Category: Linaro Connect

HiKey970 development board for AI

Posted by Charbax – March 19, 2018
Category: Development Boards, Exclusive videos, HiSilicon, Linaro Connect, Android, Ubuntu

HiSilicon and Hoperun introduces their new HiKey 970 development board, 10nm HiSilicon Kirin 970 based (same chipset that is in the recent Huawei Mate 10) quad ARM Cortex-A73 at 2.36GHz with quad ARM Cortex-A53 at 1.8GHz with Mali-G72MP12 and their new Dedicated Neural-network Processing Unit (NPU) with 256MAC/cycle @ 960MHz performance. To be available next month for $299 on Amazon and at http://hihope.org this is their Super Edge AI Computing Platform with Huawei HiAI SDK that can provide up to 25X Performance and 50X better Power Efficiency compared with doing the AI tasks by CPU or GPU. This enables the Heterogeneous multi processing Resource Management for use in applications such as Deep Learning, Robots, Automobile, Smart City. The NPU provides frequently used artificial intelligence function APIs, model management APIs and basic operator computing APIs, so developers can focus on developing new AI applications instead of focusing on performance tuning. The HiKey970’s dedicated AI processor has a rich set of imaging and I/Os that enables developers to build highly integrated flexible products for AI-based intelligent cameras in smart cities.

Features include:
UEFI + ARM Trusted Firmware
Kernel 4.9
CAN driver
CSI/CSI-2 driver
WiFi enable
Video Codec enable
PCIe enable for storage and LTE connect

4 lanes CSI + 2 lanes CSI
CAN V2.0B up to 1Mbps
Video Dec up to H.265 3840×2160@60fps
6GB 1866MHz, 4 Channel LPDDR4x
GPS, GLONASS, and BeiDou

OS Choices
Ubuntu
Debian
Android Master

Stacks
Huawei HiAI
Android NN
OpenGL ES
OpenCL

George Grey Opening Keynote at Linaro Connect Hong Kong 2018

Posted by Charbax – March 19, 2018
Category: Exclusive videos, Linaro Connect

HKG18-100K1 – George Grey: Opening Keynote George Grey Keynote
http://connect.linaro.org/resource/hkg18/hkg18-100k1/

Learn More at http://connect.linaro.org

Geniatech Tablet Dock for 96Boards

Posted by Charbax – December 11, 2017
Category: Tablets, Development Boards, Exclusive videos, Qualcomm, Linaro Connect, Geniatech, Android, Ubuntu, Windows

Geniatech shows their Tablet Dock for use with 96Boards compatible/sized development boards, where the board can just be swapped into the Tablet Dock to power it, including with touch support. To be distributed by Arrow at an affordable price.

Geniatech also provides a range of 96Board sized open source Qualcomm 410, 820 based development boards which you can see some of them featured in this video filmed at Embedded World 2017:

Andrea Gallo, Linaro VP Segment Groups talks open source AI, copyrights, ARM servers, DRM and more

Posted by Charbax – December 11, 2017
Category: Exclusive videos, Linaro Connect

Andrea Gallo manages the Linaro Enterprise, Home, Mobile, Networking, IoT and Embedded Segment Groups focusing on their specifc market applications around ARM servers, smartphones, home entertainment, networking. Reporting to Linaro members about resource usage, technical achievements, upstream objectives, planning the next Linaro Connect.

Linaro Core Development Group

Posted by Charbax – December 11, 2017
Category: Exclusive videos, Linaro Connect

Mike Holmes is the director of The Linaro Core Development Group, to to help evolve key GNU/Linux upstream technologies across the kernel, power management, security, and virtualization fields with a long-standing experience submitting code upstream, they develop, improve, and maintain these open-source technologies in tight collaboration with the open-source software communities. The Core Development Group coordinates engineering teams and provide management support, Interface and coordinate with other Linaro groups and engineering teams, Support Linaro Members at the engineer level (in their areas of expertise), Execute through the Kernel, Power Management, Security and Virtualization engineering.

Interview with Matt Grob, Qualcomm EVP, Technology at Linaro Connect San Francisco 2017

Posted by Charbax – December 11, 2017
Category: Exclusive videos, Qualcomm, Linaro Connect

Matt Grob is Executive Vice President of technology for Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and a member of Qualcomm’s executive committee. Matt Grob joined Qualcomm in 1991, In 1998, Grob was promoted to lead the Company’s R&D system engineering group and in 2006, he became in charge Qualcomm’s Corporate R&D division, now known as Qualcomm Research. Grob also served as Qualcomm’s Chief Technology Officer from 2011-2017.

