ARM Profiler for Symbian OS: ARM and Symbian Collaborate to Enable Feature-Rich, Low-Power Advanced Mobile Applications
October 21 2008 - 4:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
ARM Profiler for Symbian OS Empowers Developers to Deliver High
Performance and Reduced Power Consumption for Symbian OS-Based
Mobile Phones CAMBRIDGE, England and LONDON, October 21
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ARM [(LSE:ARM); (NASDAQ:ARMH)] and
Symbian Limited today announced at the Symbian Smartphone Show in
London, ARM(R) Profiler
(http://www.arm.com/products/DevTools/RVP.html) for Symbian OS(TM).
As part of the recently-launched RealView(R) Development Suite 4.0
Professional (http://www.arm.com/products/DevTools/RVDSPro.html),
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. For more information, please visit:
http://www.arm.com/products/DevTools/RealViewSoftwareDevelopment.html.
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 http://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/. ARM and RealView are registered 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; its operating company ARM Limited; and the regional
subsidiaries: ARM, Inc.; ARM KK; ARM Korea Ltd.; ARM Taiwan
Limited; ARM France SAS; ARM Consulting (Shanghai) Co. Ltd.; ARM
Belgium N.V.; AXYS Design Automation Inc.; ARM Germany GmbH; ARM
Embedded Technologies Pvt. Ltd.; and ARM Norway, AS. SYMBIAN MEDIA
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