolchain, is an useful tool for developers doing system level software optimization for ARM Linux and Androidplatforms. Streamline makes it easy for platform and app developers to mitigate performance bottlenecks, improve code parallelization, extend battery life, and en...

Spotlight on the Linux Software Ecosystem - openSUSE

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 20:10:24 +0000

Continuing my “Spotlight on the Linux software Ecosystem”, this time I am going to cover the openSUSE Project.

openSUSE is not only one of the major Linux distributions, but is also one of the oldest distributions tracing its history back to 1996 when it was called S.u.S.E. (an acronym for Software und System Entwicklung); it is also t...

ARM Cortex-A Processors and GCC Command Lines

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 14:52:00 +0000

The GNU Compiler Collection’s (GCC) command line options for ARM processors were originally designed many years ago when the list of available processors and variants was much shorter than it is today. As the ARM architecture has evolved, the options needed to get the best code out of the GCC have also changed, but attempts have been made to e...

Linux hwmon, power management and ARM DS-5 Streamline

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 16:23:17 +0000

The hwmon is a generic Linux kernel subsystem, providing access to hardware monitoring components like temperature or voltage/current sensors. Traditionally interfaced via external buses like I2C, many new SOCs have internal sensors ensuring better accuracy of the result. Version 3.8 of the kernel comes with over 100 drivers for different...

Software migration challenges? With the right tool it’s a Breeze...

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 15:40:00 +0000

As new ARM platforms such as micro-servers hit the market and hyper-scale computing users queue up to take advantage of the incredible 90% power and space savings^[1] that these packages offer, it is surprisingly easy to migrate your applications from x86 to ARM.

A lot of the hard work has been done for you already - most of your tools will...

Indoo.rs uses ARM’s Ne10 Library: Extends indoor LBS performance lead

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 16:38:00 +0000

Indoo.rs recently entered into a partnership with ARM, the awesome producer of processor intellectual property (IP). Why is this significant? Let me start from the beginning:

We have explained some of the technical challenges in providing real-time, accurate indoor localization in a previous post. Most good indoor localization solutions...

Spotlight on the Linux Software Ecosystem - The Fedora Project

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 19:39:00 +0000

As many may know, the Linux operating system has many variations. These are more commonly referred to as Linux distributions or distros, and choosing a distribution to use can be a quagmire. I won’t be telling people what distribution to use as each of them have their pros and cons, what I will do is highlight some of the distros that are acti...