So it’s the 10th year for ARM® TechCon™. Hard to believe. How many have you been to? This will be my 9th year. (Our son was born the week 
before TechCon so I feel like I should get credit. I did do plenty of work for it before I went on early maternity leave.) This afternoon I thought I’d do a quick status update on the TechCon news that I have seen. Well when I saw just how many blogs there are with details of activities, I realized that I couldn’t fit them in a status update. When you take a gander at all of the blogs below, I think that you’ll agree that this could be the best and busiest TechCon yet.
My favorite:
Wearable Fitness Step Challenge Returns for ARM TechCon 2014 by Brad Nemire
(Now this is one of the events I am looking forward to the most. The smack talk has begun. Check out the first video by Adam Kerin. The second video from STMicroelectronics is, well, intimidating! The phrase 'amateurs vs. professionals' come to mind. 5x others - now that is a challenge. I've heard rumors of more to come...)
(update) Not to be out done, John Heinlein has added his own video
(update) Well the competition was even more spirited than at DAC. So Adam Kerin from Qualcomm (pictured below in front of the ocean) won day one with over 50,000 steps! Dave Tokic from Xilinx won Day 2 and Alec Bath from STMicroelectronics won the overall. I thought it was so cool to have 3 different winners. Well earned for sure.
ARM events:
ARM AAE training at ARM TechCon 2014 by Dave Lakin
Software Developers Workshop
Presentations from ARM TechCon 2014 Software Developers Workshop by Matthew Du Puy
ARM TechCon 2014 Software Developers Workshop Sneak Peek by Carissa Labriola
ARM TechCon Software Developer Workshop: Peripheral Code by Carissa Labriola
ARM TechCon 2014 -- Software Developer Workshop discussion by Matthew Du Puy
(updated)
New System IP tooling preview at ARM TechCon! by William Orme
ARM announcements and in the news (new section):
BeforeARM TechCon:
PayPal, HP and TI create "Order out of Chaos" by Lakshmi Mandyam
Meet the new ARM Cortex-M7 processor: supercharging embedded devices by Bee Hayes-Thakore and Thomas Ensergueix
Atmel blog ARM unveils 32-bit Cortex-M7 processor for the Internet of Things
Freescale blog The Embedded Beat: The new ARM® Cortex®-M7 | Freescale Community
STMicroelectronics Accelerates MCU-Developers’ Pace of Innovation with World’s First ARM Cortex-M7 Core-Based STM32 F7 Series MCU
No more Places, Cortex-M7, ARM TechCon, Shellshock & Comment by Email byAlban Rampon
big.LITTLE MP Improves Your Daily Mobile Experience (Part 1) by Govind Wathan
Mon Sept 29th and Sept 30th
HP Extends Benefits of ARM Architecture into the Datacenter with New Servers
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. (TSMC) and ARM set new Benchmarks for Performance and Power Efficiency with First Announced FinFET Silicon with 64-bit ARM big.LITTLE Technology
Telecom Industry and Vendors Unite to Build Common Open Platform to Accelerate Network Functions Virtualization
Freescale Helps Drive the Internet of Things Forward at ARM TechCon 2014
ARM Announces Debug Probe for High-Speed Serial Trace
ARM Enhances Safety-Related Tools Offering with TÜV Certification for the ARM Compiler
ARM and Synopsys Expand Collaboration to Improve Quality of Results and Time-to-Results for Leading-Edge ARMv8-A and ARMv7-A Cores
Heterogeneous Multiprocessing Gets a Boost with the New OpenCL for NEON Driver by Steve Steele
Oct 1
ARM Announces Device Platform and Free OS to Accelerate Internet of Things Deployment
New ARM Implementation Solutions Reduce Time to Market for FinFET Designs
Atmel Announces ARM Cortex-A5-based MPUs Optimized for 720p Video Playback and Advanced Security Functions
Atmel teams with ARM on IoT Development Platform (blog)
Day 1 of TechCon 2014 with Simon Segars, Atmel MCUs, Freescale Kinetis, STMicroelectronics STM32 F7, HP Moonshot, Dell storage servers, Somnium DRT and so much more by Andy Frame (@andyframe_ARM)
Oct 2
ARM and TSMC Unveil Roadmap for 64-bit ARM-based Processors on 10FinFET Process Technology
Atmel Samples New Family of High-performance ARM Cortex-M7-based MCUs Enabling Next-Generation IoT, Industrial and Automotive Applications
Nice coverage in EE Times from the Cortex-M7 TechCon session and panel with Atmel, Freescale and ST
Mali at Techcon 2014 by Tim Hartley
Oct 3
SemiWiki coverage of Samsung Foundry, GLOBALFOUNDRIES and ARM panel
IPSO Smart Objects: Data Interoperability for the Internet of Things by Michael Koster
ARM TechCon 2014 Tools Roundup by Joe Alderson
Oct 6
What System IP are you wearing? by Andy Nightingale
Drones, kids, tiny transistors and the IoT, what I learned at TechCon 2014 by David Blaza
Videos (new section)
Don't miss out on all the videos from the ARMFlix crew and
Partner activities:
Oct 3
ARM TechCon; the story so far... by Niall Cooling of Feabhas
Plenty of New Toys from Segger, IAR and Micrium at ARM TechCon this Week! by Mark Saunders
Oct 2
ARM TechCon 2014: All Things ARM-based AutomotivebyLinda Goncalves of Spansion
Oct 1
Infinite IP cores, infinite possibilities @ ARM TechCon 2014byAharon Etengoff
Accelerating the Time to Point of Interest by 50X Using Cadence Palladium Platform with ARM Fast ModelsbyFrank Schirrmeister
Before TechCon
ARM TechCon 2014 - The big reveal by Daniel O'Hara of SOMNIUM Technologies
Tons of technical sessions on Synopsys solutions at ARM TechCon 2014 by Phil DworskySynopsys (a wearable fitness step challenge competitor)
Getting a Glimpse at the Future Early – Cadence & ARM at ARM TechCon 2014! by Frank Schirrmeister
What Not to Miss at ARM TechCon 2014 by Brian Fuller of Cadence Design Systems (a wearable fitness step challenge competitor)
(updated)
Getting Ready for ARM Techcon 2014 by Jason Andrews of Carbon Design Systems
ARM TechCon - See you there? by Colin Walls of Mentor Graphics Corporation
Did I miss anyone’s TechCon news? Please let me know! I’ll update this blog with more news as I see it. Don’t forget to follow the Twitter news with #ARMTechCon.
So my annual regret at TechCon is how much I miss out on. I’m already triple-booked at some times. Yet, I always get so much out of what I do see.
Please let me know what you are looking forward to and what your favorite part was!
