ART's mission is "To participate in the design, creation and development of software and hardware entities. These entities will have intrinsic commercial value to ART, its partners and their customers from which ART will derive economic and technological benefits".

• Who are ART?
• What do ART do?
• How can ART help its business customers?
• ART capabilities
• Some ART Technologies

Who are ART?

• A group of software and hardware experts with over 100 person years experience developing ARM based systems.
• A wholly owned division of Acorn Computer Group, itself 57% owned by Olivetti Telemedia.
• Cambridge, UK based.
• Software/hardware capabilities predominately centered on utilising ARM based architectures.

What do ART do?

• Provide high quality innovative software and hardware technologies for partner/customer exploitation.
• Are committed to generating an expanding portfolio of licensable software and hardware designs.
• Provide consultancy at all levels of design/implementation/production of sophisticated technological entities.
• Create custom products.
• Supply standard products based on ARM designs.

How can ART help its business customers?

• detailed knowledge of ARM based macrocells and their integration and applicability;
• ARM software base;
• development tools;
• leading in image/video/sound, renderers/Codecs;
• operating systems;
• consultancy skills;
• o/s porting;
• tight code space optimisation;
• low component count production;
• highly vertically integrated CHRP solutions;
• provide product for research/design/production via our partner program;
• ARM/Intel heterogeneous multiprocessor designs;
• ARM/Multi ARM homogeneous multiprocessor designs;
• ARM based production capabilities;
• large s/w community providing a wide range of applications, utilities, custom code;
• operating systems:
  • TAOS
  • MACH based

Some ART Technologies

• ARM 7500 based computers
• ARM 610/710/700 based computers
• ARM/Intel ASICs
• JPEG/MJPEG/MPEG software/hardware
• Bread boards
• ROM based o/s