This article is selected from the Jishu column “Arm Selection” by author lvy, authorized to be transferred from the WeChat public account Arm Selection. This article will take you deeper into the understanding of the MCU boot process. I previously wrote an article analyzing the complete boot process of STM32, but I felt that some … Read more
Star Box Smart Gateway Function/Application Scenario Analysis In the era of the Internet of Things (IoT), IoT gateways play a crucial role by successfully connecting the perception network with traditional communication networks, enabling wide-area and local interconnections. With an IoT gateway, it is possible to manage various perception nodes at the bottom layer, capture information, … Read more
Arm today announced the launch of “Arm® Total Design” ecosystem, aimed at smoothly delivering custom system-on-chip (SoC) based on Neoverse™ Compute Subsystem (CSS). Arm Total Design brings together leading companies in the industry, including application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) design firms, IP suppliers, EDA tool providers, foundries, and firmware developers, to accelerate and simplify the development … Read more
When it comes to processor architectures, the most well-known globally are ARM, X86, and PowerPC. As a result, many people often compare them, yet there are still many who are unclear about their differences. Below, we will compare them from multiple aspects to help you understand the differences between ARM, X86, and PowerPC at once! … Read more
Unlike independent brands like Intel or AMD, ARM-designed processors may not be known by many users, but few would think that processors designed by ARM exist in over 130 billion different devices. This includes smartphones, gaming consoles, smartwatches, and even in hygrometers, ATMs, and countless other devices. Moreover, in 2020, these ARM-based processors also made … Read more
This article is selected from the Jishu Community column “IC Design”, authored by Lao Qin Talks about Chips, and is authorized to be transferred from the WeChat official account Lao Qin Talks about Chips.This article will introduce what virtualization is. Today, we will explore an interesting topic: virtualization. Before we start, let’s casually talk about … Read more
With little knowledge of hardware, let’s learn from Master Yang’s article “Do You Understand ARM CPU Architecture?!”. Introduction Recently, there was a requirement to install MySQL 8.0 on an ARM architecture; I’ve heard of ARM CPUs, but have never deployed them in practice; and what exactly is this ARM CPU architecture? I only have a … Read more
Public Course Content This public course is the second session of the 2024 Jishu Community Infra series, shared by Bie Zai Ping, Senior Software Manager at Arm Technology. The course will focus on the software ecosystem of Arm servers and methodologies for performance optimization, along with corresponding tools. It will detail the performance analysis methods … Read more
This article is reprinted from the Jishu Community. Jishu Column: Arm Server Author:BoltLiu This is a test report on enabling MySQL PGO. Correctly enabling MySQL PGO leads to significant performance improvements, with write performance increasing by about 13% and read performance increasing by about 20%. Environment Setup The testing environment is set up on an … Read more
Course Introduction The Arm 64-bit architecture enables Arm® processors to better handle applications that require higher performance and larger memory processing, such as data centers, cloud computing, high-performance computing, virtualization, and big data.In recent years, Arm has specifically designed the Arm Neoverse™ computing platform to meet the demands of data centers and cloud computing workloads. … Read more