TOKYO, Japan, ESPOO, Finland, February 10, 2011 — Renesas Mobile Corporation, an innovative supplier of advanced cellular semiconductor solutions and platforms, and Nomovok Ltd. will showcase at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2011 the first MeeGo 1.1 implementation on a Renesas Mobile's mobile application processor, the SH-Mobile APE4. The demonstration by Nomovok can be viewed at the Nokia Qt stand in Hall 1 during the show.
MeeGo is a Linux™-based software platform that supports multiple hardware architectures across the broadest range of device segments, including mobile computers, netbooks, tablets, media-phones, connected TVs and car infotainment systems. The MeeGo demonstration illustrates Renesas Mobile's diverse OS expertise by showing leading-edge yet low-power multimedia and graphics performance based on Linux open source software. The demonstration is based on the latest MeeGo Core OS 1.1 and a Linux BSP (board support package) with fully hardware accelerated video, audio and graphics support. In addition, it shows the latest SteelRat(Note 1) user interface making use of the hardware accelerated OpenGL ES(Note 2) implementation.
The demonstration shows the power of the MeeGo platform with Qt Quick(Note 3) and the scalability and performance of it on multiple target hardwares. Building custom user experiences with Qt Quick makes it possible to differentiate MeeGo for different target devices and customer needs. The Renesas Mobile's family of application processors provides incredible graphics and multi-media performance to form the basis of unrivalled connected experiences when running MeeGo and combined with the company's multi-mode platform.
“Nomovok SteelRat is a UX(Note 4) concept demo, running on the latest MeeGo OS and QML Scene Graph(Note 5)”, said Kaj Grönholm, Nomovok Chief Software Architect. “Built with Qt Quick, this SoC platform combines the productivity of QML language with the performance and graphical freedom of OpenGL shaders. The demo includes a fluid desktop with widgets and a set of applications such as browser, games, notes, calculator etc.”
“Qt lighthouse(Note 6) makes porting the Qt graphics stack into non-X11(Note 7) platforms much easier than before”, said Hideto Kobayashi, Project Manager at Nomovok. “Lighthouse changes have now been integrated into the Qt master branch(Note 8), which made it easy for us to support the Renesas Mobile's BSP including Imagination Technologies POWERVR SGX540 driver and to achieve good performance using hardware accelerated graphics.”
“Partnering with Nomovok allows Renesas Mobile to exploit our Linux assets and heritage by bringing them to the open source community in support of emerging mobile OS's like MeeGo”, said Manfred Schlett, Vice President, Sales and Marketing Division, Renesas Mobile Corporation. “Renesas Mobile has a flexible and open approach to OS with our application processors and platforms which also include support for Symbian™ and Android™ in commercial products”.
(Note 1) SteelRat is the name of Nomovok's demonstration and it presents what kind of user interfaces and animations can be done using Qt Quick on top of QML Scene Graph.
(Note 2) OpenGL ES is a subset of the OpenGL 3D graphics API designed for embedded devices such as mobile phones, PDAs, and video game consoles.
(Note 3) Qt Quick is the marketing name for a platform to build nice looking Qt applications quickly. Qt Quick includes QML language and the Nokia Qt SDK with Qt Creator IDE.
(Note 4) UX means User eXperience.
(Note 5) QML Scene Graph is the future backend for running QML. The current QML backend is built on top of QGraphicsView and has limitations when it comes to OpenGL hardware acceleration. QML Scene Graph solves these and brings possibility to use OpenGL shaders for graphical effects. Please visit
http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2010/05/18/a-qt-scenegraph/.
(Note 6) Qt lighthouse is a name for work that Nokia/Qt has done to improve the separation of modules in the Qt graphics stack. This was done to make it easier to port Qt into different platforms. Currently lighthouse work is being integrated into the main Qt branch. Please visit
http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2010/04/06/remodelling-the-lighthouse/.
(Note 7) X11 is the standard for drawing GUIs, widely used in Linux.
(Note 8) Qt master branch is the most up-to-date version of Qt where the main development for the next Qt version is being done.
About Renesas Mobile Corporation
Renesas Mobile Corporation (RMC) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE: 6723) and offers advanced and innovative products and services for mobile phones, car infotainment solutions, consumer electronics and industrial applications. Renesas Mobile's mission is to develop, productize and deliver communications centric semiconductor chipsets and complete hardware and software platforms built on these chipsets to meet the needs of our customers in these markets. Renesas Mobile provides complete cellular chipset platform solutions including powerful applications processors, leadership and industry reference cellular modems, highly integrated radio frequency devices and intelligent power management solutions. Renesas Mobile offers our customer complete system and software expertise to develop flagship devices more rapidly.
About Nomovok
Nomovok is a Finnish software company delivering embedded Open Source and Linux deployment projects. As one of the leading Open Source Software (OSS) companies, Nomovok has delivered over 450 OSS deployment projects since 2001. Nomovok employs 130 OSS experts globally and has additional 300 experts available through selected OSS partners. Nomovok has several software development labs globally. Nomovok has been contributing actively to all MeeGo core areas since its very first release and has world leading insight on MeeGo technologies.
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