ARM launch ARM DS-5 toolchain version 5.12 for power optimization

ARM and NI have worked closely together to provide a solution that helps equipment manufacturers to bring to market highly energy-efficient products in a short timeframe.



The Streamline Performance Analyzer provides system-level visibility of complex SoCs. This enables developers to correlate thread activity and application events with performance counters from different system components such as CPUs, GPUs and fabric, highlighting bottlenecks and areas for improvement in the software. Streamline currently supports NI X and M series USB DAQ devices and extends its functionality with the visualization of voltage, current and/or power consumption on multiple power domains with high levels of accuracy. This functionality helps developers to understand how software and system utilization affects their product’s energy consumption.



NI X and M series USB DAQ devices push Streamline performance further than ever before by providing up to 18-bit resolution, 80 channels of analog voltage input and simultaneous sampling. You can closely monitor a multitude of power domains on your target for higher granularity optimizations. The new data acquisition interface complements the lightweight ARM EnergyProbe, which provides power measurement for up to three channels, and is ideal for application-level optimizations.



“Energy efficiency is a primary design concern of hardware and software engineers in an increasing number of market applications,” said John Cornish, executive vice president, System Design Division, ARM. “Our partnership with National Instruments sets a new standard in combined power-performance software tuning. Together, ARM DS-5 and NI-DAQ devices provide a scalable and flexible solution that meets the requirements of the next generation of ARM processor-based products.”



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“We are pleased to work with ARM to integrate our multifunction DAQ devices into the power optimization workflow,” said Chad Chesney, director of marketing, DAQ acquisition, National Instruments. “With the versatility of NI data acquisition products and the performance of ARM DS-5, electronic equipment manufacturers can accelerate time to market for power-optimized products.”





A fully featured 30-day evaluation copy of ARM DS-5 Professional Edition v5.12 is available for download today.