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Coding Using NEON Technology

Posted by Guest Partner Blog,
21 May 2013
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ARM NEON™ technology is widely used for multimedia optimization. The SIMD architecture of NEON technology makes it very suitable for many compute intensive modules in multimedia codecs such as filtering, de-blocking etc. This blog explores effective coding techniques to enhance performance of an audio/video codec.

The compression algorithms used in multimedia codecs involve processing on large chunks of data. These may be simple element-wise operations on arrays or matrices or more complex loops iterating over large data. In many cases, the code can be re-arranged so that loop iterations can be executed efficiently and in parallel.

In the case of a video codec, most of processing is done on row pixels and column pixels of a block. For instance, the in-loop de-blocking filter involves data processing on multiple pixels of vertical and horizontal edges. These computations can be accelerated using NEON technology by arranging the data in a suitable way. Consider the case of vertical filtering.

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NEON load and transpose instructions are used to load all 16 pixels (8 bi...

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Comparison of JavaScript execution modes of the WebKit browser engine

Posted by Guest Partner Blog,
08 May 2013
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Nowadays web browsers are among the most widely used software tools. You can find them being used everywhere on devices ranging from phones and tablets to personal computers. The heart of all browsers is a browser engine. We, at the Department of Software Engineering, University of Szeged, Hungary, are long time contributors of a well-known browser engine called WebKit. We have worked on quite a few areas of WebKit including the JavaScript engine, multicore support, graphics and the building and testing environment. In this blog post we show the different execution modes of the JavaScript engine and compare their performance.

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The JavaScript execution engine of WebKit is called JavaScriptCore. It is a profiling virtual machine which supports various optimization levels. A higher optimization level offers better runtime performance, but its trade-off is longer compilation time. Each optimization level corresponds to an execution mode. At the moment JavaScriptCore has three execution modes. The basic execution mode is the interpreted execution model provided by the LLInt (Low Level Interpreter) component. The next level is translating the JavaScript source code into native code by the JIT (Just-in-t...

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New Platform Bring-Up with ARM® Development Studio 5 (DS-5™)

Posted by Ronan Synnott,
30 April 2013
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I am an FAE at ARM, and part of my job is to support users bringing up new silicon and hardware platforms, so that they can start to develop software on them. For this task, I use the ARM DSTREAM™ debug and trace unit and the various bring-up utilities provided with the DS-5 toolchain, which enable the creation of device support in the DS-5 Debugger. I decided to write this blog to describe how I use these tools, and to encourage you to do the same. Our configuration database is aware of over 100 standard platforms today. We would like to add many more, and you can help.

I will talk about the configuration tools provided to get you going quickly and easy, as well as diagnosis tools should things go wrong. If you need to go further, the python based Debug and Trace Services Layer (DTSL) provides the key to unlocking all the debug features.

In the below examples I use the ARM ...

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DS-5 Streamline Performance Analyzer on Allwinner Android 4.0 HDMI Dongle

Posted by Bob Peng,
25 April 2013
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ARM® DS-5TM Streamline Performance Analyzer, part of the ARM DS-5 toolchain, is an useful tool for developers doing system level software optimization for ARM Linux and Android platforms. Streamline makes it easy for platform and app developers to mitigate performance bottlenecks, improve code parallelization, extend battery life, and enhance user experience. With Streamline Performance Analyzer you can:
Find out where the CPU is spending more time, optimize it and speed up your codeMonitor actual power, current and voltage, and optimize compute tasks for the best efficiency Analyze and optimize Mali™ GPU, monitor CPU and GPU cache usage and system memory
To use the DS-5 Streamline Performance Analyzer users/developers first have to build DS-5 Gator driver/daemon to setup their own target. It is very inconvenient, especially for those application/app middleware developers who do not care what the target device is and do not have easy access to the ke...

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Spotlight on the Linux Software Ecosystem - openSUSE

Posted by Andrew Wafaa,
22 April 2013
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Continuing my “Spotlight on the Linux software Ecosystem”, this time I am going to cover the openSUSE Project.

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openSUSE is not only one of the major Linux distributions, but is also one of the oldest distributions tracing its history back to 1996 when it was called S.u.S.E. (an acronym for Software und System Entwicklung); it is also the upstream project for the well known SUSE Linux Enterprise distribution (SLE). As with many distributions, it offers a large array of Open Source software as part of the core distribution and much more via the Open Build Service. In contrast to its peers, openSUSE is a relatively new comer to the ARM community with a concerted effort over the past two years to enable support for ARM. The project focuses the current ARMv7 and upcoming ARMv8 versio...

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