MIPS Technologies says it has been swamped with requests for source code it made available following its port of the Google's Android platform to the MIPS architecture.
"Since we announced public availability of the Android on MIPS source code earlier this month, over 600 people have registered to access the code, and we actually had to add server and network capacity in order to meet demand," said Art Swift, vice president of marketing at MIPS Technologies.
MIPS is working with chip vendors and working groups of the Open Embedded Software Foundation (OESF), an organization focused on driving Android beyond mobile handsets, to define standardised Android-based platforms for consumer devices such as set-top boxes, digital TVs, mobile internet devices (MIDs), home media players and VoIP systems.
"Together with our ecosystem partners, silicon partners and Early Access Customers, we are making incredible progress in driving Android into devices beyond the mobile handset," said Swift.
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The latest move has been the demonstration of full high-definition (HD) video running on the Android smartphone platform.
MIPS is working with multi-media system-on-chip developer, Sigma Designs to demonstrate an Android-based system displaying 1080p video on a full HD flat screen display.
"This HD video demonstration is a major milestone toward the creation of a reference platform for an Android-based set-top box," said the company.
Sigma Designs has already demonstrated a Blu-ray reference design for Android.
"We are pleased to now show full HD video on a MIPS-Based platform from Sigma -- a platform that was selected as an official Android reference port for the Open Embedded Software Foundation (OESF0 set-top box working group," said Ken Lowe, v-p of strategic marketing, Sigma Designs.
To enable Android to run on an HD screen rather than the small screen of a mobile handset, it was necessary for the companies to enhance the Android libraries. Sigma Designs extended libraries within Android to support hardware graphics acceleration and hardware decoding to take advantage of their SoC capabilities for HD.
MIPS Technologies is also making performance optimizations specifically for the MIPS32 architecture. This optimised code will be available in the future as part of the publicly-available Android on MIPS code.