News highlights:
- Arm IoT Total Solution Provide full-stack solutions to significantly accelerate IoT product development and increase product return on investment
- Arm virtual hardware No need to develop on the physical chip, realize the software and hardware co-design, and accelerate the product design speed by up to two years
- A new Arm ecosystem plan called Centaur Project Will promote the development of a serviceable market and expand the standards and frameworks required for IoT software innovation
Arm today launched Arm® Total Solutions for the Internet of Things, a unique Internet of Things (IoT) design method that will lay the foundation for a new Internet of Things economy.
Arm Total Solutions for IoT will simplify and modernize software development, thereby accelerating the time to market for developers, original equipment manufacturers and service providers at all stages of the IoT value chain, and shortening product design cycles by up to two years.
“Through a radical change in system design, Arm is in a unique position to promote a new Internet of Things economy, comparable to the form, speed and scale of the application economy in the smartphone industry,” Said Mohamed Awad, vice president of Arm IoT and Embedded.
“Arm Total Solutions for the Internet of Things changes the way we provide key technologies to the entire ecosystem and demonstrates our significant and continuous investment in software, which will enable developers to innovate for global influence.”
The new virtual hardware target will shorten the product design cycle by two years
Based on the mature foundation of Arm Corstone™, Arm Corstone™ is a proven integrated subsystem that accelerates the time to market of more than 150 designs by Arm chip partners. Arm Total Solutions for IoT introduces software developers, OEMs and service providers Arm Virtual Hardware Targets. This new cloud-based product provides a virtual model of the Corstone subsystem, enabling software development without the need for a physical chip. Arm Virtual Hardware brings modern agile software development methods such as continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD), DevOps and MLOps to the Internet of Things and embedded platforms without the need to invest in complex hardware farms.
Since the accurate model of Arm-based SoC provides a mechanism to simulate memory, peripherals, etc., software can now be developed and tested before silicon becomes available. This ultimately shortens the typical product design cycle from an average of five years to just three years. It allows Arm chip partners to obtain customer feedback on the chip before it is taped out, while enabling the entire IoT value chain to easily develop and test the code on the latest IP before the chip is available.
Arm virtual hardware is Available on AWS Marketplace Arm partners are already using it to accelerate innovation and speed time to market.
Consider use cases when designing to simplify development
Arm Total Solutions for IoT provides complete solutions designed for specific use cases, allowing developers to focus on what is really important-innovation and differentiation across different applications and devices. It has everything needed to simplify the design process and simplify product development, including hardware IP, software, machine learning (ML) models, advanced tools (such as new virtual hardware targets), application-specific reference code, and from the world’s largest The support of the IoT ecosystem.
The first configuration of Arm’s overall solution for the Internet of Things is now available to solve general computing and ML workload use cases, including examples of ML-based keyword recognition. Provided today are virtual hardware targets from Arm SoC partners for multiple configurations of Arm Corstone-300 subsystems, including Arm Cortex®-M55 processors and Arm Ethos™-U55 microNPUs.You can read More details here.
Arm is fully committed to this comprehensive solution approach and has developed a strong roadmap for future solutions, which will cover applications such as speech recognition and object recognition.
Standardization is essential for scale
In order to allow industry participants to use the software and services they have invested in on the widest possible platform, Arm also launched Project Centauri. What Centauri Project aims to achieve for the broad Arm Cortex-M software ecosystem Project Cassini Contribute to the Cortex-A ecosystem by providing a set of device and platform standards, as well as reference implementations for device startup, security, and cloud integration.
Project Centauri API includes support for PSA certification and Open-CMSIS-CDI, which is a standard cloud-to-device specification that minimizes the workload required to enable different cloud solutions and real-time operating systems. This will reduce engineering costs, accelerate time to market, enable large-scale IoT deployments, and improve the security of the entire Cortex-M ecosystem.
Leading the ecology into a new era of the Internet of Things
To date, Arm partners have shipped more than 70 billion Arm Cortex-M-based devices, and there is no sign of slowing down, as IoT chips are expected to have an average compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of close to 15% by 2026 , According to MordorIn order to seize this growth opportunity, Arm is committed to ensuring that its ecosystem is at the forefront of accelerating IoT innovation, through Arm Total Solutions for IoT and Flexible arm access.
This represents the beginning of a new era of the Internet of Things-one of the true software and hardware system-level collaborative design. Arm has the unique advantage of combining software and hardware developers to create dedicated computing and unlock the economic benefits of the Internet of Things. From smartphones to data centers-now the Internet of Things-the system is designed with the key to accelerating innovation and taking full advantage of the professional processing power provided by the Arm ecosystem, no matter where the calculations occur.
