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An Overview of ARM Architecture and Technologies
Texas Instruments India, Bangalore, 18 May 2011
Organized by: PragaTI (TI India Technical University) in collaboration with IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, Bangalore Chapter and VLSI Society of India
Speaker: William Hohl (Worldwide University Relations Manager, ARM)
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Report by C.P. Ravikumar:
William Hohl is the Worldwide University Relations Manager at ARM, where he has been working for the past 14 years. He is the author of the bestselling book ARM Assembly Language - Fundamentals and Techniques. He delivered a talk on An Overview of ARM Architecture and Technologies under the aegis of PragaTI (TI India Technical University), VLSI Society of India, and IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (Bangalore Chapter). The venue was the TI India Bangalore campus. |
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 Mr. William Hohl (ARM) delivering the seminar |
 Around 100 participants attended the seminar |
Bill started with an overview of ARM company and shared some interesting historical tidbits. Did you know that ARM was originally conceived by Acorn Computers for its personal computers? Did you know that 96% of mobile devices have an embedded ARM processor? Or that Apple iPAD-2 uses a Dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor? "Although ARM is called a Reduced Instruction Set architecture, the modern versions of the processor have hundreds of instructions," he shared. "The latest ARM processors have 600+ instructions." |
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His talk examined the ARM architecture, including the programmer's model, instruction sets, pipelines, AMBA bus, and development tools and resources that are available. About 100 participants attended the seminar. A number of questions were raised by the participants. Dr. C.P. Ravikumar, Secretary of VSI and CAS Bangalore Chapter, introduced the speaker and thanked him for his valuable seminar. Refreshments were served to the attendees. The seminar received excellent feedback; on a scale of 1-5, the quantitative rating for the seminar was 4.45. |
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