Year: 2011

$5 Sitara AM335x ARM Cortex-A8 and BeagleBone

Posted by Charbax – November 1, 2011
Category: Development Boards, Other, Exclusive videos, Texas Instruments, ARM TechCon

Texas Instruments is launching a $5 ARM Cortex-A8, it’s re-optimized for specific tasks, it can go in tablets, but it can also be used in industrial and medical applications, and certain custom uses, where this can be thought of a high-end microprocessor yet very low cost, it starts at $5 for ordering 100 thousand units. It’s an ARM Cortex-A8 performance for industrial applications at the cost and power usage of ARM9 Microprocessor. TI’s Beagleboard.org community is launching the new $89 BeagleBone to develop on this platform. Watch this 20-minute presentation of this project by TI’s Jakob Alamat, director of marketing for TI’s ARM Microprocessor Sitara platform:

Read the full press release.

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MHL Consortium shows some of the latest MHL features

Posted by Charbax – October 30, 2011
Category: Laptops, Smartphones, Set-top-boxes, Other, Exclusive videos, Samsung, Android

There are now 2 HDTVs that are MHL compliant, the Toshiba WL800A and the Samsung UN46D7000 now also got a firmware update that ads MHL support. Possibly that all new HDTVs will include this functionality. It allows for charging MHL compliant phones and tablets and to remote control them with the TV remote through one simple cable and one Micro-USB connector. Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich might add new MHL features to the UI, otherwise the MHL Consortium is trying to convince app developers and smart phone makers to design the apps and the OS to take advantage of the 1920×1080 resolution of the HDTV when using the HDMI output, to provide higher resolution user interfaces, higher resolution games, the ARM Processors and GPU in those phones and tablets are now getting powerful enough to output full 1080p UIs, videos and graphics, it’s time for the industry to take advantage of that! One pocketable phone can now combine the features of Android, Chrome OS and Google TV, it’s now a phone, a desktop, a set-top-box and a home console all in one!

OLPC XO-1.75 hands-on

Posted by Charbax – October 30, 2011
Category: Laptops, Exclusive videos, Marvell, ARM TechCon, Pixel Qi, OLPC

I got to play with the new Marvell Armada PXA618 powered One Laptop Per Child XO-1.75 laptop during the ARM Technology Conference. It seems to already be very stable and run very fast, although this is still a beta prototype, with beta software, OLPC, Red Hat, Marvell still have some work to do to optimize the software and complete the hardware so that it can be mass produced and shipped to children around the world starting early next year. Here in this video I walk around with it outdoors for a few minutes and show you some of how it looks like.

B Labs demonstrates Virtualizating 2 OS on ARM

Posted by Charbax – October 30, 2011
Category: Software, Other, Exclusive videos, Texas Instruments, ARM TechCon, Android

B Labs can run 2x Android OS, for example one secure business install and one for personal use, or to run Android and a version of Linux.

FirstView pre-approves outsourcing partners in India for US

Posted by Charbax – October 30, 2011
Category: Other, Exclusive videos, Freescale, ARM TechCon, Android

FirstView pre-approves potential outsourcing partners and suppliers in India and elsewhere, to enable reliable outsourcing of ARM related PCB design and other ARM optimizations work, tablet, set-top-box designs and more.

ST Microelectronics STM32F4

Posted by Charbax – October 30, 2011
Category: Development Boards, Exclusive videos, STMicroelectronics, ARM TechCon

ST is the current leader in ARM Cortex-M series shipments, those microprocessors go into everything.

Marvell Armada 618 in the Vizio V-Tab 8″ capacitive sub-$200 tablet

Posted by Charbax – October 30, 2011
Category: Tablets, Exclusive videos, Marvell, ARM TechCon, Android

Marvell provides this low leakage highly optimized single core Armada 618 now in end consumer products and reaching sub-$200 pricing.

ARM Cortex-M4 hardware accelerated Mp3 playback

Posted by Charbax – October 30, 2011
Category: Development Boards, PMPs, Other, Exclusive videos, Freescale, ARM TechCon

ARM Cortex-M4 with a DSP in the Freescale K60 Tower Board to demonstrate hardware accelerated Mp3 playback.

Update on the ST Ericsson SNOWBALL ARM Cortex-A9 development board

Posted by Charbax – October 30, 2011
Category: Other, Exclusive videos, ST-Ericsson, ARM TechCon, Android, Ubuntu

The SKY-S9500-ULP-CXX aka SNOWBALL has been available as a development board for the ST Ericsson ARM Cortex-A9 processor for about 4 months now. Here’s an update on how they are doing. Find more at http://igloocommunity.org

Ericsson HSPA+ and LTE modems

Posted by Charbax – October 30, 2011
Category: Tablets, Laptops, Other, Exclusive videos, ST-Ericsson, ARM TechCon

Ericsson is one of the leaders in cellular network infrastructure, for the past 4 years they also make HSDPA, HSPA+ and now also LTE modems to embed in Tablets, Laptops and more.

