Arrow Electronics is the world’s biggest distributor of electronics components, they are a supporting partner in the Hi-Key development board, supported by the new http://96Boards.org program. With experience in distributing many different previous developments like the TI based Beaglebone, Arrow is excited for the things to come in this space. This is the world’s first affordable 64bit ARM development board for software developers, makers, and OEMs. It comes with 4GB of eMMC, WiFi/BLE, and HDMI output. You can order yours today for $129 at https://parts.arrow.com/item/detail/circuitco/999-0005854#GenG
Transflective LCD Smartwatch Podoor PW305II, Assembly, Roadmap
Posted by – February 17, 2015
Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at a Shenzhen smartwatch company. The Shenzhen Podoor PW305II uses an always-on translucent screen, it is a new material, can display clock all the time at a low power consumption. with the backlight on for a full backlit image. Podoor says that they are the first company to use this display. The other features of this watch is measuring heart rate in normal time and at sport. Waterproof. They built a sever for smartwatches, so that exercise and heart rate data can be analysed on the server; the sever organizes and ranks users. Podoor’s Android mobile watch PW306II and PW308, they show multiple colors that can be customized. For 2015, Shenzhen Podoor will unveil PW305S compatible with both Android and iOS The Podoor Lady’s watch, using a circle case, can detect lack of skin humidity, sense ultraviolet radiation, they even have a lady alert system when she is in danger, she can press one button on watch which sends her position to 10 friends, and the Podoor Elder smartwatch for easy use and for elder and care.
You can contact Shenzhen Podoor here:
Fessmin Zhan (Overseas sales manager)
Shenzhen Ptah Technology Co.,Ltd
T：0755-2795 6729 F：0755 2997 0821 Cell:180 3811 3951
Skype: fessmin.zhan
fessmin@szpodoor.com
http://www.szpodoor.com
4th Floor,Bao’he Business Bldg., 74 Area, Bao’an District, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
Hisilicon D02, 16-core ARM Cortex-A57 High Performance Board (32-core version coming next months!)
Posted by – February 15, 2015
Hisilicon engineer Justin Zhao, Software Architect at Hisilicon SoC architecture department, is bringing up the Linux software on the Hisilicon D02 Board, one of the most powerful ARM Processors in the world. They have a configuration with 32-core Cortex A57 @ max 2.1GHz and up to 2 SoC per board coming up within a few months (64-cores per board!), each SoC has 1MB L2 cache/cluser, 32MB L3 cache. The board has 12 SATA\SAS (8 for one SoC, 4 for the other), 2 10/100/1000Mb/s compatible Ethernet ports, 2 10Gb/s SFP+ Ethernet ports, 8 DDR3 RAM DIMMs, 4 PCIE solts (2 pieces/SoC), 2 UARTs & 2 JTAGs for debug, 1 USB host. Rob Savoye of Linaro’s Toolchain Group joins in this video discussing the installation of the latest GCC to this Board. Justin Zhao shows how he can bootup from Sata, PXE, Provision mode, NFS, with OpenSuse 13.1, Ubuntu 14.04, working on Red Hat. A LAMP (LAVA) and lxc (container) have already been enabled, and some Benchmarks (e.g. perf, iperf, ltp) have been executed on it too, perhaps Hisilicon will soon publish the test results also.
Linaro Engineers, world’s top Linux on ARM engineers, Hiring process and collaboration
Posted by – February 15, 2015
Category: Exclusive videos, Linaro Connect
Linaro has been going through a 4 and a half year growth hiring the world’s top Linux on ARM engineers globally, and working on their collaboration initiatives to keep everyone communicating and happy. This is a conversation between Release Manager, Koen Kool and Director Global Talent, Mike Levine.
faytech touchscreen PC factory tour, optically bonded transflective, Allwinner A20 and more
Posted by – February 14, 2015
Category: Tablets, Displays, Factory Tours, Exclusive videos, Allwinner, Intel, faytech, Android, Windows
Arne Weber takes us on a tour through the factory operation of faytech Tech. Co. Ltd., a touchscreen manufaturer in Shenzhen he has been running with his wife for more than 5 years. This is the second time I am visiting them and faytech has greatly progressed since my last visit.
