FirstView pre-approves potential outsourcing partners and suppliers in India and elsewhere, to enable reliable outsourcing of ARM related PCB design and other ARM optimizations work, tablet, set-top-box designs and more.
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ST Microelectronics STM32F4
Posted by – October 30, 2011
ST is the current leader in ARM Cortex-M series shipments, those microprocessors go into everything.
ARM Cortex-M4 hardware accelerated Mp3 playback
Posted by – October 30, 2011
ARM Cortex-M4 with a DSP in the Freescale K60 Tower Board to demonstrate hardware accelerated Mp3 playback.
Update on the ST Ericsson SNOWBALL ARM Cortex-A9 development board
Posted by – October 30, 2011
The SKY-S9500-ULP-CXX aka SNOWBALL has been available as a development board for the ST Ericsson ARM Cortex-A9 processor for about 4 months now. Here’s an update on how they are doing. Find more at http://igloocommunity.org
Ericsson HSPA+ and LTE modems
Posted by – October 30, 2011
Ericsson is one of the leaders in cellular network infrastructure, for the past 4 years they also make HSDPA, HSPA+ and now also LTE modems to embed in Tablets, Laptops and more.
Microsemi Smart Fusion Custumizable SoC
Posted by – October 27, 2011
Rajiv Nema, product line manager, describes how Microsemi’s Smart Fusion works, to combined the ARM Cortex-M3 with FPGA to provide for customizable system on chip.
Mentor Graphics at ARM TechCon 2011
Posted by – October 27, 2011
Mentor Graphics is one of the major EDA providers of the ARM industry. At their booth they are showing some impressive 3D graphical user interfaces that they say is easy and cheap to implement on ARM Powered devices to make them more appealing and to differentiate in the UI design, and they are also showing an auto-balancing lego robot built using Texas Instruments Sitara microcontrollers and the nucleus real-time software.
I’m Watch, i.MX233 Android Bluetooth wrist watch
Posted by – October 27, 2011
They are launching before Christmas, it’s a $299/299€ Android watch, running on the Freescale i.MX233 ARM9 processor, it has a 1.54″ capacitive touch screen, with Bluetooth it synchronizes with any Android phone, iPhone or other smartphone, there is an API to adapt Android apps to it.
Toshiba presents their latest Cortex-M processors
Posted by – October 27, 2011
Toshiba is doing a range of ARM Cortex-M series of processors used in a huge number of devices around the world.
M-Etic Game to showcases ARM Cortex-M0
Posted by – October 27, 2011
Here are the parts used and their cost:
4x Linear Actuator – $240
96x RGB LED – $100
1x Infinity Mirror – $20
1x Joystick – $10
1x ARM Cortex-M0 – Less than $1