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ARM Profiler for Symbian OS: ARM and Symbian Collaborate to Enable Feature-Rich, Low-Power Advanced Mobile Applications
21 October 2008ARM Profiler for Symbian OS
empowers developers to deliver high performance and reduced power
consumption for Symbian OS-based mobile phones
CAMBRIDGEAND LONDON, UK – Oct. 21, 2008 – ARM [(LSE: ARM); (Nasdaq: ARMH)] and Symbian Limited today announced at the Symbian Smartphone Show in London, ARM® Profiler for Symbian OS™. As part of the recently-launched RealView® Development Suite 4.0 Professional, the ARM Profiler enables developers of mobile phone applications running on Symbian OS to add enhanced features and reduce power consumption. Developers
can quickly and accurately target their optimizations with immediate
feedback on actual application performance and with the rapid
identification of bottlenecks across a broad range of performance
measurements, bringing their applications to market faster and with
lower risk.
“Consumers expect mobile phone applications to deliver advanced features, with the best possible performance and minimal power consumption,” said Mike Whittingham, vice president of Ecosystem Development, Symbian. “Developers of complex mobile applications have come to expect the level of power management and performance optimization found within Symbian OS. The new ARM Profiler provides an analysis environment that enables developers to maximize the performance and power efficiency of their applications, on ARM technology-based mobile phones.”
The industry-leading capabilities of the ARM Profiler for Symbian OS build upon ARM’s trusted profiling technology which enables non-intrusive, long duration application profiling on hardware or system models; code coverage information, even when source code is unavailable; and the ability to profile fully optimized software. New benefits for developers using the ARM Profiler include:
- The ability to profile applications running on Symbian OS
- Profile-driven compilation for automatic code optimization, based on runtime performance
- Instruction trace replay for a deeper understanding of application performance
Many profiling tools require code annotation or system instrumentation, which do not provide an accurate representation of application performance or allow profiling capabilities only for very short durations due to buffer limitations. ARM Profiler surpasses these limitations with the ability to analyze fully optimized images, analyze for unlimited durations using the streaming trace feature in RealView Trace 2 and profile the instructions executing on the real time system models from ARM. In addition, with the capacity to analyze the applications running on Symbian OS, engineers can now obtain deeper insight into how applications are affected by system resources and shared libraries for a better understanding of how applications perform as part of a complex system.
“Symbian and ARM have once again collaborated to deliver the very best power and performance advantages for customers using Symbian’s industry-leading mobile operating system,” said John Cornish, vice president and general manager, System Design Division, ARM. “The innovative features of the ARM Profiler build upon ARM’s established technology to provide unparalleled trace and optimization capabilities, significantly streamlining the development process for next-generation mobile applications running on Symbian OS.”
Availability
ARM Profiler for Symbian OS is available now as part of the ARM RealView Development Suite 4.0 Professional .
About Symbian Limited
Symbian
is a software licensing company that develops and licenses Symbian OS,
the market-leading open operating system for mobile phones.
Symbian licenses Symbian OS to the world's leading handset manufacturers and has built close co-operative business relationships with leading companies across the mobile industry. During Q2 2008, 19.6 million Symbian mobile phones were sold worldwide to over 250 major network operators, bringing the total number of units shipped up to 30 June 2008 to 226 million.
Symbian has its headquarters in London, United Kingdom, with offices in the United States, United Kingdom, Asia (India, P.R. China, and Korea) and Japan. For more information, please visit www.symbian.com.
About ARM
ARM
designs the technology that lies at the heart of advanced digital
products, from wireless, networking and consumer entertainment solutions
to imaging, automotive, security and storage devices. ARM’s
comprehensive product offering includes 32-bit RISC microprocessors,
graphics processors, enabling software, cell libraries, embedded
memories, high-speed connectivity products, peripherals and development
tools. Combined with comprehensive design services, training, support
and maintenance, and the company’s broad Partner community, they provide
a total system solution that offers a fast, reliable path to market for
leading electronics companies. More information on ARM is available at http://www.arm.com.
