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Want to start writing code for the two ARM Cortex-A9 processors on the Xilinx...
As of today, you can start to develop application software for the Xilinx Zynq-7000 family of Extensible Processing Platforms (EPP) using a virtual prototyping platform announced today and jointly...
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How about a quick and easy guide to ARM Cortex processor cores? Got one for...
I met with Nandan Nayampally, Director of CPU Product Marketing for the Processor Division at ARM, at ARM TechCon 2011 last week and asked him for a short-form way of understanding the three major...
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Who wants more technical detail on the Altera SoC FPGA? Altera says…you!
After the previous post on the announcement of the Altera SoC FPGA ran in EDA360 Insider—see “The other shoe drops: Altera introduces SoC FPGA, mates ARM Cortex-A9 dual-core processor complex with FPGA...
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Nvidia Tegra 3 based on five ARM Cortex-A9 cores is mobile processor of the...
This week in the Microprocessor Report, the Linley Group announced its Analysts’ Choice Award winners and declared the Nvidia Tegra 3 to be the top mobile processor announced in 2011. As published in...
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Playing poker with applications processors: Can two ARM Cortex-A15 cores beat...
One maxim in the multicore biz is that more (processor cores) is better. Is that really true? All the time? Two ARM Cortex-A15 processor cores in a TI OMAP 5 processor outperform four ARM Cortex-A9...
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Friday Video: Short video demonstrates Samsung Exynos quad-core ARM Cortex-A9...
This short 1.5-minute video gives you a high-level overview of the relative performance of a Samsung Exynos 4-core mobile applications processor based on the ARM Cortex-A9 processor core versus a...
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39 low-cost boards for embedded Linux application development starting with...
Thanks to Google+, I just found this very interesting list of 39 low-cost development boards supporting embedded Linux development. Most of these boards cost less than US $200 and many of them cost...
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Need to make an ARM Cortex-A9 processor core all it can be?
A new blog published today on the ARM Web site titled “How do you take an ARM POP up one more notch?” describes a very recent collaboration between ARM and Cadence to enhance the ARM POP IP, which...
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Xilinx takes Zynq to 11—or more precisely to 1GHz
In the satirical 1984 movie “This is Spinal Tap,” Nigel the guitarist explains why the volume controls on his Marshall amps go to 11 instead of 10 like everyone else’s amps: “If we need that extra push...
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Nikon announces Android-powered camera: the $349 Coolpix S800c
Nikon Coolpix S800c Android-powered camera Nikon has just announced an Android-powered point-and-shoot camera—the $349 Coolpix S800c. It’s a 16Mpixel camera with a 10x optical zoom but the real...
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