| Special effects GUI dev kit targets ARM9 board, supports Windows CE |
Sep. 23, 2005
 Fluffy Spider Technologies (FST) of Australia has ported its consumer device user interface development kit to an ARM-based development board that targets handheld consumer devices. The company says its FancyPants graphics platform supports Aiji Systems's SMDK2410 board for Samsung's S3C2410X01, a 16/32-bit ARM920T-based SoC (system-on-chip) processor.
(Click for slightly larger view of SMDK2410 dev board)
FST says its FancyPants lightweight graphics software allows limited-resource devices to deliver rich multimedia experiences. On the SMDK2410 board, its "FastRender" technology can deliver full-screen, 25fps video during CD-quality audio playback, the company says.
Special effects supported by FancyPants include skinning, overlays, and fancy effects, and targets media-centric consumer and mobile devices, such as POS (point-of-sales/service) systems, set-top boxes, and mobile phones. According to FST, FancyPants requires less that 3MB of disk space, yet can apply sophisticated special effects over on-screen elements, including still images and running video. Effects include soft shadows, screen and image transitions, fades and wipes, 32-bit alpha blending, animations, glitter, color manipulation, scaling, rotation, 3D folds, and more.
SMDK2410 dev board
The SMDK2410 development board includes 8MB of AMD boot Flash, 16MB of Intel StrataFlash, and 64MB of Sansung NAND Flash, along with 64MB of SDRAM. Interfaces include TFT/STN LCD/touch panel, three UART (including IrDA), two USB ports, SD/MMC interface, smart media card interface, JTAG port, RTC X-tal input logic, I2C, ADC, SPI, EINT, Ethernet, PCMCIA, and an LED disply for debugging.
The SMDK2410 includes all kinds of mobile device I/O
FST's managing director, Robi Karp, said, "Formal support for the [SMDK2410] board allows developers to quickly experiment. We have already seen a number of new applications, since we started testing on the board, and are looking forward to helping current and future clients in experiencing the power of FancyPants on the ARM processor."
Availability
FancyPants is available now, with support for Windows CE, Linux, and Symbian UIQ. In addition to ARM9, the software also supports ARM11, XScale, and x86 processors.
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