Maximize Freescale PowerQUICC® and QorIQ™ based Designs using Mentor Graphics Android solutions Web Seminar

Overview

Discover the advantage of working with Mentor's Android products including performance optimization, real native C/C++ code integration, and a complete integrated developer workflow.  The Mentor Graphics Development System for Android is the first and only Android software stack for processors built on Power Architecture® technology.

Ubiquitous connectivity open up new opportunities for embedded developer to add innovative and engaging network services to all classes of embedded products. By starting with Freescale's popular PowerQUICC and QorIQ communications processors as the foundation for media processing and real-time networking, designers can implement products with substantial workloads and now incorporate the benefits of the Android OS.

Android software stack offers compelling technical benefits such as application integrated power management, a complete application framework, and developer friendly APIs for interactive applications. The Mentor Graphics Development System for Android is the first and only Android software stack for processors built on Power Architecture® technology. Discover the advantage of working with Mentor's Android products including performance optimization, real native C/C++ code integration, and a complete integrated developer workflow.

What You Will Learn

  • How to use Android to add or enhance user interfaces
  • How Mentor is bringing Android to Freescale processors built on Power Architecture technology
  • What developer tools are available to accelerate Android application development

About the Presenters

Presenter Image Don Shin

Don Shin is senior product marketing manager for Freescale Semiconductor. Prior to joining Freescale, Don has worked in the semiconductor industry as an engineer and marketing at Insight Electronics, Cirrus Logic, Texas Instruments, and Advanced Micro Devices focused on consumer and industry focused products. Don joined Freescale in 2005 as a product marketing manager with responsibilities for product definition, development, and market enablement programs for StarCore DSP and Power Architecture SoCs. Don holds a bachelor’s degree in science from University of Texas at Arlington.

Presenter Image Brad Dixon

Brad Dixon is a Sr. Marketing Manager at Mentor Graphics responsible for Android, Linux, and Nucleus. Brad has been at the nexus of open source and embedded software as a developer, FAE, and product manager since 2000. Previously at MontaVista, Brad has helped some of the world's most demanding companies understand how to apply Linux and other open source technology to design new applications and devices. In addition to technical nuts and bolts, Brad is involved in licensing, quality assurance, networking, and security.

Who Should Attend

  • Embedded developers interested in Android on Power Architecture processors
  • Technical managers

Technical Requirements

What do I need to watch and hear this web seminar?

Mentor Graphics’ web seminars are delivered using Adobe Connect. To watch the seminar all you need to have installed is the Adobe Flash Player, version 8 or later on Windows, Macintosh, Linux, and Solaris. The Flash Player is already installed on over 98% of internet connected computers worldwide so you will not have to install any software prior to attending the meeting. You will be able to login to the seminar room 15 minutes prior to the start time on the day of the presentation. You can hear the audio using your computer’s speakers via VoIP (Voice over IP) and background music will play prior to the beginning of the presentation.

Detailed system requirements

Microsoft® Windows Vista® Home Basic, Home Premium, Ultimate, Business, or Enterprise (32-bit edition)

  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 or later
  • Mozilla Firefox 2
  • Adobe Flash® Player 8 or later

Microsoft Windows® XP Professional or Home Edition with Service Pack 2

  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, 7
  • Mozilla Firefox 1.x, 2.x
  • Mozilla 1.x or later
  • Netscape 7.x
  • Adobe Flash Player 8 or later

Microsoft Windows 2000 with Service Pack 4

  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.x
  • Mozilla Firefox 1.x, 2.x
  • Mozilla 1.x
  • Netscape 8
  • Adobe Flash Player 8 or later

Windows hardware requirements

  • Intel® Pentium® II 450MHz or faster processor or equivalent (1GHz recommended when screen sharing)
  • 128MB of RAM

Mac OS X v10.4, 10.5 (Intel)

  • Firefox 1.5.0.3, 2.x
  • Safari 2.x
  • Adobe Flash Player 8 or later

Mac OS X v10.4 (PowerPC®)

  • Safari 1.x, 2.x
  • Firefox 1.x
  • Mozilla 1.x
  • Netscape 7.x or later
  • Adobe Flash Player 8 or later

Mac OS hardware requirements

  • PowerPC G3 500MHz or faster or Intel Core™ Duo 1.83GHz or faster processor
  • 128MB of RAM

Linux:

  • Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® (REHL) 3 update 8; RHEL 4 update 4 (AS/ES/WS); Novell SUSE® 9.x or 10.1
  • Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.7, 2.x
  • Mozilla 1.7.x
  • SeaMonkey 1.0.5
  • Processor: Modern processor 800MHz or faster (1GHz recommended)
  • Memory: 512MB of RAM; 128MB of graphics memory
  • Adobe Flash Player 9 or later

Solaris™

  • Mozilla 1.7
  • Adobe Flash Player 9 or later

Additional requirements

  • Minimum bandwidth 56Kbps