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Tizen TV Architecture Overview Tizen TV Architecture Overview Seokjae Jeong, Ph.D. Samsung Electronics 20. Oct. 2014 Architecture Tizen Architecture for Mobile Applications Web Applications Native Applications Web Framework Native Framework Core Application Graphics & UI Multimedia Web Messaging Location Framework Security System Base Connectivity Telephony PIM Kernel Linux Kernel & device drivers Mobile Specific Component 3 Tizen Architecture for TV (ongoing) Applications Web Applications Native Applications Web Framework Native Framework Core Application Graphics & UI Multimedia Web Messaging Location Framework Security System Base Connectivity TV Broadcasting PIM Kernel Linux Kernel & device drivers TV Specific Removed Component component 4 Tizen Architecture for TV (ongoing) Applications Web Applications Web Framework W3C/HTML5 Device APIs Web UI FW Caph Core Applications (in-house) Web Runtime Core Application Graphics & UI Multimedia Web TV Broadcasting Framework Security System Base Connectivity Kernel Linux Kernel & device drivers 5 Hardware Adaption and Kernel • Features: • Linux Kernel & Device Drivers • Hardware Adaptation Layer • Plug-ins • OpenGL ES/EGL Graphics Driver • DRM-based graphics stack • DVB subsystem for TV Broadcasting HAL Multimedia TV Broadcasting X-Drivers Deviced Connectivity Plug-ins Plug-ins Plug-ins (Video/Input) Plug-ins Linux Kernel & Device Driver DRM (Graphics) ALSA (Sound) / Key/MMC/USB DMABUF (Buf. Mgt.) IPC: KDBUS V4L2, DVB (Media) Driver GPU(3D) Driver 6 Core subsystems Core API Core subsystems App FW Graphics & TV Broadcasting Security System Input AppLife Cycle Mgmt TV Service Access Control (app-core) (SMACK) System (tv-service) 2D (system-server) App Launch Certification (EFL, cairo) TV Player (AUL, app-service) (tv-player) (cert-svc) Sensor TV Context Manager Crypto (sensor-fw, plugin) 3D Broadcast Stream (context-manager) (OpenSSL) (DALi, OpenGL ES/EGL) (Gstreamer, plugin) Power Mgmt Package Mgmt Connectivity (libslp-pm) (slp-pkgmgr) Multimedia Window Mgmt (e17) Network Configuration Web Video (net-config) Base (Gst, plugin) Web UI FW & Caph Window System Bluetooth (web-ui-fw) (X11) Audio (Bluez) IPC (Gst,PulseAudio) (D-Bus) JS Engine HTTP Camera (JavaScriptCore) Font (libsoup,libcurl) (GStreamer) Database (Fontconfig, freetype2) Runtime Connection (SQLite) (WRT) Audio Policy (ConnMan) (ASM) ISF, Voice FW Essentials Layout & Rendering Wi-Fi (isf, ise, STT, TTS, plugin) 3D Audio (glibc, …) (WebKit2/EFL) (wpa_supplicant) (OpenAL) New for TV 7 Web API • Standard HTML5 + Tizen Device API Web API Device API W3C Application HTML 5 Web UI FW & Caph Bluetooth CSS3 getUserMedia Network & Comm Storage Media Contents App Cache Web Worker Miscellaneous Notification Key Mapping WebAudio Download Game Pad WebSocket Web GL Typed Array File Web Notification Full Screen API App Cache Widget 8 Applications • Web Applications for all profiles • Web has been the primary app. development env. from Tizen 1.0 • SDK is available for Web App development • Many sample apps included in the SDK • Core Applications • Available for device implementers through components in Core subsystem Web Applications Web Framework W3C/HTML5 Device APIs Web UI FW getUserMedia Key Mapping BT TV Control Caph CSS3 Game Pad Application Media Con. Core Applications (in-house) Web Worker … Download … Web Runtime Core subsystem App. Framework Graphics & UI Multimedia Web TV Broadcasting Security System Base Connectivity 9 Core subsystems : Major changes from Tizen Mobile TV Broadcasting • Provides • Capability to scan and store TV broadcasting programs. • Data of the electronic program guide (EPG). • Play a live broadcasting stream (DTV/ATV). • Various formats and standards of captions. TV Broadcasting TV Service SCAN EPG Live TV Player Player Control Stream Control GStreamer Tuner Plugin Demux Plugin Caption Plugin Decoder Plugin Sink Plugin 11 Application Framework (1/3) • Provides • Launching Application (AUL, App-Service) • Explicit or implicit information (Combination of Action, URI, and MIME) can be used to determine an app to launch • Allow to launch different type of app (i.e. Web to Core and Core to Web) • Application life cycle management and handling system events (App- core) • Getting app state change notification or system events through main loop • Then, calling registered callbacks for the events • Installing/Uninstalling application (package-manager) • Managing application launched history (RUA) • Setting an alarm to launch at specific time (alarm-manager) • AUL : Application Utility Library 12 • RUA : Recently Used Application Application Framework (2/3) • Provides • Handling global key events with the remote controller to launch application based on TV UX scenario (TV Context Manager) Application Framework TV Context Manager App-core App- service AUL VCONF RUA Launch PAD package- alarm- Application DB AIL (AUL Daemon) manager manager New for TV 13 Application Framework (3/3) • TV Context Manager • Launching an application with AUL by key input on a TV remote control • Running rule-based actions based on TV UX scenario ex) Running an OSD app exclusively; when launching an OSD app, then other apps exit ex) Pushing “Exit” key terminates the running application and activate Live TV application on top-level Remote Control Live TV Input X Client UI & App Framework TV Context Manager App Core Input Window Home Screen Subsystem Manager Key Handler X Client Context X11 Handler App Core X server User App Task Manager Config X Client AUL AMD App Core 14 Graphics & Input (1/2) • Consists of: • Window System based on X11 • EFL(Enlightenment Foundation Libraries) • Rich Widgets multiple theme supports by Elementary • Retained mode canvas by Evas (Scene-graph, OpenGL ES back-end) • Composite Window Manager • TV ref. theme for TV UX (elementary) • 3D UI Toolkit - DALi • 3D (OpenGL ES) • Input Service (SCIM), Voice FW (STT, TTS) • Font (freetype2, fontconfig) 15 Graphics & Input (2/2) Graphics & Input elementary DALi Input Voice ecore Svc FW edje evas eet eina freetype2 fontconfig cairo OpenGL ES/EGL X Window System New for TV 16 Tizen TV Reference UX Tizen TV Reference UX (1/2) Apps panel home screen – live tv 18 Tizen TV Reference UX (2/2) Music Player Media Browser 19 Conclusion Conclusion (1/2) • Building Tizen TV Platform Architecture is ongoing • Web APIs • TV control API added • Mobile specific APIs removed • New core applications with TV ref. UX • Home screen, Live TV, Web browser, App. launcher, Multimedia Apps, etc. 21 Conclusion (2/2) • Major new/ revised core subsystems • TV Broadcasting • TV Specific Input & Application Scenario • TV Context Manager • Web UI Framework, Caph • Graphics & UI • TV theme for UI: GUI theme for TV widgets (EFL) • DALi, 3D UI Toolkit. • Kernel & Device Driver • Linux DVB subsystem for DTV broadcasting 22 .
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