ARM is targeting higher performance processor design in smartphones and mobile Internet devices with the latest version of its RealView Development Suite.

An enhanced compiler is claimed to achieve up to 10% processor performance improvement. The tool suite is aimed at the ARM Cortex-M3, Cortex-R4, CortexA8 and Cortex-A9 processors and the Cortex-A9 MPCore multicore processor.

"As today's consumer electronics, particularly smartphones and mobile internet devices (MIDs) become increasingly sophisticated, powerful software
tools will be essential to enabling the development of new systems," said Mark Onions, director of marketing, System Design Division, ARM, speaking at the ARM Developer Conference in California.

The RealView Development Suite 4.0 Professional will aid design flexibility in these complex mobile devices by providing link-time code generation and profiler-driven compilation. The result is reduced code size, and so designers can either increase system functionality with no additional memory
requirement, or lower overall system cost.

Profiler-driven compilation enables code to be optimized based on actual use, which significantly improves software performance and responsiveness of applications on ARM processors.

The tool suite also features a new version of the ARM Profiler. Besides supporting long-duration profiling of fully optimized production code, the
new ARM Profiler now also supports Real-Time Streaming Instruction Trace.