Renesas Electronics and its Platinum Alliance Partner MPC Data have announced a demonstration platform showing a Renesas MS7724 platform booting a Linux kernel and graphical QT application in less than one second.
The demonstration adds support for the SH7724 32bit SuperH microprocessor to MPC Data's swiftBoot offering. The SuperH microprocessor is based on the SH4A core and operates at 500MHz delivering 900DMIPS and 3.5GFLOPS of performance. It features high-performance hardware video processing and graphics acceleration allowing up to 720pixel video at 30frames/s, and an integrated LCD control unit. Focusing on device-specific tuning, MPC Data is able to cold boot to a functional application in less than a second on a range of SoCs, development boards and core architectures.
MPC Data offers a range of swiftBoot services that will be able to decrease the boot time of an embedded Linux device and give users an ‘Instant On' experience.
Some of the key market sectors that can benefit from quicker boot times include portable navigation; video conference system / security systems, in-home display for metering; media player, digital camera; power management; and industrial.
