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March 2010

Kanji Mihara, Managing Director

Ubiquitous Corporation

Android / Linux

Boots in 1 second!

Agenda

Company Profile

Booting time matters

– Trends and issues

QuickBoot Overview

– Demo

– How it works

QuickBoot Technical Detail

– How to implement

– SDK

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Founded in 2001 by ex-Microsoft engineers

Aiming at pervasive networking with world

smallest TCP/IP and derivative products

Technology oriented, embedded software

expertise

Public company (JASDAQ NEO, since 2007)

Acquired Encirq’s DeviceSQL

embedded DBMS in 2008

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Company Profile

Portable Games Blu-ray Recorder

Less than 50KB in code size,

combining TCP/IP and SSL stack

Provided as the standard library

for the Nintendo-DS Wi-Fi games

Also used in “Nintendo DSi”

TCP/IP + SSL

by major Japanese CE

manufacturers

Multi-channel HDTV

streaming and upload using

DLNA

Car Audio & DSC

Ubiquitous-enabled Products

Fast and small DBMS

“DeviceSQL”

USB Host software

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Booting time matters

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User Experience

•Android takes 30sec~1min to boot

•Can you wait that long for TV or Tablet?

Standby Power

•Boot-time is the key for eco

Standby Power of Home AV Devices

“Fast Boot” mode consumes considerable

standby-power in home

Standby power of TV and DVR in total:

approx, 50W (47.8W) = 1 Light Bulb

= electricity cost : ~US$100 / year

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Standby Power (W) Avg Max Min

TV 24.45 68.0 11.7

HDD/DVD Recorders 23.3 40.4 18

Standby power using “Fast Boot” mode

Source: 2008 Standby power research in Japan

Why standby-mode is used?

“Cold Boot” or Eco-modeTakes long time (30sec~1min) before use = Horrible user experience

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【Cause】 Complexity of Digital Devices PC-like complex CPU and huge memory size Big OS like Linux or Android is used

“Fast Boot” (=standby) mode is used for user experience

Instant boot technology using “Cold Boot” The ultimate break-through

Needs for “QuickBoot”

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Automotive InforainmantTVs

SmartbookseBooks

SmartphonesTablets

DSCs

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Bluray / DVD

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Overview

Instant boot solution

– Launched this week

Android (Linux) boots in 1 second!

– Run application instantly from cold boot

– Instant boot even over 100MB image

Optimized for ARM processors

– QuickBoot Release 1.0 for ARM

– Supports: ARM9, ARM11, Cortex-A series

OS independent technology

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What’s QuickBoot ?

DEMO : Boot Android in 1 second

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Environment: Android 1.5

Debian based Linux(kernel 2.6.26)

Hardware: Armadillo-500FX

CPU: Freescale i.MX31 (ARM11) 400MHz

RAM Image Size: 128MB

(Uncompressed, no XIP)

Prioritized restoration of RAM image

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Hibernation vs. QuickBoot

Hibernation

Hibernation vs. QuickBoot (2)

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RAM Image RAM Image

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Memory size vs. Boot time

Comparison w/ other boot tech.

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Technology Boot Time Cons

Normal Boot ×30-90sec

Very long boot time

Kernel Tuning △5-30sec

Boot time depends on #of

device drivers and application

CPU Stand-by +

DRAM self-refresh

◎1-2sec

Not a cold boot, stand-by

power required

Hibernation △5-20sec

Boot time depends on #of

device drivers and application

Virtualization

(e.g. SplashTop)

○5-10sec

Limited application can only

be used, not a full Linux

Ubiquitous QuickBoot ◎1-2 sec

Complete Linux

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Tech.Detail

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Block Diagram

Note:

IRA: Intelligent Resource Allocator

QuickBoot Workflow

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2 types of QuickBoot usage

QuickBoot fixed mode

– QuickBoot from the factory default snapshot

image (static snapshot image) at any time.

QuickBoot update mode

– QuickBoot from the factory default snapshot

image at first.

– Create a snapshot image if necessary at

runtime.

– QuickBoot from the new snapshot image at

the next boot time.

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QuickBoot SDK

Reference Platform Support

– Armadillo500FX(i.MX31) from Atmark Techno

(Debian based Linux bundled)

CPU Support

– Phase 1

• ARM9, ARM11, Cortex-A8, Cortex-A9 Single core

– Phase 2

• ARM9, ARM11, Cortex-A8, Cortex-A9 Multi core (Linux SMP)

Materials–QuickBoot Snapshot Script (Source)

–QuickBoot Snapshot Driver (Binary)

–QuickBoot BIOS/IRA (Binary)

–Kernel patch (Source, GPL’d License)

–Bootloader (Sample code for Reference Board)

–Developers manual

–Application note

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Summary

Booting time matters

– For User experience and Eco

Ubiquitous QuickBoot is the ultimate break-

through by 1second cold-boot

QuickBoot now available for

ARM ONLY

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Q & A

謝謝

Product Lineup

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“Small, Light and Fast “ Network Platform

w/ World’s smallest TCP/IP stack

Network Platform for Tiny Devices

“Small, Light and Fast “

USB Host Platform

Small and Fast DBMS for embedded

systems

Link Protection for home network

Wireless LAN Solution

Instant Boot Solution for Embedded

systems