Category: Linaro Connect

Arrow Dragonboard 820c Extended 96Boards, the Enterprise Edition Oxalis NXP ARMv8 Layerscape LS1012A

Posted by Charbax – March 14, 2017
Category: Development Boards, Exclusive videos, Qualcomm, Linaro Connect

Arrow shows an early prototype of their upcoming Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 based extended edition 96Boards and they are showing their first Enterprise Edition 96Board named Oxalis. Based on NXPs latest ARMv8 Layerscape LS1012A Processor running at 800MHz, this board delivers up to date connectivity with two USB-3.0 ports, SATA, 2x Gigabit Ethernet and PCIe.

Arrow also has a whole bunch of other new development boards such as the Meercat, an i.MX7 based ARM Cortex-A7 board with ARM Cortex-M4 and the Chameleon, the first Intel / Altera FPGA based 96Boards. You can read Arrow’s article about maker’s experiences with the 96Boards here.

Also check back in the days to come as I will be filming Arrows presenting their latest 96Boards at the Embedded World in Nürnberg 14th-16th February, you can get your free pass here.

Robert Wolff featured in this video is the comunity manager at 96Boards hosting the weekly 96Boards Open Hours.

Freedreno enables Linux distros on Dragonboard 820c 96Boards

Posted by Charbax – March 14, 2017
Category: Development Boards, Exclusive videos, Qualcomm, Linaro Connect, Android, Ubuntu

Rob Clark, maker of the open source GPU driver Freedreno shows off his latest Freedreno open source GPU working on an upcoming Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 based Dragonboard 820c development board, one that is going to use an expanded 96Boards specification to add PCI-E and Gigabit Ethernet ports among other things to the development board. This Freedreno and 820 board provides a significant jump in performance for the GPU, possibly 4x to 5x between the Adreno 306 in a Dragonboard 410c and the Adreno 530 in a Snapdragon 820 based board. The availability of the Freedreno open source GPU driver on Qualcomm based development boards means that these development boards can run all sorts of Linux distributions, including Debian, not just Android. You can read more about the Dragonboard 820c here.

Linaro shows Video Playback Verification with Robot framework and OpenCV

Posted by Charbax – March 14, 2017
Category: Set-top-boxes, Exclusive videos, Linaro Connect

The Linaro Digital Home Group (LHG) recognizes the need for automated video testing software in Linaro’s automated validation architecture (LAVA). In LHG they have started looking at the open source Robot Framework generic test automation framework and OpenCV (Open Source Computer Vision). The demo at Connect (BUD17) shows some of the first steps of how to automate the verification of video playback using open source test projects that can be implemented as part of the Linaro Continuous Integration (CI) framework.

Linaro RDK with GStreamer-V4L2 video accelerator and Freedreno graphics overlay

Posted by Charbax – March 14, 2017
Category: Set-top-boxes, Exclusive videos, Qualcomm, Linaro Connect

The Linaro Digital Home Group (LHG) has extensive experience working with the Comcast RDK. LHG has been instrumental in leading open source initiatives in the RDK. At Linaro Connect (BUD17), the LHG Director, Mark Gregotski, along with 2 Comcast assignee engineers (Siva Patchaiperumal and Kalyan Nagabhirava) are demonstrating a port of the RDK to the Qualcomm 96Boards Dragonboard 410c. This demo shows the RDK media framework taking advantage of the GStreamer-V4L2 support provided by the DBD410C to use the hardware video decoder. The HD video is scaled and then a rotating triangle is overlaid using the open source Freedreno graphics support available with DB410C. The demo shows smooth video playback without any stuttering with smooth graphics overlay. Since the video decode is offloaded to the video hardware, the CPU is not heavily loaded.

Linaro Android AOSP TV, making Android TV Boxes and Smart TVs better

Posted by Charbax – March 13, 2017
Category: Set-top-boxes, Exclusive videos, HiSilicon, Mstar, Linaro Connect, Android

Interview with the core team behind the Linaro’s AOSP TV project. The project lead Khasim Syed Mohammed and team members Show Liu and Vincent Chou demonstrate Android TV running on the 96Boards HiKey platform. The team shares the goals of the AOSP TV project, how it will benefit the SoC vendors, OEMs and ODMs of Smart TVs and Advanced Set-top box manufacturers and Android TV application developers. They clarify the project goal, its to create AOSP TV as the open source subset of Android TV and is not to fork the Android TV work from Google. They also share the details on upcoming LHG’s AOSP TV m-lcr release, OPTEE security framework integration, DRM support to be added and a lot more.

