How do we deliver ever increasing performance and innovation capabilities to mobile devices, while ensuring that we meet the key requirements for mobile devices: size and battery life? This will be the background of my presentation at SEE on enabling Symmetric Multi Processing SMP in Symbian devices.
Hello. My name is Marco Cornero, Head of Software and Applications Strategy at ST-Ericsson 3G Multimedia division.
There has been an astonishing development in mobile technology in the last few years. With the availability of open software platforms, Smartphones have become one of the fastest growing segments of the mobile industry. Access to open software platforms has accelerated innovation in the ecosystem, but it is also creating challenges for delivery of ever higher performance at lower power consumption.
When designing the U8500 smartphone platform, ST-Ericsson, in collaboration with Symbian, ARM and its customers made the choice to lead innovation by integrating an ARM Dual-core Cortex A9 architecture. The availability of the multicore architecture provides unprecedented performance and power efficiency.
Multicore processor architecture is a proven solution to satisfy peak performance demands while addressing the need for low power. Multicore devices deliver highly scalable performance at low power while offering high levels of design flexibility for mobile devices.
Dual-core architectures are already of immediate benefit to the multi-tasking nature of the current standard use cases. It is critical to make sure the whole chain is aligned when moving to a higher number of cores and is supporting the accompanying software innovation.. Enabling SMP in Symbian devices is an ecosystem activity and needs to engage multiple actors.
Making sure all the software layers make the best use of the available hardware architecture is the key to delivering on the promise of more for less – from an SMP enabled Symbian platform to browser optimization and best use of other integrated multimedia engines,
If you want to hear more on SMP and how it will benefit the advance in mobile capabilities, come and join us at SEE.
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Marco – will the SEE session be from an engineering perspective?
Looks good but I still wonder if we ever see a Symbian device with that architecture.
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The presentation gives an engineering perspective on the motivations for multi-processing, SMP in particular, with some details on Symbian support for SMP, and also some considerations on multi-processing performance scalability in general and on multimedia and web browsing in particular. I tried to make it high-level enough for a wide audience, but also relevant from an engineering perspective – I hope you will enjoy it.
You will certainly see Symbian devices based on U8500. Not yet at this conference though.
Hi Marco – I love the idea of ever increasing performance and innovation capabilities. Be great to hear about your thoughts around applications.