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Snowball is a low-cost, feature-rich developer board based on ST-Ericsson’s Nova™ A9500 application processor, embedding a dual-core ARM® Cortex™-A9 along with peripheral interfaces to about everything that ever can be imagined.

With the Snowball, you get easier access to leading-edge technology thus the means you need to accelerate development of system and software innovations. And even better, further stimulating the development and also opening up the possibilities for cooperation with other industry actors, there’s an entire family of Snowball developers out there.

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As writers at ARM, we always ask ourselves one particular question when we start to create a new document for a product: “What level of knowledge do I assume the audience will have?” If we assume too little, we are in danger of producing a large document that contains superfluous information. If we assume that the audience knows too much, then we risk losing them after the first couple of pages.

Meanwhile, the audience for these documents is trying to find information. Just like the Madonna film, “Desperately Seeking Susan,” where Madonna’s character searches for her soul-sister, the audience is “desperately seeking information.” They are looking for that vital piece of information to reach the next step in their development project. Typically, readers will need to sift through reams and reams of known information in the hope that they may find what they need, or worse, they may become lost in a morass of unfamiliar concepts.

So, the biggest problem that writers face when producing any technical document is that they need to accommodate a diverse audience with varying degrees of knowledge and understanding. Ideally, the writer needs to structure the information in a document such that it is both readily accessible and appropriate to the specific and immediate needs of ...