2 years ago

Category: Software, Business, Security, Data, artificial-intelligence

Chip designer Arm has created a platform designed to make it easier for developers to quickly design and build software for the Internet of Things (IoT). The chip designer’s Arm Total Solutions for IoT is a multipronged initiative that includes faster development of systems-on-a-chip (SoCs), modern cloud-based development methodologies and an initiative to build out a surrounding ecosystem and enable developers to reuse software across the highly diverse range of IoT hardware. The goal is to create an IoT software development environment similar to that of mobile phones, where millions of apps have been created for thousands of different smartphones, according to Mohamed Awad, vice president of IoT and embedded for Arm. If developers had to buy every smartphone they wanted to deploy their app to, there would be fewer apps, less innovation and a lot of lost potential.

In addition, there is a lack of skills in building software and services that can be leveraged across multiple platforms and IoT software development is inefficient due to the need for physical hardware for developing and testing, which Virtual Hardware Target is designed to address.