ARM has introduced multi-drop support into the ARM CoreSight Serial Wire Debug (SWD) solution, enabling simultaneous connection to multiple devices from a single debug host. This latest version of SWD with multi-drop support brings a high performance and low cost 2-pin debug solution to complex, multi-core, multi-chip products such as mobile devices, making debug implementation more affordable in the end product.

ARM and NXP, the independent semiconductor company founded by Philips, today announced at Embedded Systems Conference (ESC), Boston, mbed.org and the mbed microcontroller rapid prototyping tools. With the market for 32-bit microcontrollers set for explosive growth, the ability for new markets to adopt and exploit modern microcontroller technology becomes a critical success factor. To maximise these opportunities ARM has developed mbed, the indust...

ARM has announced the development of two Cortex-A9 MPCore hard macro implementations for the TSMC 40nm-G process, enabling silicon manufacturers to have a rapid and low-risk route to silicon for high-performance, low-power Cortex-A9 processor-based devices. The speed-optimized hard macro implementation will enable devices to operate at frequencies greater than 2GHz.

ARM and Cypress Semiconductor Corp. announced today that Cypress has licensed a broad range of intellectual property (IP) from ARM for use in next-generation programmable platforms. Cypress has licensed the ARM Cortex-M3 and ARM9 family processors, along with more than 75 other IP elements.

ARM has released the RealView Development Suite 4.0 Pro service pack 2, which features Linux application trace and profiling with the ARM Profiler.

ARM announced today that it has licensed the ARM Cortex-M3 processor to Fujitsu Microelectronics Limited for future low-power applications. ARM has been a partner with Fujitsu Microelectronics since first licensing ARM processor cores in 1998 to the former Electronic Devices Group of Fujitsu Limited, and since then Fujitsu Microelectronics has been adopting ARM architecture for many products. With the licensing of the Cortex-M3 processor from ARM...

ARM announced today that Core Logic Inc, a leading Korea-based fabless semiconductor manufacturer in the development and delivery of mobile multimedia solutions, has licensed the ARM Mali-400 MP multicore graphics processing unit (GPU) to enable significantly enhanced, high-definition (HD) entertainment and browsing experiences on smartphones, fully-featured multimedia phones, portable media players (PMP) and personal navigation devices (PND) wit...

ARM is seeing demand for mobile devices offering a high-definition entertainment and browsing experience rapidly increasing in Asia, as two more licensing agreements for its ARM Mali graphics processing units (GPUs) are made with mobile technology providers in the region, Rockchip and Telechips.

ARM today announced at DAC, San Francisco, Calif., that CoWare, Mentor Graphics and Synopsys Inc. have joined the ARM Fast Models Enablement Program. Members of the Program are able to integrate fully validated Fast Models from ARM, for a range of ARM processors, into their virtual platform environments and deliver to their customers. This ensures that mutual customers can create complete ARM Powered virtual platforms using the design flow of the...

ARM has announced the availability of ultra low-power Physical IP libraries to drive the next generation of energy-efficient MCU devices. The ARM 0.18µm ultra low power libraries (uLL), coupled with the inherent power management advantages of the ARM Cortex processor family and the TSMC 0.18µm embedded flash uLL/HDR “high data retention” process provides SoC designers with additional reduction in power leakage up to 10x compared to 0.18um ...

Keil has announced immediate support for the STMicroelectronics STM32 Connectivity Line in the Keil MDK-ARM (Microcontroller Development Kit) and RL-ARM (Real-Time Library). Keil has also introduced the new MCBSTM32C evaluation board and starter kit.

Keil has released the MCB1760 evaluation board and starter kit to support the NXP LPC1700 Cortex-M3 processor-based family. The MCB1760 evaluation board features a LPC1768 microcontroller running at up to 100MHz, together with a color QVGA LCD, Ethernet, USB, CAN, SD/MMC card interface, and UARTs.

ARM has announced that Samsung Electronics has licensed its Mali-SVG-t software for use in a wide range of mobile handsets, enabling clear graphical rendering of 2D objects and easy scaling for different display resolutions and zoom factors. Samsung joins a group of leading handset manufacturers who are leveraging ARM Mali hardware and software technology to deliver their next-generation mobile devices.

ARM announced today that MediaTek Inc, a fabless semiconductor company for wireless communications and digital multimedia solutions, has licensed the ARM Mali-400 MP multicore graphics processing unit for its system-on-chip technology.

ARM has announced that LG Electronics has licensed ARM technology to power its digital TV development revolution. The ARM11 MPCore multicore processor provides flexible and cost effective processing in next generation DTVs and enables LG Electronics to target a range of platforms with the same architecture simply by implementing single or multiple SMP cores. ARM Mali-200 and Mali-400 MP graphics processors will open the path to true 1080p resolut...

ARM Mali graphics processing units (GPUs) demonstrate technology leadership in graphics acceleration through conformance to the Khronos OpenGL ES 2.0 API with two industry milestones. The Mali-200 graphics processing unit was the first GPU to comply at resolutions up to 1080p in July 2008, and the Mali-400 MP GPU is now the first and only multicore GPU to pass the rigorous tests specified by The Khronos Group.

ARM and Melfas, a leader in capacitive-sensing touch input solutions, today announced that Melfas has chosen the ARM Cortex-M0 processor and ARM physical IP libraries for their future controller ICs for capacitive touch screen solutions.

ARM today announced its support for the new EEMBC (Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium) CoreMark processor benchmark. CoreMark is a synthetic benchmark, but carries out meaningful calculations, and is claimed to be a significant improvement on current Dhrystone benchmarks which is overly dependent on the performance of the C library.

ARM today announced that Netronome, a leading developer of highly programmable semiconductor products that provide intelligent and secure flow processing for virtualized servers and network equipment, has licensed the ARM11 MPCore multicore processor and a portfolio of ARM Physical IP for incorporation into its NFP-32xx family of Network Flow Processors.

ARM has announced it has licensed the ARM SecurCore SC300 processor to Toshiba Corporation for use in future embedded security applications. The SC300 processor is based upon the popular Cortex-M3 processor “By licensing the ARM SecurCore SC300 processor, we will be able to provide our customers with a range of innovative smartcard IC solutions,” said Tatsuo Noguchi, SoC Technology executive of Semiconductor Company, Toshiba Corporation. “T...