Update on the Community

The homepage of the community has been changed to make it easier for you to jump to your preferred topic area in the community. The left column now lists the active places instead of having three places featured and rotating weekly depending on current activity or events. Let us know if you like that or if you preferred the old way...

I need to update the branding used on the mobile version of the community. This will require me to disable mobile access for an hour, the time I put everything right. I believe this will impact accessibility through the Android and iOS mobile apps and I will give notice with a post a silent announcement on the community homepage.

Featured Content

Every week, I pick a few items on the community I think you should see. You can also find featured content on the community homepage and on the overview page of each community.

• 10 Tips for a successful engineering resume from Jacob Beningo
• ASTC Evaluation Codec
• A question on multi-processor synchronization by LDREX/STREX
• How to run offline shader compiler?

Update on Reward Program

Instead of the usual Featured Member and Featured Partner, let me promote a few more this week with an update on the reward program. Points/views are counted from 1st January 2014.

You have until the end of March. Giving a correct answer is 10 points so ranking can still change. Points in the table below were correct as of last night.

More on the program in Member Rewards Program, IoT Prototyping Workshop, How to Search for Partners and Products.

Tip - Weekly Email Digest

You can change your preferences on how often you receive the email digest and you can also choose not to receive it anymore.

Because we believe it is useful, by default all members receive it weekly. To change it, go to your user preferences (you need to be logged in) and scroll down to Community Digest and don't forget to Save your change.

Time for a coffee now!

Update on the Community

We are currently investigating how we can improve the social sharing features. As it will require development to make the necessary improvements, it will unfortunately require time before we can roll this out.

Finally, we are working on improving documentation and creating more community help collaterals... That will be useful for the members who want to better understand how the community works. You can add what you'd like to learn by editing New FAQ Guidance Please.

Featured Content

Every week, I pick a few items on the community I think you should see. You can also find featured content on the community homepage and on the overview page of each community.

• Mobile World Congress and Embedded World take place next week, and these are two big shows for ARM
  • Embedded World - Ich bin bereit ! and Embedded World - The countdown has started
  • ARM Mali GPU demos at MWC 2014, Come meet with eyeSight at MWC 2014, Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2014.
• Share your opinion on Entering the Era of the ARM Desktop/Workstation
• To start on ARM Cortex-M processors, read Fundamentals of ARM microcontrollers from [email protected].

Featured Member

Thank you chinatiger for your interesting questions in our Chinese community. We have a dedicated space for Chinese speakers at 中文社区.

Featured Partner

I invite you to follow USA Firmware and discuss about the job of Firmware vs. Software Engineers in Time to change the definition of Firmware. Enough lousy code, let's get serious about this.

Thanks Bob Scaccia for sharing your insight on the subject!

Tip - More Helpful View to Browse Discussions

Because of member feedback we received, I switched the default view for Content and Places to show details instead of cards. Of course I didn't force that change on all existing members and left you to decide.

The benefits of the detailed list view are:

• Lists in order of last activity (thumbnails does this as well but less obviously),
• Shows the last activity timestamp on the right,
• More compact view,
• Threads with unread replies are in bold.

Thank you Chris Varnsverry for making that list...

Here is the visual comparison and how to switch views. Click on each picture for a bigger version:

Thumbnail or Card View	Detailed or List View

Feedback?

We are eager to hear from you.

• What do you think is good? Has the community helped you in any way?
• What is really bothering you and you'd like changed?

This is thanks to your feedback that we changed the default view to make it easier for you to use the community... So tell us! If we can do it straight away, we will. Otherwise, we will add it to the list to be prioritised.

You don't need to write a novel, a line is enough

You can either comment here, contact me in private or by emailing the team: [email protected].

Update on the Community

We're happy to announce we have over 200 companies that have claimed their partner space on the new platform, but there are still many yet to be monitored by an admin. If your company is an ARM Connected Community Partner, it would be great if you can search Find a Partner to double-check if your company has been claimed by an admin.

Not yet an ARM Connected Community Partner? Membership is free and is open to any company with a product that uses or complements ARM technology, or with a solution that helps in any stage of the design process for ARM Powered devices. Click here to Join the ARM Connected Community Partner Program

Featured Content

Every week, I pick a few items on the community I think you should see. You can also find featured content on the community homepage and on the overview page of each community.

• ARM Events 2014 with Partner Participation
• Sensor what? describes smart phones with smart sensors and wearable devices are areas wide open for innovation in a market that is emerging globally
• 50% off ARM Versatile Express development boards
• Usage of Neon unit in coding other than SIMD operations?

Featured Member

Sanjeev Verma of Aricent Group published the blog, Enabling GPU Compute on an ARM Mali-T600 GPU creates a power efficient HEVC decode solution

Featured Partner

Adeneo Embedded demonstrates their new fastboot on Freescale's i.MX 6 Quad SABRE SDP Platform

Tip - Are you new  to the ARM Connected Community?