You can also watch the video of his Keynote at Linaro Connect San Francisco 2017 here:

Naresh Kamboju QA Service Expert at Linaro

Posted by Charbax – December 11, 2017
Category: Exclusive videos, Linaro Connect

Naresh Kamboju, based in Hyderabad India, started working from Linux 2.x kernel and now is working on Linux Kernel Validation and is an active Open Source contributor. Majorly he works on Linux Test project (LTP), Kselftest, Android CTS, VTS, and SystemTap test suites. By using Linaro Automation and Validation Architecture (LAVA) he validates Linux kernel Trees which includes Linux-mainline, Linux-next, Linux-term-stable(LTS) 4.14, 4.9 and 4.4 and sending test reports to Linux kernel Mailing List aka LKML. Naresh Kamboju played a major role in validating ARM big.LITTLE Architecture on Versatile Express TC2 and Juno for measuring Power vs Performance on ARM and ARM64 architectures. he is involved in user space validation building Debian and RPM packages. He started his career at Deference Research and Development Organization (DRDO), Patni computers, Sony and Wipro.

Qualcomm Dragonboard 820c runs Debian Radios streaming with VLC, Icecast

Posted by Charbax – December 11, 2017
Category: Development Boards, Exclusive videos, Qualcomm, Linaro Connect

Here’s the upcoming Qualcomm Dragonboard 820c shown off doing some multimedia streaming running Debian with VLC, Icecast and a USB Radios dongle. Filmed at the Linaro Connect.

Keynote: Heather Meeker (O’Melveny & Myers LLP) at Linaro Connect San Francisco 2017

Posted by Charbax – December 11, 2017
Category: Exclusive videos, Linaro Connect

Keynote: Heather Meeker (O’Melveny & Myers LLP) Read more at http://connect.linaro.org/resource/sfo17/sfo17-300k2/

Cavium Octeon TX CN83XX 24-core 64bit ARMv8 for 5G Cellular Backhaul

Posted by Charbax – December 11, 2017
Category: Development Boards, Networking, Exclusive videos, Cavium, Linaro Connect

Cavium engineers are showing the Cavium Octeon TX 24-core 64bit ARMv8 platform handling the IPsec tunnel for future base stations to be used for the 5G backhaul, to increase bandwidth, increase coverage for cellular networks around the world. Filmed at Linaro Connect.

RISC-V Linux Port is Upstream, interview with Palmer Dabbelt of SiFive, binutils and gcc maintainer

Posted by Charbax – December 11, 2017
Category: Exclusive videos, Linaro Connect

RISC-V Linux port has been accepted into Linus’ tree and is slated to release as part of 4.15. While this is a major milestone for RISC-V, they’re far from done in Linux kernel land and there’s a whole lot of work left to be done in userspace.

RISC-V is an open instruction set architecture (ISA) that began in 2010 at the University of California, Berkeley, based on established reduced instruction set computing (RISC) principles, it can be freely used for any purpose, permitting anyone to design, manufacture and sell RISC-V chips and software.

$79 Poplar Android TV Development Board by Hoperun on Hisilicon Hi3798CV200

Posted by Charbax – December 4, 2017
Category: Set-top-boxes, 4K UHD, Development Boards, Exclusive videos, HiSilicon, Linaro Connect, Android

Poplar is the first development board compliant with the 96Boards Enterprise Edition TV Platform specification. Developed by HiSilicon, the board features the Hi3798C V200 with an integrated quad-core 64bit ARM Cortex A53 processor and high performance Mali-T720 GPU, making it capable of running any commercial set-top solution based on Linux or Android. Its high performance specification also supports a premium user experience with up to H.265 HEVC decoding of 4K video at 60 frames per second. It’s available for $79 at Aliexpress.com

Thundersoft CTO Pengcheng Zou talks Open Source Automotive and more

Posted by Charbax – December 4, 2017
Category: Robots, Internet of Things, Cars, Exclusive videos, Allwinner, Qualcomm, Intel, Linaro Connect, Android

Thunder Software Technology Co., Ltd. is a smart device operating system and platform technology provider since 2008, providing smart device operating system solutions, speeding-up time to market for smart phone, IoT, automotive, robots, drones, cars, smart logistics, with years of R&D investment in mobile OS technology such as Android, Linux, Windows and HTML5, from the hard drive, operating system kernel, and middleware to upper application, and has accumulated extensive experience along with a large number of IP including protocol stack, deep learning, computer graphics techniques, operating system optimization, security solutions, etc.

Grant Likely’s Open Source Arcade based on 96Boards

Posted by Charbax – December 3, 2017
Category: Gaming, Exclusive videos, Qualcomm, Linaro Connect, ARM

Grant Likely has built a custom video-game arcade machine with colorful control buttons and mouse for using with classic arcade game emulators, all Open Source and Open Hardware, with the source code up on GitHub with some links up at http://www.secretlab.ca/archives/240 you can also watch his Arcade assembly time lapse video. Filmed at the Linaro Connect San Francisco 2017.

