The Evolution of Mobile Technology Part 4: Breaking Down Challenges in Open Source Tricks of the Trade
September 30, 2009
Moderated by Jim McGregor Chief Technology Strategist In-Stat Introduction . Welcome to the Evolution of Mobile Technology webinar series featuring: . Designing of High-Performance and All-Day Battery life (replay available) . Design Challenges of Supporting Multiple Connectivity Technologies Architectures (replay available) . The Evolution of Mobile Processing Architectures (replay available) . Breaking Down Challenges in Open Source – Tricks of the Trade . The Impact of the Cloud on Mobile Devices (Nov. 3) . The Future of Wireless Technologies (Dec. 8) . Today’s host: . Jim McGregor, Chief Technology Strategist, In-Stat . Agenda: . 5-minute overview . 30-minute discussion by panelists . 25-minute live Q&A . Webinar archive available at: . www.ti.com/wirelesspresenations . www.instat.com Panelists
. Jason Kridner . Open platforms principal architect for TI’s application processor group . Defines TI's applications processors strategy for growing the open platform ecosystem of developers and customer base . Designed and drives the development of the BeagleBoard
. Eric Thomas . Linux product marketing manager for TI’s wireless group . Identifies, defines, and advocates opportunities to enhance the support of Linux on TI’s application and wireless processors . Defines TI’s activities related to Linux mobile products and the Open Handset Alliance . Represents TI on the board of directors of The Linux Foundation Overview
. Market dynamics (Jim) . Reasons . Limitations . Outlook
. Considerations, challenges and tools (Jason/Eric) . What challenges are likely to be encountered . Required tools and support . TI solutions Why open source?
. Potential benefit to OEMs . Low cost . Standardization . Army of engineering resources . Quicker time to market
. Change in the software stack . Programmable system designs . Remote and hybrid network applications . 3rd party applications Outlook
. Open source is the direction . Transition tied to software stack
. Only a few will survive in each segment . Handsets and smartphones moving quickly . Rapidly evolving platforms . Growth of Internet connectivity . Limitation on local resources . Computing moving slowly . Mature platform . Applications slowly moving to the Internet (cloud) Growing number of open choices
Handset / smartphones Network / computing
. Chrome OS . Android . Moblin . LiMo . MontaVista . Maemo . Red Hat . Symbian* . SUSE . Ubuntu
* Listed as open source but historically a closed OS In-Stat’s forecast
2009 Smartphone OS Market Share 2014 Smartphone OS Market Share Symbian 25.4% Symbian Other 49.1% 3.0% Windows Mobile Maemo & 9.0% Other Other 2.6% Linux Windows 8.0% Maemo & Mobile RIM Other 9.0% 15.6% Linux 0.2% Apple Apple 19.5% 14.4% RIM Android 20.2% 4.5% Android 19.5%
TAM = 153.5 million units TAM = 412.0 million units
Source: In-Stat, Sept. 2009 Limitations
History Challenges . Consortium creep . Applications . Fragmentation . Battery life . Tools & support . Security . Cost . Standards . Lack of independent . Lifecycle support driver . Quality . Performance . Risk mitigation . Training Open source: Design considerations, challenges and tools
Jason Kridner Open platforms principal architect TI’s application processor group
Eric Thomas Linux product marketing manager TI’s wireless group Open source design considerations
. Balancing community benefits . Avoid isolation from the community and integration churn . Focusing on your value add . Avoid starting down a path that won’t meet your needs . Progressive technology baseline . Avoid being obsolete before your time
Case study: Android Alone? Absolutely not.
