Up in ARMs

by Jim Venable 19. August 2009 11:39

Monday the 17th was another banner day for the Serial Port Memory Technology consortium. It was announced that ARM LTD is joining the consortium as a promoter. This is great news indeed. ARM owns the CPU IP market for the mobile space. You would be hard pressed to find a cell phone that does not have an ARM CPU core embedded in it at some level. I've been spending the last few days attending the ARM Partner Meeting in Cambridge England listening to ARM's executives outline the future for the company. Let me tell you, they are not letting up one bit. Since most of the material was presented under NDA I can't be specific but let me just say the future is bright not only for ARM but for those who want to design the next generation feature-rich mobile product.

We are looking forward to adding ARM's expertise in defining future SPMT specifications.  Their knowledge of both CPU architecture and system level design for the mobile space will be invaluable.

On another note: The SPMT Technical Working Group has been hard at work resolving the last bits of the SPMT specification.  The goal is to get the approved spec out by the end of the third quarter. Looks like they are on track to get it done.

 

 

 

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Jim Venable is a 25 year veteran of the semiconductor and semiconductor IP industry. In the early years he participated in the formation of what became known as the Electronic Design Automation (EDA) industry by working on one of the very first commercially available circuit simulation and schematic capture programs. He later forged alliances with industry leaders to bring to market a new CPU architecture and was instrumental in driving the PowerPC architecture into the market. He continued his alliance efforts by forming an industry-first third party program for tools to design products with new CPU architectures.  More recently, Mr. Venable has been forming relationships between industry giants to develop and support a new memory interface architecture initially targeted at the mobile market segment. These companies came together to form a new consortium chartered with making Serial Port Memory Technology an open industry standard enabling a new generation of mobile devices. Mr. Venable was appointed president of SPMT, LLC the entity responsible for managing the licensing, promotion, and administration of the SPMT specification.

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