ARM Connected Community

ARM innovations in low power processor and SoC technology are supported by the industry's largest network of Partners – the ARM® Connected Community. The ARM Connected Community connects an ecosystem of partners collaborating on best-in-class technologies to create optimized solutions for designers and developers. Differentiated solutions, combined with the flexibility of choice enabled by this group of over 800 partners ensures a solution to design challenges, and drives innovation to meet end user demands.

Come visit the members of the ARM Connected Community on the show floor at ESC Silicon Valley. From microcontroller solutions and software tools to SoC design technologies, ARM partners are innovating at all points in the design chain to reduce risk and accelerate design. Leading silicon, design support, software and training providers come together at the ARM Partner Pavilion to provide product solutions based on ARM technology.

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CHECK OUT THE LATEST LIST OF ARM PRESENTATIONS BELOW.

Android and Linux Development - the right tool for the job!
Presenter - Ken Havens
Android has rapidly grown to become one the main software platforms for connected consumer devices like smartphones, mobile computing, and home entertainment. However, as these markets evolve to increasingly demand advanced media processing, little emphasis has been given to tools which enable developers to create highly optimized native code. This presentation uses a case study to show how ARM DS-5 can be used to debug, profile, and optimize media-intensive applications using ARM NEON instructions to dramatically improve performance.

Linux system development: choosing the right tool for the job
Presenter - Javier Orensanz
The development of a Linux or Android-based product involves several stages: platform bring-up, BSP development, middleware/library development and application development. This presentation explores the market and technical requirements for each of these stages and the application of different target connection technologies: JTAG and trace probes, debug agents and simulation models.

Streamlining Android Applications
Presenter - Javier Orensanz
By nature, embedded systems are heterogeneous, often varying in shape and size and containing many different processing elements that support varied device functions. One commonality is the need to balance the requirements of low power and high performance. Thus the creation of DS-5 development tools from ARM® that includes the new STREAMLINE Performance Analyzer. This presentation will discuss these performance analysis tools in DS-5 used in debugging, profiling, and optimizing applications to dramatically improve performance. 

Introduction to Digital Signal Processing with Cortex-M
Presenter - Ken Havens
The ARM Cortex-M processor families have instructions that are well suited for Digital Signal Processing (DSP). ARM has therefore extended the Cortex Microcontroller Software Interface Standard (CMSIS) with a DSP Library. This presentation explains how this DSP Library can be used to implement powerful signal processing algorithms on Cortex-M3 and Cortex-M4 based microcontrollers.

Better optimization and verification of Cortex-M software
Presenter - Ken Havens
Optimizing and verifying Cortex-M applications represents an essential part of the development cycle, especially as many markets now demand formal software verification or certification. This presentation provides a detailed introduction to the ARM CoreSight technology and how it is used by developers to deliver better optimized and verified software as well as being used to more easily meet the requirements of software certification when required.

RTOS and Middleware: an ARM perspective
Presenter - Ken Havens
A Real-Time Operating System and other middleware components are fundamental parts of a modern embedded system using ARM Cortex-M and Cortex-R processor-based devices. Selecting the most suitable component for your application represents a sizable investment in time and cost. This presentation looks at the key areas you should consider when choosing an RTOS or other middleware components using the ARM Real-Time Library as an illustrative example.

Cortex Microcontroller Software Interface Standard
Presenter - Ken Havens
This presentation discusses how the development and porting of Cortex-M software is simplified by using the Cortex Microcontroller Software Interface Standard (CMSIS).

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Future Design:Instant Graphical User Interface (GUI) Solutions
Presenter - Kent Lowman, President, Future Design
Future Designs, Inc. will be highlighting our family of Touch Screen LCD GUI solutions based on various ARM™ processors at ESC San Jose in the ARM Partner Pavilion, Booth 1308. Our uEZ® GUI Family provides an "Off The Shelf" solution that allows customers to quickly and cost effectively upgrade their User Interfaces to meet today's market requirements. We offer NXP LPC2478 ARM7TDMI-S, NXP LPC3250 ARM926EJ-S and NXP LPC1788 Cortex-M3 based microcontrollers in various speeds and memory configurations. Our uEZ® GUI Family is currently available with LCD's ranging in size from 3.5" to 7.0" and resolutions up to WVGA.

The uEZGUI-2478-43WQS and uEZGUI-1788-70WVE are miniature, self-contained designs which are well suited to embed directly into your product or FDI offers prepackaged versions for stand-alone use. FDI offers low cost customization services for customer specific hardware, software or packaging applications at volumes of 500 units or more. Products are in stock at any of our five franchised distributors including Avnet Electronics Marketing. Please visit www.uezgui.com for more details.