Charbax Cyborg: How I video-blog, Live and On-demand

Posted by Charbax – October 29, 2011
Category: Displays, Cameras, Wearables, Smart Glass, Texas Instruments, ARM TechCon, Kopin

This is how I was walking around the ARM TechCon 2011, with the OMAP3530 Powered Kopin Golden-i Headmounted display (voice-controlled and with head-tracking) to monitor the live Ustream IRC chat, a USB webcam on my head streaming live video to Ustream through the Marvell Armada 618 Powered OLPC XO-1.75 in my bag (using another netbook when Marvell was showcasing the XO-1.75 at their booth), a T-Mobile 4G Mobile Hotspot ($50/3GB/month/prepaid/$141-Mifi), and my nearly 4-year old Sanyo HD1000 (9mbitps 720p) with the external Sennheiser MKE400 shotgun microphone.


Source: ti.com

I also have the new higher quality JVC GC-PX10 but its 24/36mbitps 1080p50 recording bitrate is too high to upload on the relatively slow upload speed at this conference. At the San Francisco Downtown University Campus last weekend, the upload speed was 100mbitps so there I filmed all 16 videos at the OLPC Summit with that camera, for most of which you can even download the full original camera sample video file using Google Docs separately linked under each video.

Mike Muller, ARM CTO, ARMv8 64-bit launch interview

Posted by Charbax – October 28, 2011
Category: Exclusive videos, ARM TechCon, ARM

ARM launches the 64bit ARMv8 Architecture. Here’s my interview with ARM’s CTO Mike Muller on the day of the announcement.


Simon Segars, ARM Inc President, Interview at ARM TechCon 2011

Posted by Charbax – October 28, 2011
Category: Exclusive videos, ARM TechCon, ARM

Simon Segars is the President of the US division of ARM. Here’s an interview with him at ARM TechCon 2011 about the state of the ARM industry.

ARM Cortex-A15

Posted by Charbax – October 28, 2011
Category: Laptops, Exclusive videos, ARM TechCon, ARM, Android

Nandan Nayampally, ARM’s Director of CPU Product Marketing provides an overview of the new and upcoming ARM Cortex-A15 processor, with its new optimized design it can reach huge new ARM Powered performance.

ARM Mali Graphics news at ARM TechCon 2011

Posted by Charbax – October 28, 2011
Category: Exclusive videos, ARM TechCon, ARM, Android

The ARM Media Processing Division’s Jem Davies and Ian Smythe talk about the latest news on the ARM Mali Graphics technology, implementation, performance and the technological direction which we can look forward to.

ARM Cortex-A7, big.LITTLE

Posted by Charbax – October 28, 2011
Category: Exclusive videos, ARM TechCon, ARM

Nandan Nayampally, ARM’s Director of CPU Product Marketing provides an overview of this new ARM Processor announcement with information about how it is designed, how it works, where it can be used.

Gary Smith EDA talks about the state of the ARM industry

Posted by Charbax – October 28, 2011
Category: EDA, Exclusive videos, ARM TechCon

Gary Smith is an industry expert at http://garysmitheda.com

ARM CTO Mike Muller Keynote

Posted by Charbax – October 28, 2011
Category: Exclusive videos, ARM TechCon, ARM

ARM is launching the 64bit ARMv8 processor. This is the keynote video. I’ll link to the official video if they release it.

Freescale i.MX6 Quad Core at ARM TechCon 2011

Posted by Charbax – October 28, 2011
Category: Tablets, Exclusive videos, Freescale, ARM TechCon, Android

Freescale is showcasing the performance of their Quad Core ARM Cortex-A9 i.MX6 Quad processor.

Latest news from Texas Instruments at ARM TechCon 2011

Posted by Charbax – October 27, 2011
Category: Tablets, Laptops, Smartphones, Set-top-boxes, Exclusive videos, Texas Instruments, ARM TechCon, Android

The OMAP5 ARM Cortex-A15 processor is taped out, they are about to show impressive samples soon, they will then be tweaking and optimizing it before release in commercial products within about a year. OMAP4 is being launched in the Motorola Razr and in the Samsung Galaxy Nexus phones, each more awesome than the other. Ice Cream Sandwich Android 4.0 works awesomely on OMAP4, Honeycomb 3.2 tablets like the Archos 101 G9 are being released now, TI is also looking forward to power products such as Laptops that run Chrome OS, Ubuntu and Windows 8.