On-site Services

ARM^® Active Assist provides a set of targeted on and off-site team assistance packages, designed to accelerate the adoption of ARM expertise, get teams designing faster and communicating more effectively, reduce design iteration, and help build confidence in final designs.

ARM also provides on-site training services.

Why Active Assist ?

Services

Additional Information

With System-on-Chip (SoC) complexity increasing, design teams need to focus on what delivers differentiation within their system. At the same time, there are common challenges to many of these designs:

Applications Processor configuration
Graphics Processor configuration
Multi-Layer Bus Architecture
System-on-Chip debug strategy
Level 1 and Level 2 Cache sizing
Memory controller integration.

Significant experience within ARM supports these common building blocks. Active Assist provides access to ARM engineering experience at various project stages, offering a 'best practices' approach to next generation designs.

Active Assist addresses tangible project 'Hot Spots' in a typical SoC design flow:

Active Assist services apply to subsystems built using the following:

ARM7, ARM9, ARM11, MPCore and Cortex family processors
Mali (hardware and software systems integration)
AMBA bus architectures and System IP
CoreSight and RealView Debug tools
ARM PHYs.

Design Reviews can be performed during the following Project Stages:

System Architecture Definition
RTL Sign-Off
Silicon Implementation Sign-Off - Particularly for Physical IP, such as ARM PHY products.

Debug Assist can be provided during the following Project Stages:

Prototype System Bring-Up
Post Silicon Platform Bring-Up.

Design Review Format

Initial review calls to define the scope of the engagement and gather necessary information
Four days on-site
Written report follow-up after 2 weeks containing observations and recommendations.