ARM has launched the key ingredients required for developing
digital devices for the converged market mobile computing
and mobile communications. The new ARM Cortex -A5 MP processor
core enables Internet connectivity. The new suite of resources
for graphics and embedded applications called ARM Mali Developer
Center with the Khronos OpenGL ES 1.1 and 2.0, OpenVG 1.0
and 1.1, and other APIs targeting Mali graphics processing
unit (GPU) platforms. ARM also announced the new AMBA System
IP, the AMBA Network Interconnect with advanced Quality
of Service, a new dynamic memory controller, and the verification
and performance exploration tool for low power, high performance
ARM processor-based SoCs.
Here are details of each product/service:
1. ARM Cortex-A5 MPCore processor:
ARM Cortex-A5 MPCore processor is a ARM multicore processor
with the ability to provide Internet to the wide range of
mobile devices.
The ARM926EJ-S and ARM1176JZ-S processor licensees can
easily migrate to Cortex-A5 uniprocessor where the latter
offers same power and silicon area footprint but with the
advantage of nearly twice the power-efficiency.
Both the area and power efficient Cortex-A5 uniprocessor
and the scalable Cortex-A5 MPCore multicore processors are
supported ARMv7 architectural functionality for both application
specific and general purpose designs.
The ARM MPCore processors are already licensed by 15 companies,
which include Broadcom, NEC Electronics (Europe) GmbH, NVIDIA,
Renesas Technology America, Toshiba America Electronic Components
and Sarnoff Corporation.
The Cortex-A5 processor features TrustZone security technology
with a NEON multimedia-processing engine, which is a 128-bit
SIMD (Single Instruction, Multiple Data) architecture extension
for the Cortex-A series processors.
The Cortex-A5 processor is compatible with the Cortex-A8
and Cortex-A9 processors, supporting RTOS and other embedded
software applications such as Android, Adobe Flash, Java
Platform Standard Edition (Java SE), JavaFX, Linux, Microsoft
Windows Embedded, Symbian and Ubuntu, along with more than
600 ARM Connected Community members.
2. ARM Mali Developer Center:
The online Mali Developer Center provides free tools, information
resources, hardware and a community forum to speed advanced
graphic and multimedia interface development on Mali GPU-based
platforms for products such as smartphones, netbooks, game
consoles, personal navigation devices, automotive dashboards,
set-top boxes and digital TVs.
3. New AMBA System IP:
ARM has launched the new AMBA System IP, the AMBA Network
Interconnect with advanced Quality of Service, a new dynamic
memory controller, and the verification and performance
exploration tool for low power, high performance ARM processor-based
SoCs.
The AMBA Network Interconnect (NIC-301) with advanced QoS
(QoS-301) for ARM Cortex CPUs, Mali GPUs and Video processors
boosts web-browsing performance by up to 30 percent in terms
of click response.
The licensed AMBA Dynamic Memory Controller (DMC-342) family
supports LPDDR2 memories with high bandwidth, low power
and reduced pin-count characteristics. The DMC-342 manages
memory power modes to reduce system level power consumption.
The new AMBA Verification and Performance Exploration (VPE-301)
tool allows chip designers to check the performance of subsystems
comprising ARM Cortex processors, Mali GPUs and customer
IP prior to software or silicon availability. The VPE-301
substitutes RTL with components that generate statistical
AMBA AXI traffic profiles, to reduce simulation times by
more than 90 percent while maintaining data-path accuracy.
With VPE-301, system architects can evaluate more design
configurations with optimal performance.
Availability:
All of these products are available for licensing from ARM
today
For more details visit www.arm.com
Editorial Product Rating: Significant
