The ARM AMBA® and CoreSight™ system development IP and tools products address the critical challenges of efficiently moving, storing and observing data between cores and memory to optimize the system performance and power consumption of ARM Cortex processor-based SoC designs. The AMBA system development components enable system designers to maximise the utilization of system bandwidth, reduce latency and cut time to market of high-performance SoC designs, while the ARM CoreSight technology provides complete on-chip debug and real-time trace visibility, reducing risk and speeding development of high quality system software.

For systems that demand high-quality graphics and video processing the extremely power- and area-efficient Mali™ Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) and Mali-VE Video Engines provide ideal solutions. The Cortex-A5 processor when combined with the Mali-200, Mali-400MP GPUs and the Mali-VE3, Mali-VE6 Video Engines ensure highly efficient and flexible designs that scale with requirements to deliver the rich multimedia user experience necessary for success in the highly competitive market for consumer products.

ARM also provides a complete range of complementary software tools to enable software development, optimization and test ahead of silicon availability, significantly reducing application time-to-market and ensuring the highest degree of software quality. Tools available at launch include Fast Models, instruction-accurate models ideal for creating, running and optimizing software in simulation, RealView® Development Suite (RVDS) 4.0 Pro, incorporating the best-in-class ARM Compiler and market-leading ARM Profiler, enabling applications to easily achieve both high performance and optimal code size.

In addition, the ARM Active Assist training and on-site system-design advisory service enables licensees to efficiently integrate the Cortex-A5 processor into their design to realize maximum system performance with lowest risk and fastest time-to-market.

Licensing and Availability

The Cortex-A5 processor has multiple lead licensees developing leadership mass-market silicon today, is now available for general licensing and will be delivered in the fourth quarter of 2009.

About ARM

ARM designs the technology that lies at the heart of advanced digital products, from wireless, networking and consumer entertainment solutions to imaging, automotive, security and storage devices. ARM’s comprehensive product offering includes 32-bit RISC microprocessors, graphics processors, enabling software, cell libraries, embedded memories, high-speed connectivity products, peripherals and development tools. Combined with comprehensive design services, training, support and maintenance, and the company’s broad Partner community, they provide a total system solution that offers a fast, reliable path to market for leading electronics companies. More information on ARM is available at http://www.arm.com.

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SUPPORTING QUOTES FROM ARM CONNECTED COMMUNITY MEMBERS

“ARM continues to meet increasing architectural efficiency and performance demands with innovative multiprocessor capable cores,” said John Bruggeman, chief marketing officer at Cadence Design Systems, Inc. “By adding our unique expanded multiprocessor design capabilities, Cadence will enable faster implementation and verification of the Sparrow multicore processor using the Encounter Digital Implementation System and Incisive Verification environments.”

“In the past few years, eSOL has pioneered in the RTOS and development tools for multicore processors with extensive support in ARM Cortex-A8 and ARM11 MPCore processors to date,” said Nobuyuki Ueyama, the executive vice president of eSOL Co., Ltd. “We congratulate ARM for making another breakthrough with the new Cortex-A5 MPCore processors, and eSOL will strive to offer the eCROS platform that includes a multi-profiled, scalable real-time operating system (RTOS), middleware and development tools, all of which have been seamlessly integrated and offered as a development platform for the new processor along with Cortex-A9 processor."

“ARM has produced another pioneering product which will deliver an attractive migration path from its highly successful ARM926EJ-S™ and ARM1176JZ(F)-S™ processors,” said William E Lamie, CEO and president, Express Logic, Inc. “Our ThreadX RTOS, which is already deployed in hundreds of millions of ARM Powered® devices, offers designers working with the Cortex™-A5 processor, a responsive, high-performance, low-memory footprint solution for producing compelling products in today’s challenging market.”

“The ARM® Cortex-A5 processor provides an impressive blend of power and memory efficiency while delivering outstanding multicore performance,” said David Kleidermacher, CTO at Green Hills Software. “Green Hills’ technologies, including INTEGRITY Secure Virtualization (ISV) and TrustZone® security solutions, combine with the Cortex-A5 processor to give OEMs and developers a compelling platform for sophisticated designs while meeting stringent reliability and cost requirements.”

“Today’s portable devices are increasingly challenged to deliver long battery life, while still being able to deliver the Internet on go, all at a low cost,” said Shantanu Jha, Vice President Media Processing at Ittiam. “The ARM Cortex-A5 processor is a compelling architecture to address this mix of requirements. Additionally, software compatibility with the Cortex-A family ensures readily available, high performance, low power multimedia functions. Ittiam is proud that our strong partnership with ARM has resulted in the benchmarking of our audio and video codecs as an off the shelf solution, enabling fast time to market for mobile multimedia and connectivity products. This is in keeping with Ittiam’s commitment to providing proven, best-in-class ARM processor-based software for the multimedia and Internet world.”