ENDS
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Symbian First To Provide Native Support for ARMv6 Architecture
02 December 2002LONDON, UK, AND CAMBRIDGE, UK – Dec. 2, 2002 –Symbian Ltd, developer of Symbian OS, a de facto industry standard operating system for advanced mobile phones, and ARM [(LSE:ARM) (Nasdaq:ARMHY)], the industry's leading provider of 16/32-bit embedded RISC microprocessor solutions, today announced Symbian's native support for the ARMv6 architecture in Symbian OS.
Symbian and ARM have a long-term, strategic partnership that aims to drive development of innovative solutions for mobile devices. The companies collaborated for more than a year to enable concurrent development of the ARMv6 architecture and future versions of Symbian OS. This collaboration has resulted in Symbian's development of a highly optimized system OS solution. Utilizing the physically addressed caches in the ARM1136J-S™ core reduces Symbian OS context switch times, which provides better memory management performance and reduced power consumption through eliminating forced cache flushing by the operating system – both of which are critical aspects for mobile devices.
"Because Symbian OS has been licensed by the world's leading mobile phone manufacturers, Symbian has unique insight into the industry's future requirements. Symbian and ARM work in strategic partnership to deliver solutions which meet those requirements," said David Wood, executive vice president of Partnering, Evangelism & Research, Symbian. "The ARMv6 architecture-based Symbian OS solution improves essential power and memory performance whilst also enabling the enhanced wireless multi-media capabilities that Symbian OS licensees want to build into their future products."
ARM recently introduced its first ARMv6 architecture-based solutions, the ARM1136J-S core, which is included in the ARM11™ PrimeXsys™ Platform. (See separate press releases…ARM Sets Performance Standard with Two New ARM11 Cores...ARM Launches New ARM11 PrimeXsys Platform…Oct. 14, 2002). Texas Instruments has licensed both of the new ARM11 cores from ARM, for its next-generation OMAP microprocessors and wireless chipsets.
"The Symbian OS coupled with TI's ARM® core-based OMAP™ platform provides wireless manufacturers and application developers with the performance and power efficiency required to deliver advanced multimedia applications," said Alain Mutricy, TI vice president and OMAP Platform general manager. "We are committed to working closely with Symbian and ARM to ensure that future OMAP processors that leverage the new ARM11 cores are highly optimized for the Symbian OS."
"The combination of an ARM11 PrimeXsys Platform using the ARMv6 architecture and the Symbian OS, will provide a rich multimedia experience for mobile phone users," said Mary Inglis, director, Operating Systems Business Development, ARM. "Writing applications for Symbian OS which utilize the new multimedia SIMD instructions in the ARMv6 architecture, will allow applications developer to create more compelling content for a given clock speed without compromising battery life".
Symbian OS products powered by microprocessors based on the ARM1136J-S core and the ARM1136JF-S™ core are expected to come to market in 2004.
About ARM
ARM is the industry's leading provider of 16/32-bit embedded RISC microprocessor solutions. The company licenses its high-performance, low-cost, power-efficient RISC processors, peripherals and system-on-chip designs to leading international electronics companies. ARM also provides comprehensive support required in developing a complete system. ARM's microprocessor cores are rapidly becoming a volume RISC standard in such markets as portable communications, hand-held computing, multimedia digital consumer and embedded solutions.
About Symbian
Symbian develops and licenses Symbian OS, the de facto industry
standard operating system for data-enabled mobile phones. Symbian has
licensed Symbian OS to the world's top handset manufacturers including
Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, Siemens and Sony Ericsson. In total, Symbian
OS licensees account for more than 80 percent of worldwide mobile phone
sales.
Symbian's mission is to create a mass market for Symbian OS mobile phones by enabling Symbian OS licensees to build winning products. Publicly announced products based on Symbian OS include the SonyEricsson P800 Smartphone, Nokia 7650, 3650, N-gage.
For more information, please go to www.symbian.com
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ARM is a registered trademark of ARM Limited. ARM11, ARM1136J-S, ARM1136JF-S and PrimeXsys are trademarks of ARM Limited. All other brands or product names are the property of their respective holders. "ARM" is used to represent ARM Holdings plc (LSE: ARM and Nasdaq: ARMHY); its operating company ARM Limited; and the regional subsidiaries ARM INC.; ARM KK; ARM Korea Ltd.; ARM Taiwan; ARM France SAS; and ARM China.
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