We recognize the interface is rich in functionality, so please allow us to give you a quick introduction! Click here to read more about how and where to get started.

Feedback?

If you could take some time to tell us how you think we are doing, we would be delighted to get your feedback.

You can either comment here, contact us in private or by email: [email protected].

Update on the Community

We are excited to announce a new program that will reward the top members for their contributions to the community. See the document Point System, Status Level - Guide which provides examples of how you can earn points for your participation. Want to know where you stand in the rankings? Click here for the complete points standings.

Member Rewards Program Details:

• Top 3 Members with the most points at the end of each quarter will receive an ARM-based consumer product of ~$200 value. (First contest will be points earned from Jan. 1, 2014 to the end of Q1. Points do not carry over to the next quarter)
• Top Member with the most points at the end of 2014 will receive an ARM-based consumer product of ~$500 value.

Thank you to everyone for your contributions in helping to make a vibrant community!

Featured Content

Every week, I pick a few items on the community I think you should see. You can also find featured content on the community homepage and on the overview page of each community.

• IoT Prototyping Workshop Sponsored by ARM and Sprint
• Prototyping of ARM Cortex-M Processor systems in FPGA
• Using DS-5 Streamline with Mali on Google Nexus 10
• clean and invalidate dcache behavior for Cortex-A7

Featured User

Colin Walls of Mentor Graphics shares his favorite new tool in the recent Embedded Developer Interview: Colin Walls

Tip - Search or Filter Partners and Products

Looking for a specific partner or product? There are two ways to look for a partner/product by the search or filter functionality. View the following document that explains the simple process - Ways to Search or Filter Company or Products

For any questions, please do comment or post in Community Help.

Community Crash Course

Get the most out of the community and attend the Community Crash Course: Tips & Tricks WebEx Training on 28-Jan-2014 for All Members, hosted by Brad Nemire.

Feedback?

If you could take some time to tell us how you think we are doing, we would be delighted to get your feedback.

You can either comment here, contact us in private or by email: [email protected].

Wow, what an amazing success the new ARM Connected Community has been since the launch at ARM TechCon 2013. Thank you to the over 2,000 registered members that have published more than 11,000 pieces of content and have asked nearly 400 questions. It is proving to be the one-stop platform for developers and design engineers working with the ARM architecture to collaborate, discuss ideas and challenges, and stay updated on the latest news from ARM and our partners. As 2014 is just underway, I want to share with you some of the "most popular" from across the community.

Top 5 Posts with Most Views

• 128 bits is 64 bits too many by Ian Drew
• From Zero to Boot: Porting Android to your ARM platform by Vasileios Laganakos
• New Platform Bring-Up with DS-5 by Ronan Synnott
• ARM’s GPU roadmap; the WHY by Espen Oybo
• Ten Things to Know About big.LITTLE by Brian Jeff

Top 5 Employees with Most Points

• Lori Kate Smith
• Peter Harris
• Andy Frame (@andyframe_ARM)
• Martin Weidmann
• Katie Morgan

Top 5 Members with Most Points

• jensbauer
• Lou Covey
• Jacob Beningo
• Chin Beckmann
• Sylvie Boube-Politano

Top 5 Partners with Most Views

• STMicroelectronics
• Atmel
• Doulos
• Freescale
• Cadence Design Systems

Special thank you to the ARM employees that help manage each of the sub-groups: Android - Matthew Du Puy, Embedded - Brad Nemire, ARM Mali Graphics - Ellie Stone and Ryan Booth, Smart and Connected - Karthik Ranjan, SoC Implementation - Leah Schuth, ARM and Keil Tools - Ken Havens and Joe Alderson, China - Song Bin 宋斌 and Jenny Su 苏琴, News - Katie Morgan and Cara Forsythe, Find a Partner - Wenjun Zhang and Ping Zuo 左平, ARM TechCon 2013 - Desiree Joplin

Thank you again to all of you for helping with the success of the ARM Connected Community. This community was built for you - so please comment below on your thoughts of the new platform.

We look forward to a successful 2014!

Update on the Community

The implementation for the cookie pop-up correction is tomorrow Thursday 12th December 8am UK time. After it is corrected, we will have to accept one last time. Please do report if the annoying message keeps popping up after Thursday lunchtime UK time. I would like to thank you for your patience.

New content keeps coming with more than 100 new pieces posted during the last week. Replies to threads are on top of this 100. Most of our visitors are from the US/GB and the second language is simplified Chinese. We have a dedicated place in the community for Chinese content: 中文社区. Song Bin 宋斌 is available for any question you have on our Chinese community.

Featured Content

Every week, I pick a few items on the community I think you should see. You can also find featured content on the community homepage and on the overview page of each community.