Secure Debug IoT on ARMv8-M ARM Cortex-M33

Posted by Charbax – March 12, 2017
Category: Internet of Things, Exclusive videos, Linaro Connect, ARM

Marc Moreno Berengue of ARM at Linaro Connect 2017 in Budapest shows TrustZone for ARM Cortex-M33 implementing a secure gateway between the Secure and Non-secure areas on the ARM Cortex-M33 SoC, with the ARM CoreLink SSE-200 subsystem, TrustZone, ARM CoreLink SIE-200, instruction cashes, power infrastructure components, Secure Debug with ARM CoreSight SoC, the optional ARM TrustZone CryptoCell and the optional ARM Cordio Radio. All these enabling security for IoT. This demonstration is running on the ARM Cortex-M Prototyping System (MPS2/MPS2+) which is a Versatile Express development board featuring a large FPGA for prototyping Cortex-M based designs and a range of different options for debug.

Secure IoT updates bootloader on NXP FRDM-K64F ARM Cortex-M4

Posted by Charbax – March 12, 2017
Category: Internet of Things, Exclusive videos, NXP, Linaro Connect

David Brown at Linaro demonstrates the mcuboot project. mcuboot started as the bootloader for the Mynewt project. David has ported this to Zephyr, and the bootloader is now its own project.

Oliver “Ogra” Grawert talks Ubuntu Core on Dragonboard 410c at Linaro Connect Budapest 2017

Posted by Charbax – March 7, 2017
Category: Internet of Things, Development Boards, Exclusive videos, Qualcomm, Linaro Connect, Ubuntu

Robert Wolff of the weekly 96Boards Open Hours show interviews Oliver “Ogra” Grawert of Canonical about the status of Snappy Ubuntu Core on the 96Boards including the Dragonboard 410c and more about Ubuntu Core, Canonical’s strategy in IoT, security and updates through the Build.Snapcraft.io platform. You can watch the 96Boards Open Hours episode featuring Robert Wolff and Ogra here.

Koen Kooi talks about Kodi on ARM, V4L2, OpenCDM, EME for HTML5

Posted by Charbax – March 7, 2017
Category: Set-top-boxes, Exclusive videos, AmLogic, Linaro Connect

Koen Kooi, release manager at Linaro, talks about wanting to watch Netflix from inside Kodi and the work going on to make that possible. This video was filmed at the Linaro Connect Budapest 2017.

Keynote: Google joins Linaro as Club Member at Linaro Connect Budapest 2017

Posted by Charbax – March 6, 2017
Category: Linaro Connect

George Grey welcomes the 400 Linaro engineers and Connect attendees at the Budapest 2017 Linaro Connect, announces Google to join Linaro as Club Member (with access to all Linaro Segment Groups). Check back during this week for many 4K Interviews with the engineers at Linaro Connect, and also check back for the Live Streams here every day at 8:30AM or 9AM CET Hungarian Time until Friday 10th March, check the schedule here.

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Linaro Connect Las Vegas 2016 opening keynote

Posted by Charbax – September 28, 2016
Category: Linaro Connect

This is the official keynote video by George Grey, CEO of Linaro welcoming attendees to the conference and giving an update on the latest projects taking place at Linaro. You can check Linaro’s official YouTube channel at http://youtube.com/linaroorg for videos of all the keynotes and sessions at the Linaro Connect Las VEgas 2016 which is happening right now September 26-30th 2016.

Linaro Connect keynotes: George Grey, Linaro CEO and Eric Hennenhoefer, ARM VP Research

Posted by Charbax – March 9, 2016
Category: Internet of Things, Servers, Development Boards, Exclusive videos, Linaro Connect

George Grey, Linaro CEO, gives the opening keynote of Linaro Connect Bangkok. He discusses Linaro’s activities across the ARM ecosystem from sensor devices to the data-center. New initiatives including end-to-end open source software platform solutions, ARM Based Developer Cloud, $299 Lemaker Cello using AMD 64bit Server SoC following the 96Boards Enterprise Edition specs are announced and demonstrated.