The video starts on the rooftop of the faytech factory in Hongmen Technology Park. We see a comparison of faytech´s standard 10” touchscreen PC, a high brightness waterproof 10.4” touchscreen PC and an optical bonded transflective 17.3” model for crisp clear picture even under direct sunlight. The tour continues showing the factory highlights: optically bonded resistive touchscreen panels, faytech´s new capacitive 15” touchscreen PC with Intel´s E3800 series and an explanation of their new A20 based embedded mainboard for industrial customers. We also see the equipment that faytech invested in over the last year like a temperature room, a vibration and gluing machine and a dust free clean room improving faytech´s in-house capability of touchscreen and high brightness panel handling.
The tour ends with a ball drop test showing that optical bonded touch panels don’t just have a better viewing angle, reflection and color characteristics but are also far more resistant against damages. You can read more about faytech at http://www.faytech.com
96Boards Linaro Development Boards Initiative, $129 HiKey with Hisilicon 64bit Kirin620
Posted by – February 12, 2015
Category: Development Boards, Exclusive videos, HiSilicon, Linaro Connect, Android, Chrome OS, Ubuntu
With the first being the Hislicon Kirin620 Octa Core ARM Cortex-A53 based $129 HiKey development board, http://96Boards.org is a new open hardware specification for ARM 32bit and 64bit development boards, and a Community Program for software delivery to developers, makers and OEMs. In this video, Linaro CEO George Grey describes the standardized expansion buses for peripheral I/O, display and cameras allowing the hardware ecosystem to develop a range of compatible add-on products that will work on any 96Boards product over the lifetime of the platform.The 96Boards initiative is designed to offer a single software and hardware community across multiple vendor boards supporting a range of different features. A fixed set of minimum functions including USB, SD, HDMI and standardized low speed and high speed peripheral connectors are provided. Vendors may add customized hardware and feature sets provided the minimum functions are available. Linaro expects this to extend the platform life, increase the market for add-on hardware, and accelerate open source upstreaming of support for new SoC features.
Here is the session by Linaro CEO George Grey talking further about the 96Boards hardware at Linaro Connect Hong Kong 2015:
$99 Mele X1000 4K on Realtek 1195 now shipping
Posted by – February 11, 2015
Mele is now shipping their 4K H265 Realtek 1195 dual-core ARM Cortex-A7 based Android hard drive media player, with Dolby True HD/DTS 7.1 channel pass through, X1000 4K does full local playback, supporting most audio/video formats, includes 4K H.265, BD ISO, 3D MVC, BDMV. The Mele X1000 4K can integrate a 2.5″ hard drive of up to 2TB. Mele develops their Special MeLE Media center app for smarter local video content playback featuring movie posters, info and actors from IMBD. The Mele X1000 4K is based on Android 4.4 Kitkat, with XBMC/Neflix/Youtube, using MeLE U3 smart TV system, all GUI optimized for remote control. with Gigabit LAN, it support local network streaming up to 120Mbps, support for Miracast and DLNA.
You can contact MeLE here:
Mason Tong, Sales Director
mason.tong@mele.cn
Mobile: +86-132 6816 6362
Isaac Long, Sales Manager, Brand Developement for oversea market
sale5@mele.cn
Mobile: +86 186 7551 2024
Skype: isaac_520320
Leo Owyang, Account Manager, OEM & ODM brand for oversea market
sales13@mele.cn
Mobile: +86 159 8952 0320
Skype: leo4176
http://en.mele.cn
http://www.aliexpress.com/store/715968
http://www.amazon.com/shops/MeLEofficialstore
Allwinner H3 4K Set-top-box by Sunchip, and H8 Octa-core Set-top-box
Posted by – February 10, 2015
Sunchip is launching their Allwinner H3 quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 based set-top-box with 4K support, it is shipping now. Sunchip is also showing the Allwinner H8 octa-core ARM Cortex-A7 TV box, also shipping now. Sunchip can do HDMI Sticks with the H3 and H8 also.
