TOKYO — At Embedded Systems Expo here, NEC System Technology showed an evaluation board featuring what the company claims as the world’s first intellectual property (IP) designed to play back content encoded in Adobe Flash Lite.
Adobe Flash Lite, a lightweight version of Adobe Flash Player, enables users of mobile phones and other portable devices to view multimedia content and applications developed using Adobe’s Flash tools. Previously, Flash playback had been possible only on personal computers.
Flash makes it easy to develop rich media content and applications, such as a graphical user interface that takes advantage of gradation, alpha blending, anti-aliasing or vector-fonts rendering. But Flash playback often requires a number of processing steps, including floating point unit calculations.
Adobe developed Adobe Flash Lite by adding instruction sets specifically designed for mobile phones, while keeping the data it needs to handle to a minimum. However, playing back Adobe Flash Lite would still require a high-speed, high-power-consumption processor.
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Adobe Flash Lite IP
- Author: ezpod
- Filed under: Event News & Updates, Software Tools, Tutorials & Tips
Related Tags: ARM, docomo, Intel, marvell, Motorola, Nokia, NTT, plc., Qualcomm, Samsung, sony
- Date: May 8,2008
Adobe System Inc. will join forces with mobile and operating system (OS) makers to improve mobile Web surfing with more different platform. It is said that by middle of 2009 , new generation of media player will replace Adobe Flashlite with the mobile version of Adobe’s desktop Internet media player, based on the collaboration result. Adobe will open the source code for Flashlite player so that developers could write software that can be viewed by using multiple platform.
Alongside Adobe, Arm Holdings PLC (ARMH), Intel Corp. (INTC) LG Electronics Inc. (066570.SE), Marvell Technology Group Ltd. (MRVL), Motorola Inc. (MOT), Nokia Corp. (NOK), NTT DoCoMo (DCM), Qualcomm Inc. (QCOM), Samsung Electronics Co. (005930.SE), and Sony Ericsson - a joint venture between Sony Corp. (SNE) and Telefon AB L.M. Ericsson (ERIC) , will participated in the project.
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Bond to Boost Mobile Web Surfing
Linux framebuffer reference port is available for X86 and TI OMAP(ARM) platform. Now they are working to develop on other chipset. It also comes with all the original settings and features of the FL3.X. RedHat and Montavista Linux had been tested with the port, but they need to upgrade the existing port so that it can be used for different Linux distribution.
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Flash Lite 3.X Linux Framebuffer Port.
