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In an evening organised by our YP representative, Georges Anke, the Ottawa LN was introduced to the intricacies of RISComputing and the ARM core processors.  This was held at the RA Centre on the 23rd February.


We were fortunate to welcome Graham Eatherley. Graham is a instructor at Carleton University in Ottawa where he currently teaches a group of 3rd years the "ins and outs" of real time systems. Graham is an experienced researcher and teacher. He worked in the Telecommunications industry for over 30 years and on retirement returned to school to complete post-graduate degrees in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. He is currently a Contract Instructor in the Engineering Faculty at Carleton University where he has taught several Microcomputer and Embedded Systems courses. Additionally he is involved with High School Outreach at Carleton and has developed and run learning programs in Arduino programming and Robotics. He has many years of experience designing systems using embedded microcontrollers, most recently with ARM systems. 


 


This talk was to understand the pervasive ARM processor. An ARM processor is one of a family of CPUs based on the RISC (reduced instruction set computer) architecture developed by Advanced RISC Machines (ARM). ARM makes 32-bit and 64-bit RISC multi-core processors. ARM is the industry's leading supplier of microprocessor technology, offering the widest range of microprocessor cores to address the performance, power and cost requirements for almost all application markets. Combining a vibrant ecosystem with over 1,000 partners delivering silicon, development tools and software, and with more than 90bn processors shipped, this technology is at the heart of a computing and connectivity revolution that is transforming the way people live and businesses operate.


 


Graham Eatherley gave an overview on how ARM processors operate, the internal architecture, why Reduced Instruction Set Computers are important, a walk through typical applications and how they use the ARM machine and the types of memory its use and varying types.


We made a video of the evening's presentation and hope to post that as soon as we edit it.