1. Ne10 overview
2. update Ne10 status
* DSP module is added
* organization, test system and documentation are built
* image processing module is in process
* Image processing function is very useful for the android and iOS
APPs developers, because they aren’t good at NEON assembly coding so
that many new features can’t be implemented in APPs.
3. get feed back
* we expect getting more feedback about new APIs of Ne10
4. discuss the future of Ne10
* such as ARM v8, OpenCV, etc
5. Linaro Android Project Discussion
George Grey introduces the Linaro 2013, Linaro has now grown from 8 members 6 months ago to 24 members today. Core members ARM, Hisilicon and Texas Instruments. Club members LG, Samsung and ST-Ericsson. Group members AMD, AppliedMicro, Calxeda, Canonical, Cavium, Enea, Facebook, HP, LSI, Marvell, Montavista, Nokia Siemens Networks and Red Hat. Community members are Freescale and IBM. All those companies assign some of their engineers to work at the not-for-profit open source organization Linaro to optimize and improve Linux support on ARM devices, from ARM Powered Smartphones, Tablets, Laptops, Set-top-boxes, Servers and Networking equipment.
The group picture for Linaro Connect 2013 is up here:
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.
This week I am video-blogging at the Linaro Connect developer conference on optimizing Linux on ARM in Hong Kong. Here’s Mike Levine’s session introducing Linaro to the new Linaro employees and assignees (engineers from Linaro member companies assigned to work on Linaro).
Target audience: new assignees, employees, consultants, people interested in joining Linaro
Facts about Linaro
Tools used for global planning and communication
Selling points about Linaro
Company status
Environment and very light overview of policies/procedures
Basic On-Boarding review
Q&A
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.
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.
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.
ARM demonstrates GPU Computing on the new ARM Mali-T604 GPU, rendering graphical features, filters, encoding, processing certain things much faster and using much less power by processing those things on the GPU instead of on the CPU.
ARM runs the Epic Citadel benchmark at 55fps at 2560×1600 (4 megapixels = 2x 1080p) on the Mali-T604 while on Intel’s latest mobile platform, that same benchmark runs 10fps slower at a resolution of only 1280×720 (less than 4x lower resolution?). ARM also shows the improvements when using the Mali-T604 with Open GL ES 3.0 which hopefully is soon going to be added in Android, providing higher quality 3D graphics features.
FXI Technologies invented the HDMI Stick, first having shown their Cotton Candy for the first time in November 2011. Here running on the Samsung Exynos 4 processor. They now have 250 partners working on the device, integrating their ideas, technology and applications, providing and upgrading their own solutions, they have hundreds of developers developing solutions and applications for it. They expect to have the Ubuntu platform ready by the end of March. FXI Tech inspired all other SoC vendors and device makers to integrate all other SoCs into HDMI sticks since then.
Dell is launching their first HDMI Stick. Dell is to release this sub-$100 Android PC on a stick on the Rockchip RK3066 dual-core ARM Cortex-A9, which seems to be quite a big change for Dell if this possibly is the form of the future of the Dell Desktop PCs. Dell markets this for an access device towards Dell’s enterprise and personal cloud software and services.
At Mobile World Congress 2013 the nomobile.ru guys interviewed me showing off my video-blogging setup and my latest gadgets. I wasn’t able to use the Kopin Golden-i 3.8 to live augment my video-blogging at MWC because it was stuck in customs.
The newest 5″ 1080p Smartphone from Asus runs on the 1.7Ghz Qualcomm S600 processor and docks into a 1080p 10.1″ Tablet to instantly transform the smartphone into a tablet.
You get the full Android 4.1 Jelly Bean experience on the 24″ Viewsonic VSD241 1080p display running on a Tegra3 quad-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor and Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich on the 22″ Viewsonic VSD220 1080p display running on the OMAP4430 dual-core ARM Cortex-A9. The price of integrating the ARM SoC with Android is perhaps not much more than selling the touch screen display by itself, and with the HDMI input and USB you can connect any Windows 8 Laptop or Desktop to this screen to thus use the same large touch screen to also use Windows 8.
