Common Tasks

Compiling C and C++ code for Arm

Get started compiling for Arm with Arm software tools.

Optimizing your software

Get started optimizing your software.

Writing Arm assembly code

Get started learning Arm assembly language with our curated resources.

Developing embedded software

Building your first embedded image

Retargeting output to UART

Creating an event-driven embedded image

Changing Exception level and Security state in an embedded image

Running software on your target

Get started transferring your executable image to a target device.

Understanding how your design will perform

Understand what performance you can expect from your system and discover different techniques you can use to analyze performance.

Connecting target hardware to a debugger

Find out how to connect your target hardware to a host to perform debugging.

Debugging your software

Get started investigating and trouble-shooting the operation of your code.

Implement embedded continuous integration: Docker and Jenkins

Learn how to use Jenkins and Docker in a continuous integration development flow with Arm Fast Models to help minimize problems during software development and provide a consistent and automated foundation for your embedded software development work.

How to use the Python wrapper for CMSIS-DSP with biquads

Learn how to use the CMSIS-DSP Python wrapper, and how a CMSIS-DSP API is represented in Python.

Get started with Arm Fast Models

Learn how to download, license, and install Arm Fast Models, and then run an example system with a simple bare-metal hello world software application.

Getting started with Docker

Learn how you can use Docker to simplify multi-architecture application deployment on both embedded devices and servers.

Improve embedded software unit testing efficiency

Learn how to increase your unit testing throughput, by running more tests in less time.

Analyze performance on the Raspberry Pi with Arm Streamline

Explore Linux application and system performance analysis and learn how to find where a system is spending time.

Developing graphics and gaming software

Get started learning techniques and best practices to improve the performance of your applications.

Get started with Graphics Analyzer

Look at the graphics API calls in an application and identify any rendering defects.

Get started with Streamline

Capture a profile of your application running on an unrooted Android device, and analyze it using Streamline's interactive charts and data views.

Get started with Mali Offline Compiler

Perform offline performance analysis for shader programs.

Get started with Performance Advisor

Generate an easy-to-read performance summary from a Streamline capture.

Advanced VR graphics techniques

Standalone and mobile virtual reality (VR) requires high performance  and efficiency from a GPU for the highest quality end user experience. Read our guide on creating VR applications on Arm Mali GPUs with Unity.

Real-time 3D art best practices: texturing

This guide discusses texture optimizations that can help your games and look better, and run more smoothly.

Real-time 3D art best practices: geometry

This guide highlights some key geometry optimizations for 3D assets. Geometry optimizations can make a game both more efficient, and perform better on mobile platforms.

Real-time 3D art best practices: materials and shaders

This guide discusses material and shader optimizations that can help your games to look great, and run more efficiently.