Adobe Flash Lite IP

• Author: ezpod
• Filed under: Event News & Updates, Mobile Phones & Devices

  Related Tags: ARM, ip, LSI, nec, Xilinx

• Date: May 31,2008

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.

The Intellectual Properties of FlashLite is tested by NEC

• Author: ezpod
• Filed under: Event News & Updates, Mobile Phones & Devices

  Related Tags: Adobe, EETimes.com, Flash, nec, openscreen

• Date: May 20,2008

Following the announcement from Adobe of the open screen project, news comes from the Embedded Systems Expo that NEC is showing what sounds like it might be an alternative to Adobe’s Flash Lite Player.

Its a little hard to make complete sense of the post from EETimes.com. But some interesting quotes from the short, slightly cryptic article:

By using our new IP, one can design a portable device capable of processing Adobe Flash Lite several times faster, when compared with using a processor.

Also in the announcement is a hint of better video quality as well.

After reducing the number of gates required for an IC and further tuning the video quality output by Adobe Flash Lite, NEC will start offering its IP in August this year.

One thing that does seem to be missing is an explanation of which Flash Lite version they are supporting, although the mention of video implies this is based around the FlashLite 3 player.

You can read the full (breif) announcement of NEC’s new Flash Lite IP over at EETimes.com.

One further interesting thing is that I could find no mention of NEC being involved with the Open Screen Project from its press release.

[http://blog.bittube.com/]Credit where its due: EETimes.com