MPC Data demonstrates a Renesas Electronics MS7724 booting Linux in less than one second
/ contains 1x video / Renesas Electronics and its Platinum Alliance Partner MPC Data Limited have announced a demonstration platform showing a Renesas Electronics MS7724 platform booting a Linux kernel and graphical QT application in less than one second.
The demonstration, which is available at
http://www.swiftboot.com
, adds support for the popular SH7724 Renesas Electronics 32-bit SuperH®
microprocessor to MPC Data's swiftBoot offering. The SH7724 is the latest
microprocessor from Renesas Electronics’ successful SuperH lineup. Based on the
SH4A core, the device operates at 500MHz delivering 900DMIPS and 3.5GFLOPS of
performance. It features high performance hardware video processing and graphics
acceleration allowing up to 720p video at 30fps, and an integrated LCD control
unit. It is the flagship product in the high end of the SuperH portfolio.
Focusing on device specific tuning, MPC Data is able to cold boot to a
functional application in less than a second on a broad range of SoCs,
development boards and core architectures.
Jonathan Short, MPC Data’s Embedded Linux Business Manager, commented: “Slow
boot times are often unacceptable, particularly in consumer and automotive
products where users expect almost immediate access to functionality. The
extended functionality that we have come to expect from embedded devices often
calls for a richly featured operating system such as Linux. Unfortunately, such
operating systems come with an additional boot time overhead.
MPC Data offers a range of swiftBoot services that will be able to
dramatically decrease the boot time of an embedded Linux device and give users
an ‘Instant On’ experience.”
Some of the key market sectors that can benefit from quicker boot times
include:
- Portable Navigation - Instant instrumentation feedback.
- Video conference system / security systems, in-home display for
metering - Fast startup time for application times where startup can be a true
selling feature.
- Media Player, Digital Camera – Instant-on user experience and data
immediately available to the consumer.
- Power management - The ultimate low power mode is off. swiftBoot
can be used as an alternative to complex power management and hibernation
modes that can have substantial development costs.
- Industrial - Absolute minimal down time for industrial control
embedded devices between reboots, firmware upgrades, reconfiguration etc.
Robert Kalman, Marketing Manager of Renesas Electronics Europe’s SuperH team,
commented: “In certain applications, some customers have become used to long
boot up times. This just serves to make this groundbreaking technological step
from MPC Data all the more remarkable. The combination of this software with our
SuperH is an ideal and very complete solution that will leave end customers very
impressed indeed.”
MPC Data is a leading expert in embedded system boot time enhancement.
With its range of swiftBoot engineering services, it has the solution for
customers’ devices. Supporting Linux and uClinux on ARM, SuperH, MIPS & Blackfin
based silicon. MPC Data’s deep technical knowledge and real world product
development experience has enabled the company to gain a deep understanding of
how Linux systems boot and how boot times can be optimized for any given
platform or device. This, along with their development of benchmarking and
profiling tools, allows them to quickly assess the boot process of existing
systems and provide accurate estimates on possible speed improvements.
For more detail on swiftBoot products and services see
http://www.swiftboot.com
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