As of today the NDIS-166 is still our primary development and validation platform. We are ordering some new NexCom VTC7KBK-IVI and VTC7KD1-IVI systems from Patrick at NexCom and expect the first units to arrive in early March. This will get us back to a more automotive friendly configuration. We've done some preliminary testing that indicates these platforms will be well supported, but until we get them into our validation lab for a week or so, we will hold off announcing them as a target platform.
regards Joel -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ryan Erwyn Ko Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 5:55 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [IVI] Best Hardware to use with Tizen IVI Hello, Joel. Just wanted to check if there is already a new reference hardware for the Tizen IVI. Is it still NDiS 166? Best Regards, Ryan On 2013/01/10 0:24, Clark, Joel wrote: > The Intel(tm) Atom(c) E640 CPU used in the VTC1000 has been available for a > few years and the drivers for this are considered to be in "sustaining" by > the Intel team that does the driver support. Updating the drivers > (particularly the graphics driver) to support new kernels and graphics > systems used in Tizen apparently could not be supported by this team. I would > like to have seen their support for Tizen continue at least until the next > generation IVI processor based platforms are widely available, but they > decided they could not continue new development on an older platform. > > It looks like that will be late this year (2013) or early next year. The > Tizen team has been using the NexCom NDIS166 with a B810 CPU for several > months because architecturally this is very similar to the next generation > IVI processor. Anything that works on this system should work on the next > Intel IVI systems. > > We picked the NDIS166 because it was the only ready to use out of the box, > product quality designed for embedded system we could find that would support > the B810 CPU when we looked for this several months ago. Unfortunately it is > not designed for automotive use. But software developed on this should work > well on automotive systems. > > We are in the process of evaluating a new interim platform (another NexCom > VTC platform) designed for automotive that will use the Intel 847e processor, > which is an even better match to the next generation IVI processors than the > B810. I expect to be able to announce the successful evaluation of this > platform later this month. We are also working to ensure NexCom and other > vendors are able to provide platforms with the next generation IVI processor > as soon as possible, but I don't have a firm schedule for this yet, and I'm > sure it won't be in the next 6 months. > > Again we expect any software developed on the NDIS166 or the new VTC platform > we are evaluating will continue to work fine on the next generation Intel IVI > platforms because of the compatible processor architecture. Specifically the > SOC drivers used for the Intel(tm) Atom(C) E640 (aka Tunnel Creek) are not > forward compatible with the NDIS166 B810 or the 847e or the next generation > Intel IVI SOC, but the SOC drivers for the B810 and 847e are forward > compatible with the next generation Intel IVI SOC. > > https://wiki.tizen.org/wiki/IVI/IVI_Platforms > > regards > Joel > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Ryan Erwyn Ko > Sent: Monday, January 07, 2013 10:37 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [IVI] Best Hardware to use with Tizen IVI > > Hello, > > Our company is considering buying the VTC1000 for use with Tizen IVI, but > based on the wiki, the previews starting from November 13, 2013 no longer > support this hardware. > > Is the NDiS 166 the new reference hardware for Tizen IVI? Is there a better > "futureproof" hardware for use with Tizen IVI? The ExoPC maybe? > > Best Regards, > Ryan > > _______________________________________________ > IVI mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.tizen.org/listinfo/ivi > _______________________________________________ IVI mailing list [email protected] https://lists.tizen.org/listinfo/ivi _______________________________________________ IVI mailing list [email protected] https://lists.tizen.org/listinfo/ivi
