Enabling Software-Hardware Co-Design to Accelerate IoT and ML Development 

Arm Virtual Hardware is an evolution of Arm's modelling technology delivering accurate models of Arm-based SoCs for application developers to build and test software before and after silicon and hardware availability. It runs as a simple application in the cloud for simulating memory and peripherals, removing the complexity of building and configuring board farms for testing using modern agile software development practices such as continuous integration and continuous development CI/CD (DevOps) and MLOps workflows.

Features and Benefits

Develop Software with Confidence

Replace physical hardware with a mature, instruction accurate and extensible modeling engine, enabling modern software development best practices for IoT and endpoint AI applications.
Maximum Scalability

Easily run and scale CI infrastructure in the cloud with potentially thousands of virtual boards being launched in seconds. Rapidly experiment with and test complex multi-device configurations.
Accelerating Development

Start developing and testing software quickly on Arm-based SoCs without the need of physical targets and using modern agile software development practices such as CI/CD (DevOps) and MLOps workflows.

Get Started on Arm Virtual Hardware

Arm Virtual Hardware is a key part of Arm Total Solutions for IoT, a comprehensive solution for accelerating IoT development. The first Total Solutions for IoT are based on Corstone-300, which provides the fastest way to integrate Cortex-M55 and Ethos-U55 to build low-power, high-performance endpoint AI systems.

 

Arm Virtual Hardware for Corstone-300 is available as a public beta on AWS Marketplace as an Amazon Machine Image (AMI). To help developers get started, AWS are offering more than 100 hours of free AWS EC2 CPU credits for the first 1,000 qualified users. Click on the button below to complete the form and take advantage of this special offer. Not currently available on AWS in Mainland China.

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Leveraging IoT Software at Scale

Arm works with our partner ecosystem to help customers accelerate development and unleash the potential of IoT through powerful technology and innovation.

By bringing together foundational standards, security initiatives and the extensive Cortex-M ecosystem, Project Centauri enables software to be leveraged across cloud service providers and the diverse hardware of the embedded edge to drive rapid, exponential IoT growth with Arm Cortex-M.

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