ARM Active Assist Offers ARM Partners Targeted Onsite Expert Advice to Help Teams Better Optimize ARM Subsystem Designs

CAMBRIDGE, England, October 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ARM ((LSE: ARM); (Nasdaq: ARMH)) today announced the availability of its new Active Assist on-site service to meet ARM(R) IP Partners' demand for rapid IP deployment. Active Assist will help embedded system designers, implementers and programmers of ARM-based platforms to shorten their time to market by quickly gaining the engineering expertise on ARM IP that is most relevant to their design project. The service will offer customers architectural design advice to ensure best practice techniques are adopted, thereby helping achieve optimal ARM subsystem design. In addition, project monitoring and proactive technical feedback during the lifecycle of the customer project will help to reduce time to market and increase design-in confidence for new ARM Partners.

Active Assist helps make engineering teams more effective on ARM IP through a range of customized deployment services, including:

    - Tailored training customized to project requirements, delivering the
      most relevant knowledge in the shortest time possible
    - On-site design and flow auditing from dedicated ARM analysts to
      optimize the team set-up for ARM deployment
    - Assistance on delivering high-performance, energy-efficient SoC
      implementations through the combination of ARM's processor and Fabric
      IP in conjunction with ARM's Physical IP portfolio of highly optimized,
      leading-edge cell libraries, memory compilers and interface products
    - Regular correspondence through project monitoring to track milestones
      and ensure constant checking against best-practice ARM design
      techniques
    - Comprehensive technical design reviews before design sign-off to give
      confidence that the ARM subsystem design is optimal
    - Assistance with test chip and debug environment set-up to get the
      prototyping environment up-and-running as fast as possible when first
      silicon is returned

'We are helping our Partners help themselves,' said Paul Elbro, VP and general manager, ARM Services. 'The ARM Active Assist service aids engineering teams coming up to speed on ARM IP to benefit directly from our design expertise. We are in a unique position to offer this high value service to adopters of ARM processor-based technology.'

The customized deployment services offered within the ARM Active Assist service can be acquired in distinct service packages tailored to meet different project demands.