• Neil Parris first part on system coherency: Extended System Coherency - Part 1 - Cache Coherency Fundamentals in ARM Processors
• 3D printing and micro-manufacturing with Robox in Atmel
• IDE Recommendation in ARM and Keil Tools
• HTML5, The Art of Illusion by Matt Spencer in ARM Mali Graphics

Featured User

Niall Cooling, the CEO of Feabhas has been answering quite a few questions in the processor section. Thank you Niall. Feabhas is an ARM Approved Training Center so if you need a training on ARM technology, ask him!

Tip - Moving Your Content - Join This Group

We already explained why, unless not relevant to any place, posting content on your profile was generally not the best. But what if you clicked publish a bit too soon and posted your content in the wrong place? You can simply move it. How Can I Move My Document/Discussion/Blog? - FAQ details how with a few screenshots.

Don't forget you need to join a group before you can contribute to it. Groups have a leading purple square icon. Joining topic area groups is free and instantaneous: you will have joined as soon as you click Join this group.

Feedback?

If you could take some time to tell us how you think we are doing, we would be delighted to get your feedback.

You can either comment here, contact us in private or by email: [email protected].

Update on the Community

We have had multiple users highlighting they cannot get rid of the cookie pop-up. This pop-up should only appear until you acknowledge it or flush your browser cache and is there to fulfill a legal requirement in Europe. Our software vendor is investigating how they can solve this annoying problem. Thanks for reporting it. In the meantime, a workaround which has often worked is to flush the browser cache fully.

We have exceeded 1000 members since the public launch of the community, almost a month ago. With the lead users who joined before we officially launched, it means we have about 1250 members registered on the site. Great to see that so many took the time to register when this is not required to access content.

Featured Content

Every week, I pick a few items on the community I think you should see. You can also find featured content on the community homepage and on the overview page of each community.

• Learn about ARM Mali Graphics products in What is behind Mali's current momentum? by Ellie Stone, our Mali community co-owner.
• Compile your software for the ARM architecture with Cross compilation for ARM from Gabor
• An update on Debian in Debian Mini-Conference at ARM Cambridge, November 14-17 2013 by stevemcintyre
• Learn about Linaro LCU13 Week in Review thanks to Jennifer Castelino posting links to both presentations and videos!

Featured User

Thanks Paul Kimelman from Texas Instruments for the interesting content on the Internet of Things, like Should BLE (now called Bluetooth Smart) be the backbone of IoT?.

Tip

Keep in mind that before contributing to a group (example: Embedded) you need to Join that group. If you have not joined the group, you will not see the actions list on the group overview page. If when posting, you try to select a place and it is greyed out and say you don't have the permission, it is most likely because you have not joined the group.

Happy Thanksgiving to American members!

and happy birthday to ARM, 23 years old today.

At the end of last week, we have corrected some of the missing URL redirects. It means that the popular blogs linked from other sites will automatically show the content in this new community.

Following members' feedback, the default redirect will stop pointing to the list of blogs, but will give some explanation and an easy way to list the blogs: Blogs Redirect - ARM Systems Upgraded.

Featured Content

Every week, I pick a few items on the community I think you should see. You can also find featured content on the community homepage and on the overview page of each community.

• Join the debate on What Makes a Great Programmer?
• Embedded Bits demonstrates a Linux Machine Vision : <1 Second Cold Boot using OpenCV
• asi and Scott helping williamtai on his ARM DS-5 Compiler issue: fatal error: No such file or directory

Featured User

This week jblyler's blog summarizing John Cornish's IoT keynote was the most popular blog: Gambling on the Design of IoT. Follow him to be notified of his next content!

Tip of the Week - Why You Should Not Use Your Company Name as User Name?

First, I strongly encourage all members not to interact with nameless accounts or company spaces with nameless accounts. Special User Accounts, Admins - FAQs details a few reasons why. In short, they are unlikely to reply.

The community is about people and personal contact, not just content from a company. The latter would be what you get on a website.

If you wish to post some content for your company, you can get a company space. You do NOT need a company profile. Also, keep in mind that as you will ask/reply to questions, you will most likely do it "personally" as opposed to be the official message from your employer.

Finally, I feel people like to to interact with other people, so I think we will all get more by keeping it personal!

New Help Videos, Use the Community More Efficiently

Brad Nemire posted two new videos in Community Help: Creating an @mention and Creating and Editing Your Profile. I encourage you to read them and give us some feedback. Thanks Ellie Stone for your help!

Would there be any other videos you would like us to do?

You are also invited to attend Tips & Tricks WebEx Training 19-Nov-2013 for All Members. Be sure to flag your interest to receive the web and phone conference details!

ARM Connected Community - an introduction by ARM CEO Simon Segars - YouTube