ARM works to support open standards to optimize the web browser on ARM Powered HDMI Sticks, working with DLNA, WebKit, other open standards to have all set-top-box features work on ARM Powered set-top-boxes and HDMI Sticks. Here, ARM talks about working with FXI Technology on the Cotton Candy, running Linaro-optimized Ubuntu and the Webkit optimized web browser through Qt.
Category: MWC
Karim Yaghmour Presents Embedded Android #1 – Android Internals
Posted by – March 4, 2013
Karim Yaghmour – CEO – Opersys inc. http://opersys.com
While Android has been created for mobile devices — phones first and now tablets — it can, nonetheless, be used as the basis of any touch-screen system, whether it be mobile or not. Essentially, Android is a custom-built embedded Linux distribution with a very elaborate and rich set of user-space abstractions, APIs, services and virtual machine. This four-part workshop is aimed at embedded developers wanting to build touch-based embedded systems using Android. It covers Android from the ground up, enabling developers to get a firm hold on the components that make up Android and how they need to be adapted to an embedded system.
Specifically, Karim starts by introducing Android’s overall architecture and then proceeds to peel Android’s layer one-by-one. First, he covers the Android Open Source Project (AOSP), the open source project under which Android’s source code is released. He then digs into the native Android user-space, Android’s power tools, and covers how hardware support is implemented in Android. Given that Android is built on top of Linux, he also goes over some embedded Linux tricks and sees how the kernel is modified to support the Android user-space. In addition, he looks at the System Server, the Android Framework and core Android applications, and how to customize them.
Check back for part 2, 3 and 4 to be filmed and posted once a day over the next 3 days, while I am video-blogging here at the Linaro Connect conference.
Fujitsu Arrows X, 4.7″ 1080p 16.3 megapixel camera
Posted by – March 4, 2013
Qualcomm 1.7Ghz Quad-core built-in.
Qualcomm Life 2net platform
Posted by – March 4, 2013
The Qualcomm Life 2net platform transmits medical data back to the web and to physicians.
myTaxi app
Posted by – March 4, 2013
The taxi drivers install an app, the taxi users install the app to hail taxies, myTaxi has over 20 thousand taxies registered, 3 million downloads of the app.
Lenovo S6000 10.1″ MediaTek MT8389
Posted by – March 4, 2013
Here’s Lenovo’s MediaTek MT8389 Quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 tablet.
InvenSense gyroscopes
Posted by – March 4, 2013
Invensense is the leader in motion processing, MEMS gyroscope, and motion processing technologies for consumer electronics. They did the gyroscope in Wii Motion Plus, in the Nintendo 3DS, and their gyroscopes are now being integrated in smartphones, smart watches and more.
Lenovo A1000, 7″ 1024×600, MediaTek dual-core MT8377
Posted by – March 4, 2013
Lenovo releases this cheap MediaTek dual-core based tablet.
Gemtek FreePP voice-over-ip
Posted by – March 4, 2013
Gemtek is showing off their FreePP hardware for free peer-to-peer VOIP.
Immersion haptic feedback on smartphones
Posted by – March 4, 2013
Immersion shows some of their latest haptic feedback technologies embedded in smartphones. It requires the right kind of vibrator motors to be used in the right kind of way.