Crank Software: Collaborative UI Development for ARM Devices
The rise in the importance of the Graphical User Interface (GUI, or more generally UI) is no longer confined to the consumer market. UI design is quickly becoming a key differentiator among products across the entire embedded space. With this change in importance comes a shift in how UIs are developed. UI development is no longer a process controlled only by embedded engineers; it includes many stakeholders new to the embedded life cycle. Collaborative effort now includes UI designers and user experience (UX) designers along with embedded engineers. Each of these stakeholders not only brings their own expertise, but also very different development environments and processes that generally don't align with the embedded development world.

Providing a UI development environment that enables all team members to activity participate in the UI development without sacrificing performance or integration with the embedded system enables device manufactures can decrease their risk and time to market. In this presentation we will discuss how to enable the different stakeholders to not only collaborate to develop a rich UI, but also leverages the ARM processors and it's graphics acceleration.

Energy Micro: 10 Factors That Make the EFM32 the World's Most Energy Friendly Microcontrollers
Presenter - Raman Sharma
Which factors must be in place for designers to be able to extend the lifetime of a typical 3V coin cell battery application by at least 300%? Today's leading edge MCUs from Energy Micro only consume a quarter of the energy required by 8-bit, 16-bit or 32-bit alternatives.  This presentation will look closer on how engineers can benefit from the ARM processor-based EFM32's features when designing for energy sensitive applications. Such applications may need to operate for as long as possible (even decades) without external power or operator intervention. By breaking the microcontroller design convention in some very distinct ways, new 32-bit microcontrollers achieve minimum 4x longer battery life. With supporting hardware and software tools that include advanced energy metering functionality, designers get results faster.

Gainspan: Embedded Wi-Fi for the Internet of Things
Presenter - Mr. Harpreet Chohan
There is increasing global interest in connecting “Things” to the Internet. These Things are generally based upon microcontrollers with relatively limited resources running real-time, embedded software. In many instances these Things are very power sensitive, and are therefore battery powered or backed up, which results in additional challenges in connecting theses devices to the Internet. Embedded Wi-Fi provides an excellent technology choice and basis for connecting these Things directly to the Internet, while addressing the concerns of power, cost, scalability, security, and infrastructure. Embedded Wi-Fi also connects People to these Things, making the Internet of Things a reality.  In this session, attendees will learn how embedded Wi-Fi solutions from GainSpan -- powered by dual ARM core processors -- are enabling the Internet of Things today.

Cadence: Connected Platforms Optimize System Realization
Presenter - Ran Avinun
The electronic industry is moving from hardware-defined to system-defined and application-driven products. As a result, product differentiation shifts to system (software-based) content while hardware platforms and their development processes become increasingly commoditized. System bring-up (while meeting functionality, power, and performance) has become the most challenging task and consumes 1/3 to ½ of the overall development cycle, and is a top OEM executive concern as it can make or break the profitability of their products. What is the best approach to system-level validation? Do you invest in the promise of faster virtual platforms while dealing with their inherent timing inaccuracy? Is the low-cost, but long bring-up time, FPGA prototype approach enough to get the job done? Do you rely solely on system emulation or simulation acceleration? How do you leverage these technologies to enable collaboration with your IP suppliers and customers? To keep pace with the demands of advanced System-on-Chip (SoC) development, the traditional approach simply isn't productive enough. The big picture solution must deliver a unifying flow that offers users a familiar simulation-based environment able to maximize and expand the simulation capabilities for both sub-system and system-level simulation. Cadence envisions that this flow needs to combine, open, connected, scalable and best-in-class HW/SW platforms continuum including HW-assisted verification and software-based tools. The integrated flow will need to break new ground in delivering scalable usability for both design-team and enterprise-class customers, connecting design and verification flow throughout multiple levels of abstraction, offering high-performance and flexible modeling environment.

Co-Marketing with ARM
Presenter - Lori Kate Smith
Learn the various ways that Partners of ARM through the ARM Connected Community can leverage ARM's broad marketing opportunities in Blogs, Social Media, web and more.

Hard Real Time and the New Cortex-R5 and Cortex-R7 Processors for Embedded Applications with Error Management
Presenter – Chris Turner
The recently announced Cortex-R5 and R7 processor are used in high-performance, real-time embedded systems applications such as data storage devices, mobile communication baseband and safety-critical control in automotive, aerospace. Chris will describe technical features of the processors, detail some use cases and focus on the extreme performance that will be offered by Cortex-R7 to next-generation requirements such as LTE-Advanced in mobile broadband for smartphones and tablet computers.