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Smart Sustainability - join ARM's research project and receive free benchmarking opportunities
ARM and IBLF have launched a survey on how the technology sector is addressing global sustainability issues.
The brief online questionnaire will take no more than 5 minutes and all participants will be sent a soft copy of the final "Smart Sustainability" report.
There are significant extra benefits if you then have time to go on and complete a more detailed survey, which will take around twenty minutes:
a (confidential) report benchmarking your company's performance against other respondents
the right to use this data, and the final "Smart Sustainability" report, in your own publications
$10 donation to the East African Drought Campaign from ARM for every full survey completed
The resulting report is assured excellent coverage through ARM's participation in the UN LEAD initiative and the associated activities. The International Business Leaders Forum (IBLF) is working with ARM to compile this report. Please click here to complete the questionnaire.
We would like to thank you in advance for your participation. If you have any queries about the questionnaire, please contact Bridget Cochrane, Director of the Digital Partnership at IBLF [email protected].
Product of the Month
ARM Powered E-Paper Smartwatch
The ARM powered Pebble watch for IPhone and Android is being billed as the watch of the 21st century.
The water resistant Pebble runs on an ARM Cortex-M3 processor with a 3-axis accelerometer and a 144x168 e-paper display. It connects to iPhone and Android smartphones using Bluetooth, alerting users via a silent vibration to incoming calls, emails, weather alerts and Twitter and Facebook messages. Apps for the Pebble include a bike computer, accessing the GPS on the smartphone to display speed, distance and pace data. Runners get a similar set of data displayed on their wrist. A golfing app, in conjunction with Freecaddie, is being developed that will work on 25,000 courses worldwide. Golfers can view current distance on a green on their wrist! Other apps are in the pipeline, the company said. More details here (http://getpebble.com).
Consumer Lifestyles
Acer Liquid Gallant Debuts
Acer has taken the wraps off the Liquid Gallant duo running Android Ice Cream Sandwich, targeting the lower end of the market.
The handsets feature a 4.3 inch display and are built on the MediaTek MT6575 processor, featuring a single-core ARM Cortex A9 clocked at 1 GHz and a PowerVR SGX531T graphic processing unit. The handsets have the same technical specifications, but one offers dual-SIM support. They include one GB of RAM and 4 GB of internal storage that can be expanded using a microSD card., a 5 megapixel camera and WiFi 802.11 b/g/n module.
ARM Powered Study Partner
Ergo Electronics has unveiled the 10” GoNote, a touch screen Android hybrid netbook, targeted at students.
The £149 ($235 US) netbook runs Android 4 (Ice Cream Sandwich) and is is powered by a 1.2 GHz Rockchip RK2918 ARM Cortex-A8 single core processor. It has 1GB of RAM and 8GB of built-in storage via microSD as well as 5 GB of cloud storage with Box.com. Students can Skype and Google+ with the front facing webcam.
ARM Powered Smartphone With Super AMOLED Plus
BLU Products has taken the wraps off the VIVO 4.3 – an Android based dual-SIM smartphone boasting a 4.3 inch Super AMOLED display.
The smartphone is powered by an ARM Cortex-A9 dual-core MediaTek MT6577 processor clocked at 1GHz.Along with 4GB of internal memory the smartphone includes a 8.0 MP camera to capture vivd images and has the ability to show 720p video on the HD camera.
Gumstix Waysmall Silverlode Computer
Gumstix Inc has debuted the ARM powered Waysmall Silverlode computer, a compact 11.0 x 4 .4cm, 1.8cm tall, low-wattage computer designed for developers of commercial and industrial vertical market applications.
The Waysmall Silverlode is powered by a Texas Instruments Sitara AM3703 processor
featuring an ARM Cortex-A8 Core. In addition to the small form factor, the Waysmall Silverlode consumes less than two-and-a-half watts of power, versus the six to seven watts of power used by other small form-factor remote solutions.
The Waysmall Silverlode computer features an 800 MHz Gumstix Overo EarthSTORM COM with a Tobi expansion board mounted inside an aluminum case. The computer ships with a 5V power supply, HDMI-to-DVI cable, USB OTG cable and an 8GB microSD card for booting to Ubuntu.
ARM Powered®Glasses Will Aid Visually Impaired
A research team at Oxford University in the UK is developing ARM Powered®âsmartâ glasses that will help people with common types of visual impairment, including age-related macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy to regain their ...
This seminar kicks of a series of seminars Arrow Electronics, Inc. is holding across different cities this fall focusing on next-generation embedded systems for engineers.
Find and compare ARM core-based devices from the major suppliers, and the tools that support them through this easy-to-use search engine from Embedded Developer.
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AIJI System Co., Ltd., headquartered in Korea, is a market leader in JTAG emulators, debuggers, and evaluation boards.
Its latest emulator, OPENice-A1000, supports ARM7, ARM9, ARM10, ARM11, Cortex processor families. OPENice-A1000 supports devices for CDMA & GSM and has compatibility with various debugger S/W such as ARM SDT/AXD, IAR C-Spy, LINUX GDB, & MS Platform Builder. For further details click here
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