. Give-and-take in community engagement . Goals aligned? . Benefits to progressing community platform? . What is the baseline update frequency? . Update effort = Delta from starting baseline * New baselines . Stable snapshot development . Community synchronized . Increases stability . Increases potential churn . Isolates from community . Leverages the community . High update cost with reduced . Requires defined method for support and external contribution. maintaining value-add
update effort
update effort Focus on your value add
. Platform with a myriad of options . Ready analog, connectivity, and sensors Supported . Standard expansion busses and drivers Your value add . Open hardware with many implementations . Choose a baseline close to where you add value . Integrated vertical stack or a subset of assembled components? . Avoid futile platform enhancements that reduce ROI
Example: Android baseline and integration points . Connectivity, location, motion, orientation, … . Content provider and service interfaces . Distributions, tools, or components on OMAP3 . Google, Embinux, 0xLab, Mentor Graphics, Mistral, MOTO, Ingenient, MontaVista, NthCode, MMS, TI, and others Don’t be ‘out-of-date’ before ‘out-of-gate’
. Open source should add value to great technology . Be wary of strong communities supporting aging products . Companies release specifications to minimize ongoing support . Users add enhancements to a commercial consumer product . Replacement for closed source component . Ensure technical specs good before diving into community . Will the supported hardware be sufficient for your market window? . Is the software platform up to date?
Vital component: Android’s progressive nature Progressive nature of OMAP™ platform
. Solid foundation for continuing innovation . Latest generation platform to fuel innovation
Products
Open Development Platforms Zoom-I BeagleBoard Zoom-II OMAP 2 platform OMAP 3 platform OMAP 4 platform
. Web browsing and web acceleration capabilities . 720p HD video acceleration . 8-megapixel camera sensor . WVGA . Expandability, including USB client and Host Open access to OMAP™ platform resources
. Full range of low-cost systems for development and validation . LogicPD’s Zoom™ OMAP34x-II Mobile Development Platform . BeagleBoard.org’s OMAP3530 processor-based USB-powered single board computer . Full documentation at your fingertips . OpenMAX™ IL and OpenGL® ES libraries that enable integration and UI innovation . Free access to DSP acceleration components and compilers . Community collaboration on new solutions enabled by current- generation hardware Deploying Android on Zoom™ OMAP34x-II MDP 1 Prepare Your Environment Applications • Order Zoom-II MDP using OMAPZoom.org • Configure your Host Linux System Android Platform • Install packages required to build Android
OpenMAX IL w/ WLAN, 2 OpenGL ES Get the Sources HW Acceleration Bluetooth • Via public GIT trees at source.android.com Linux Kernel for Zoom-II MDK AND git.omapzoom.org
3 Building Android • Enable optional features • Multimedia HW Accelerators, WLAN, BT • Build boot loaders, Linux kernel, Android platform
4 Create and Deploy File System • Install system binaries onto SD Card, NFS, or NAND • Boot your system !
Details and Videos at http://omappedia.org/wiki/Android_Getting_Started17 Complete board, complete resources: Zoom™ OMAP34x-II MDP resources OMAPZoom.org
Zoom II hardware reference platform
Board and project mailing lists
Technical reference manuals
Active WiKi page: http://OMAPpedia.org
IRC channel: TM OMAP Android project keeping up to date with latest #linux-omap releases from source.android.com Complete board, complete resources: BeagleBoard BeagleBoard.org
Personally affordable @ $149
Community of >2000 participants
Promotes expression of your innovations in wikis, blogs, …
Instant access to >10 mil lines of code to start
Open hardware and documentation for making your own Summary
. OMAP solutions enable a variety of software platforms
. OMAP-based platforms keep up with community to help reduce risks of getting to market
. You’re not alone: Robust community surrounding the OMAP platform
. Open platforms enable you to focus on value add
. Don’t settle for poor technology in search of benefits of open source Q & A
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www.ti.com/wirelesspresentations community.ti.com/blogs/mobilemomentum Contact information
Jason Kridner Open Platforms Principal Architect, TI’s Application Processor Group [email protected] Eric Thomas Linux Product Marketing Manager, TI’s Wireless Group [email protected]
Jim McGregor Chief Technology Strategist In-Stat [email protected]