[accident]

Hello,

I am an eager hobbyist coder who has been enjoying the world of embedded devices for a long time not realizing just how simple it would be to make my own software. I have been working on some personal media collection jukebox style software for awhile but designed mainly to run on other existing retail products and I would like to take this to the next level..

The problem I'm running into is getting someone to talk with me so I can pick up a development board and run with it.. I really have no issues with NDA agreements, I've signed a ton of them over the years with companies that well I cannot say because of the agreements. I also have no problems with the expense to purchase a dev kit.

Unless my research is seriously flawed, can someone point me in the correct direction for how I would go about getting started? I really like to specs on the mali chipset and think I can use it to do some exciting things..

Thanks,
Bryan

This post has been edited by accident: 31 May 2010 - 03:09 AM

[Nizar Romdan]

accident, on May 31 2010, 04:08 AM, said:

Hello,

I am an eager hobbyist coder who has been enjoying the world of embedded devices for a long time not realizing just how simple it would be to make my own software. I have been working on some personal media collection jukebox style software for awhile but designed mainly to run on other existing retail products and I would like to take this to the next level..

The problem I'm running into is getting someone to talk with me so I can pick up a development board and run with it.. I really have no issues with NDA agreements, I've signed a ton of them over the years with companies that well I cannot say because of the agreements. I also have no problems with the expense to purchase a dev kit.

Unless my research is seriously flawed, can someone point me in the correct direction for how I would go about getting started? I really like to specs on the mali chipset and think I can use it to do some exciting things..

Thanks,
Bryan

Hi Bryan and welcome to the Mali Forums,

You can start by looking at the tutorials provided with the Mali UI Engine and running them on the OpenGL ES 2.0 Emulator and then you can move to a more complex application like Lotion UI example (provided with the Mali UI Engine).

You can also order the ST-Ericsson MOP-500 development board and move your applications from running on the emulator to running on the Mali hardware.

Here's also a previous post about how to get started http://forums.arm.co...showtopic=13837

Cheers,
Nizar

[accident]

Thanks, this is excellent information and gives me a place to start....

I'm actually not interested in mobile at all my interest is with the TCC8900 dev board but any requets for a quote have gone unanswered.. your information give me a place to start but is there a trick with getting a quote?