Overview
The Arm Mali-D77 is the second-generation premium display processor based on the Komeda display architecture. Advances in image quality, performance, and motion-to-photon latency delivers superior VR experiences for the end-user. Mali-D77 can be combined with Arm Mali GPUs for an optimal solution for VR workloads across multiple host devices, including all-in-one VR, smartphones, and set-top boxes.
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AMBA 4 ACE adds system-level coherency support to the AMBA 4 specifications. By enabling cache coherency between the high- performance ARM Cortex-A15 MPCore processor and software-compatible high- efficiency Cortex-A7 MPCore processor it enables energy savings through heterogeneous multiprocessing, termed ‘big.LITTLE’ by ARM.
The drive to constrain product costs and power consumption places severe limits on system designers, particularly with external memory bandwidth. To increase performance, designers need to focus on efficient use of this system bandwidth. In turn, this drives the need for products to help with the analysis of the system dynamics and intelligent fabric architectures to manage the scarce resources. This article examines the role of Verification and Performance Exploration (VPE) and introduces the design objectives behind the advanced Quality-of-Service (QoS) mechanisms to optimize the performance that can be delivered by such systems.
In this article we provide an introduction to DP, talk about the various factors that IC designers will want to consider when integrating the DP functionality into their SOC, and present at a high-level the solutions Silicon Creations provides in this area.
With the proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, which now span just about every walk of life, from smart cities to wireless jewellery, the need to prioritize security in IoT-style embedded systems has never been greater. The secure boot process is a vital first step in securing any embedded system, a necessary part of your application’s anti-malware fortress. Let’s take a look at the pros and cons, with a focus on one of the most popular processors in electronics – the i.MX6.