Eric Hennenhoefer, ARM VP Research talks about ARM Reasearch in the High Performance Computing area and more.

ODP on Freescale QorlQ LS1043A Quad-core ARM Cortex-A53: ODP Crypto API protocol offload

Posted by Charbax – February 7, 2016
Category: Servers, Development Boards, Networking, Exclusive videos, Freescale, Linaro Connect

Demonstrate ODP IPSec ESP protocol offload advantages over standard algorithm-oriented crypto API. Core utilization is measured for a given traffic load using standard odp_ipsec application and an ESP offload enhanced version of the same application (odp_ipsec_proto_ Benefits of significant core utilization decrease and simpler application code are demonstrated.

ODP-OVS on Cavium ThunderX 48-core ARM Server

Posted by Charbax – February 7, 2016
Category: Servers, Development Boards, Networking, Exclusive videos, Cavium, Linaro Connect

Functional demonstration of ODP-OpenvSwitch (ODP-OVS) running on ThunderX. ODP-OVS to process the upd pkt in loopback way on 10G port. Pkt generator pumps 10G traffic to ODP-OVS port. ODP-OVS receives pkts, validates pkt hash from ovs flow_table and then loopback to same port at 10G line rate.

Hisilicon D02 Virtualization

Posted by Charbax – February 7, 2016
Category: Servers, Development Boards, Networking, Exclusive videos, HiSilicon, Linaro Connect

Running virtualization on the 16 or 32-core ARM Cortex-A57 Hisilicon D02 board.

64bit 16/32-core ARM Cortex-A57 Hisilicon D02: High Performance IPSEC gateway over ODP

Posted by Charbax – February 7, 2016
Category: Servers, Development Boards, Networking, Exclusive videos, HiSilicon, Linaro Connect

Developed new ODP features to achieve high performance, optimize the memory management, uio dev management framework, support crypto accelerator dev, pmd driver.

Linaro Lead Projects explained by Mark Orvek, Linaro EVP Engineering

Posted by Charbax – January 30, 2016
Category: Exclusive videos, Linaro Connect

Linaro is a large engineering organization with many complex projects that map across various teams and groups, but there are a number of high-level projects that stand out and attract the most attention. These projects are highlighted in this section: ARMv8, Digital Home, Mobile & Android, Networking, Server, and Test & Validation. Each of these sections are linked at http://www.linaro.org/projects/

Coursera course about IoT using the 64bit Qualcomm Dragonboard 410c

Posted by Charbax – January 30, 2016
Category: Internet of Things, Development Boards, Exclusive videos, Qualcomm, Linaro Connect, Android, Ubuntu

This Coursera Specialization covers the development of Internet of Things (IoT) products and services—including devices for sensing, actuation, processing, and communication—to help you develop skills and experiences you can employ in designing novel systems. The Specialization has theory and lab sections. In the lab sections you will learn hands-on IoT concepts such as sensing, actuation and communication. In the final Capstone Project, developed in partnership with Qualcomm, you’ll apply the skills you learned on a project of your choice using the DragonBoard 410c platform.

Marcello Zuffo, Professor Embedded Computing at Sao Paulo University with Jon Maddog Hall

Posted by Charbax – January 30, 2016
Category: Exclusive videos, Linaro Connect

At Linaro Connect, talking with Professor Marcello Zuffo about how the Sao Paulo University in Brazil could work together with Linaro to advance the state of open source Linux on ARM.

Microsoft Playready DRM integrated with OPTEE, Linaro Digital Home Group

Posted by Charbax – January 30, 2016
Category: Set-top-boxes, 4K UHD, Exclusive videos, STMicroelectronics, Linaro Connect, Chrome OS

The Linaro Digital Home Group (LHG) has achieved a milestone in the delivery of an open source reference solution for the consumption of premium content on ARM powered devices.

The media solution ulitizes several open source components coupled with a commercial DRM that executes in a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE). The TEE used is the Open Portable TEE (OPTEE) from Linaro, running on ARM TrustZone.

The solution integrates the following key components:
– W3C EME Working Draft (31 March 2015)
– Microsoft PlayReady DRM Porting Kit v3.0
– OP-TEE
– OpenCDM/OpenCDMi
– Chromium v43

The solution is powered by a STMicroelectronics STiH410 ARM Cortex-A9 processor.