Running Cell Simulator (SystemSim) on Ubuntu 9.04

Well, it took me all day, but I was able to get IBM's Cell processor simulator to run. It boots up a copy of Fedora 9 Linux which can be seen the the screenshot above. Next I want to write some code and experimenting with the Cell's SIMD processing.

Varia's Rumble-Mini

Varia has kindly allowed me to post these photos.

Here are some photos of Vairia's project, codename "Rumble-Mini" which I work on. This photo shows the Rumble-Mini device (based on Freescales i.MX-37 SoC). It runs the same application as the Varia Ibiza, which allows wifi-access to RealNetwork's Rhapody. The Rumble-Touch has a capacitive touchpad (not an overlay to LCD like the Rumble-Touch), 8 Gbytes of memory, and a WiFi radio. The operating system is Linux 2.6.24. The target price is in the $99 range.

Working on Rumble-Touch's touchscreen

This photo was taken when I was working on the touchscreen for Rumble-Touch. I wrote the Linux touchscreen input driver which controls the Analog Devices AD7147 capacitive-senor device.

When all these splayed-out parts are stuffed in the case, the LCD panel folds under the touchscreen glass and the battery is next to the main PCB. It all fits together into quite a small package.

Rumble-Touch side-by-side with iPhone

Here is a side-by-side view of the Rumble-Touch with an iPhone. This was an early version of the Rumble-Touch hardware and you can see the faint ITO (Indium Tin Oxide) pattern in the touchscreen surface. This has since been corrected, and now looks very good.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touchscreen#Capacitive for an overview of this technology.

Varia's Rumble-Touch

Varia has kindly allowed me to post these photos.

Here are some photos of Vairia's project, codename "Rumble-Touch" which I work on. These photos show the Rumble-Touch hardware (based on Freescales i.MX-37 SoC) running Android. It can also run the same application as the Varia Ibiza, which allows wifi-access to RealNetwork's Rhapody. The Rumble-Touch has a capacitive touchscreen, 8 or 16 Gbytes of memory, WiFi and Bluetooth radios. The operating system is Linux 2.6.24. The target price is in the $150 range.