Re: Largest network of firmware engineers in the world is in...Cleveland? Yes...
Hi Bob, interesting point you raise about the talent in the Cleveland area. Just curious, but what are the employers and industry in the area that supports the pool of firmware engineering talent you...
View ArticleRe: Re: Mali Graphics Debugger : libGLES_mgd.so makes crash application
Hi, Yes the logcat is for the app Settings, I just got a white screen when I try to launch it. It's the same with all other apps. They don't crash but they don't draw anything either.I get some trace...
View ArticleRe: Suggestion of a ARM-based board for controlling the speed and direction...
I've seen a robot built using the FRDM-KL25Z and this Pololu Zumo shield which does more or less exactly what you're after. You'd then need to add the ultrasonic sensor and write the code. Hope this...
View ArticleRe: Mali Graphics Debugger : libGLES_mgd.so makes crash application
Ok so the story so far is:In the symbolicLink.txt file we can see these 2 lines: D/libEGL (27973): loaded /system/lib/egl/libEGL_mgd.so D/libEGL (27973): loaded...
View ArticleRe: Power Saving using VBO
subrhmanyam wrote: the GPU bus would be left alone as the copy data is a costly operation. A couple of points: Unlike desktop architectures where an upload really does upload to GPU VRAM, on a mobile...
View ArticleThe connected world
We have so many versions of what a connected world can do for us. Bill Wasik's (Senior editor, Wired magazine) 'Welcome to the programmable world' is still one of the best I have seen on the subject of...
View ArticleRe: Streamline with Pandaboard
I've been trying to get my ES board to work better, so I built a new kernel with CPU_FREQ, CPUIDLE disabled and DEFAULT_TRACERS enabled. When I tried gatord to capture an strace with this kernel, it...
View ArticleRe: MGD for non rooted devices?
Hi Chris, I believe I've worked out a method that appears to work nicely. Let me know if you see any issues with it. 1) Add libGLES_mgd.so as a prebuilt sharedlibrary to Android.mk2) Replace GLESv1_CM...
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who can manufacture a reference design and what are the formalities?
I'm looking for a company which can manufacture an ARM based design and would like to know the cost details, content protection etc
View ArticleRe: MGD for non rooted devices?
Hi Peter, Indeed, by Android.mk, I am referring to the application's makefile. So far it does seem to work in all cases (only tested on GLES 2.0 (Mali 400-MP), and not on 3.0 T6xx, yet). However, if...
View ArticleRe: Largest network of firmware engineers in the world is in...Cleveland? Yes...
The core industries here are Medical Devices, Aeronautics, Instrumentation, Industrial Automation and Motor Control. Here is my presentation given to the group last week. We had 74 in attendance. We...
View ArticleWhat is firmware?
Sad that I have to ask this question. Firmware runs just about every electrical system on the planet but no one can define it. But alas I think I just did. Firmware controls electrical systems. I...
View ArticleFirmware Engineers of the United States of America
Folks,We have a large local community I started in 2009 called 'Firmware Engineers of Northeast Ohio'. We're looking to go 503c on this but perhaps expand it to a national audience. This non-profits...
View ArticleRe: Largest network of firmware engineers in the world is in...Cleveland? Yes...
Thanks for sharing Bob, your a great speaker! good luck to you with your community. BTW have you seen our microcontroller development platform mbed.org, would be curious to get feedbackfrom...
View ArticleRe: Largest network of firmware engineers in the world is in...Cleveland? Yes...
Karthik, Great, I'm not so sure but I do appreciate the kind words. Please send me your development platform details at my email bob.scaccia@usafirmware.com. Perhaps we could do a review of it on...
View ArticleProblem with _global_reg()
Hi guys, I use a _global_reg var in my program to avoid save/load: _global_var uint32_t finished_pixels; this variable is updated in ADC interrupt. In main, I have following code: register uint32_t...
View ArticleRe: What games work on for Open GL 3.0 and why wont my iNew i6000+ phone...
There are currently only two applications(that aren't benchmarks) that require OpenGL ES 3.0 and are on the Android Market PlaceDolphin Emulator Alpha - Android Apps on Google PlayThe Descent - Android...
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Re: ASTC Evaluation Codec
Hi Sean, Mr. Pete has given correct details. I thank him for that. Kindly clarify below details also. Mr. Sean: As for the difference in sRGB decoding for void-extent blocks, I am not sure why this is...
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