You can contact Sunchip here:
Shenzhen Sunchip Technology Co., Ltd
Kobe Chen, Sales Manager
kobe@sunchip-tech.com
Mobile: +86 13751103656
Phone: +86 755 26733959
Skype: Kobechen6132
QQ: 1191324838
http://www.sunchip-tech.com
Hisilicon 3716CV200 runs RDK with Chromium Blink Framework
Posted by – February 8, 2015
Linaro with members such as Hisilicon are porting and optimizing Chromium Blink with gstreamer running just above EGL, the next steps are to merging fully with the RDK project to replace the webkit core with blink core.
Live Lava Lab demonstration, adding new development boards for automatic testing
Posted by – February 8, 2015
Category: Development Boards, Exclusive videos, Allwinner, Texas Instruments, Qualcomm, Samsung, Linaro Connect, Android, Ubuntu
Showing how easy it is to integrate any development board in Lava. Beaglebone Black, Allwinner A20 Cubieboard2, IFC6410, Odroid-UX3 (Exynos5422). They can take any new board and just get it connected. LAVA is an automated validation architecture primarily aimed at testing deployments of systems based around the Linux kernel on ARM devices, specifically ARMv7 and later. The current range of boards (device types) supported by this LAVA instance can be seen on the scheduler status page https://validation.linaro.org/scheduler/ which includes details of how many boards of each type are available for tests and currently running jobs.
eInfochips enabling Linux support on ARM based SoCs
Posted by – February 8, 2015
They have enabled the Qualcomm Snapdragon APQ8064 (Snapdragon 600) with Linaro’s Linaro OpenEmbedded based Ubuntu release. They have optimized it for video/audio capture encode/decode through software based encoding and optimizing HD resolution with hardware acceleration for video-chat.
Gocupi drawbot polargraph robot suspends a pen/marker draws on vertical surface
Posted by – February 8, 2015
David Mandala shows the Gocupi that at Linaro Connect. The cool thing (beyond that is was made by a couple of guys from the DallasMakerSpace) is that it is a real project that uses an ARM embedded computer and it could do more if it had a more powerful ARM embedded computer.
It is also a contraption more commonly referred to as a ‘drawbot’ or ‘polargraph’. The gocupi is a robot that suspends a pen or marker between two stepper motors and draws on a vertical surface. Each stepper motor has a spool attached to it’s shaft which is wound with a thin braided line, and these spools move simultaneously to control the position of the pen that hangs between them.
The positioning is all accomplished by using a polar coordinate for each point on a path for each stepper motor. To determine how the pen should move from one point to the next the gocupi calculates the velocity and acceleration based on a number of factors, the most notably being the position on the drawing surface. The gocupi knows lines near the edge of the page drawn at high speed have a tendency to produce an unintended line or may cause the pen to bounce off of the surface creating dots and dashes instead of a line. This is all taken into consideration for each transition of the pen from on point on a path to the next. To further put that process into perspective, it is not uncommon for a drawing to consists of 800,000 points (or more) and take 45 minutes to an hour for the gocupi to draw.
Find out more about it at: http://gocupi.com/
https://github.com/brandonagr/gocupi
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1412673920/gocupi-turns-your-raspberry-pi-into-a-portable-pol
http://dallasmakerspace.org/
Chromium Blink Embedded Framework on STM B2102 and Hisilicon Poplar
Posted by – February 8, 2015
The Linaro team ported the Chromium Embedded Framework to Linux running on ARM, the framework utilizes an EGL backend integrated using Chromium’s Ozone abstraction layer.
Linaro Performance Contest, John Maddog Hall
Posted by – February 8, 2015
At http://performance.linaro.org/, in anticipation of ARM’s new 64-bit architecture, Linaro reviewed some of the source code of a typical GNU/Linux system and found over 1400 source code modules that included ARM assembly language which might need to be ported and does need to be tested to work on new ARM 64-bit processors (Aarch64).
Linaro also recognized that some of the modules were written a long time ago (by computer standards) when CPUs were single core and not multi-core, compilers were not as optimized and RAM memories were smaller and more expensive leading to trade-offs in portability and algorithm selection. In today’s era, it might be better to re-evaluate the use of assembly language and perhaps replace it completely with a higher-level language such as “C”. It might also be worthwhile to review algorithms that made sense in an earlier time, but have outlived their usefulness.