Keynote: Aaron Welch of Packet.net at Linaro Connect San Francisco 2017

Posted by Charbax – November 30, 2017
Category: Servers, Exclusive videos, Linaro Connect

Keynote: Imagine The Internet in Ten Years – Aaron Welch (Packet)

Think back to the summer of 2007. AWS was a few months old, the first iPhone had just been released, and Uber was still two years away from its founding.

Now look the other way: ten years into the future. A future standing on the shoulders of today’s nearly 20 million software developers (which may double in the next five years), a mature ecosystem of venture funded firms around the world, and dozens of major companies dumping massive resources into everything from new data centers, cloud services, VR, 5G, robotics, autonomy, space travel, and a huge variety of software of all stripes and flavors.

Aaron Welch, co-founder and SVP of Product at Packet (the leading bare metal cloud for developers), outlines Packet’s vision for the infrastructure of tomorrow, and why hardware is the next innovation layer.

Aaron Welch, SVP of Product, Packet Hosting Inc

Posted by Charbax – November 30, 2017
Category: Servers, Exclusive videos, Linaro Connect

Interview with Aaron Welch, SVP of Product at http://Packet.net about what he said in his keynote, about the ARM Servers which they are providing as bare metal hosting at http://Packet.net and what he thinks the internet will be like in the next ten years, probably powered by ARM Servers which they will provide.

@vielmetti talks ARM Servers at Packet.net and @worksonarm

Posted by Charbax – November 30, 2017
Category: Servers, Exclusive videos, Linaro Connect

Interview with Ed Vielmetti, Special Projects Director at http://Packet.net talking about their available and upcoming ARMv8 servers in the data center and the ARM Server ecosystem that is being advanced at a rapid pace. Ed Vielmetti is posting News and software updates at https://twitter.com/vielmetti and https://twitter.com/worksonarm

Canonical shows EdgeX on ARM

Posted by Charbax – November 30, 2017
Category: Internet of Things, Development Boards, Exclusive videos, Broadcom, Linaro Connect, Ubuntu

First demo of EdgeX on ARM in cross-host setup featuring Ubuntu Core and Ubuntu systems both running the EdgeX cluster. The Dell 5k Edge Gateway, based on Ubuntu Core Snappy, has been running the core EdgeX services (basically 11 out of 12) using the official Docker snap. The RPi3, based on Ubuntu, has been running EdgeX device virtual service.

The EdgeX Foundry Project is a vendor-neutral project launched by the Linux Foundation, aligned around a common goal: the simplification and standardization of the foundation for edge computing architectures in the Industrial IoT market, while still allowing the ecosystem to add significant value. The seed for the new project is a fully-functional, Alpha-grade edge platform based on over 125,000 lines of code donated by Dell with references to other open source projects and developed with feedback from their partners, customers, and even competitors. The EdgeX project has already garnered a diverse and experienced membership base of supporting companies that is continuing the development of the architecture and code base. The goals of EdgeX include to provide a flexible microservices architecture that can support the use of any combination of heterogeneous ingredients plugged into a common interoperability foundation, to be agnostic to hardware CPU (e.g., x86, ARM), OS (e.g., Linux, Windows, Mac OS), and application environment (e.g., Java, JavaScript, Python, Go Lang, C/C++) to support customer preferences for differentiation, to allow services to scale up and down based on device capability and use case and more.

David Abdurachmanov of CERN talks High Energy Physics on ARMv8 64bit Servers at Linaro Connect

Posted by Charbax – November 10, 2017
Category: Servers, Exclusive videos, Linaro Connect

Around the year 2000, the convergence on Linux and commodity x86_64 processors provided a homogeneous scientific computing platform which enabled the construction of the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG) for LHC data processing. This allowed the High Energy Physics (HEP) community to use a homogeneous software model utilizing the x86_64 architecture. LHC experiments at CERN, in particular ATLAS and CMS, started investigating ARMv8 64-bit (AArch64) architecture for HEP needs. A journey which started in 2013. The LHC community faces a great challenge regarding computing needs in 10 years and has started exploring public clouds, volunteer computing (e.g., LHC@home) and HPC facilities to increase peak computation capacity. This talk will contain information about future (a timeline of 10 years) computation needs for LHC experiments and the more recent progress done by ATLAS, CernVM and CMS teams on using ARMv8 64-bit/AArch64.

You can watch the keynote by David Abdurachmanov and Jakob Blomer here:

Hungarian Robot Builders Association

Posted by juliusaugustus – November 7, 2017
Category: Robots, Linaro Connect

The Hungarian Robot Builders association is a club of people which builds and designs robots. The association has all the Top robot builders and designers in Hungary. The association designs and builds robots for competitions throughout Europe. Raspberry Pi’s and Arduinos are their favored boards.