In some cases the assembly language that exists in the code was “transposed” from existing assembly language of a different architecture and did not necessarily utilize the best features of each assembly or machine language architecture. In other cases it might make more sense to create a compiler intrinsic to do certain functions such as identifying the architecture of the machine.
Finally, while the code in the modules may be very efficient and highly portable, the compiler invocations may need review to take advantage of new optimization switches.
All this amounts to a major opportunity to not only ensure GNU/Linux based systems will operate efficiently on new ARM 64-bit processors, but also to optimize the performance of these systems across architectures. In pursuit of this performance goal, Linaro decided to create a long-running performance contest directed at these modules, and in the future extend the contest to even more modules which may or may not have assembler language in them.
To get started, click on the “Getting Started” Tux Penguin: http://performance.linaro.org/start/
Geniatech shows Android 5.0 Lollipop Android TV on AmLogic and shares strategy
Posted by – February 4, 2015
Shenzhen Geniatech Inc. Ltd, one of the world leading Android TV ODM / OEM Platform vendor, release, demo and leaked today insider technical information, roadmap information about their Android 5.0 Lollipop and Android TV strategic deployment, migration and release strategy for 2015. Watch and follow Geniatech VP. Features include Google Cast (Chromecast protocol support!), 4K, Android TV UI and more.
For any request questions and further information, with regards to Android TV / Android 5.0,. Android TV Solution, Product and Sales Inquiries, you can visit Geniatech public website http://geniatech.com or send e-mail to sales@geniatech.com.
$110 Onda V975s with Allwinner A83T Octa-core ARM Cortex-A7
Posted by – February 1, 2015
This is the new mass market Onda V975S “iPad Air style” thin ultra light Octa-core tablet powered by the Allwinner A83T Octa-core ARM Cortex-A7 with the PowerVR SGX544MP GPU selling at only $110 (699rmb) retail all over China with 1GB RAM and 16GB Flash with an IPS 1024×768 display. Onda also has 2GB RAM, 32GB Flash and Retina display Onda V989 Air for sale for about $130 (799rmb) as the mass market retail price. They both come in as thin form factors as the iPad Air, with thin and light metallic like 9.7″ display form factor. Android 5.0 Lollipop is also just about to be pre-installed shipped on these. Onda is the number 1 top selling “Tier 2” brand in China, shipping millions of tablets per year!
Vuzix next generation Smart Glass design
Posted by – January 31, 2015
Vuzix is showing their next generation 1.4mm display engine that can fit into products that look like normal sunglasses, will support augmented reality, virtual reality and 3D. Intel just invested $25 million to buy 30% of Vuzix to help Vuzix get that next generation smart glass design to the consumer market sooner.
Airwolf 3D uses 3D printers to print 3D printers. Interview with IDTechEx
Posted by – January 28, 2015
Airwolf’s technicians use 3D printers to replicate more 3D printers nearly 24/7 at the company’s headquarters in Mesa CA. This video with IDTechEx was taken at the IDTechEx event 3D Printing LIVE!. Learn more at http://www.idtechex.com.
ARM mbed OS platform for Internet of Things
Posted by – January 28, 2015
ARM talks sensors to servers demonstrations, ways to implement Internet of Things, using the mbed development boards with Arduino headers, the Arduino Shield with a low-power WiFi, doing custom sensor modules with temperature, microphone, ultra-sonic and motion sensors, stacking them up to do sensor nodes, then putting them around the booth to show a dashboard of things happening at the booth hosted on an AppliedMicro X-Gene server.
Sony Booth Tour with my 12-year old cousin
Posted by – January 28, 2015
Category: Tablets, Smartphones, Displays, Cameras, Wearables, Gaming, Smartwatch, Smart Glass, 4K UHD, Exclusive videos, Qualcomm, IFA, Android
Sony 4K World Cup TVs and cameras, Sony Xperia Z3 Tablet, Sony Smart Glass, Sony E Ink SmartBand Talk, Sony Smartwatch 3 with Android Wear, 4K Camcorder with Sony Xperia Z3 with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 805, Sony Playstation 4 demos, Sony Action Camera, Sony RX100 and more.
