14 DAY TRIAL // The design arm of ALTEN Group, Calsoft Labs has just announced it has reached an agreement with Freescale to certify Adobe Flash Player on i.MX51 applications processor platform
Under agreement, Calsoft Labs will be allowed to commercially distribute Adobe Flash Player 10.1 on Freescale's i.MX51 development platforms.
Calsoft Labs is a well-known Adobe scaling partner and offers Flash Player porting, certification and upgrade services as well as Flash Player licenses.
The company is an important player in the smartphone market and it has successfully completed numerous Flash Player ports to various operating systems, including Android.
“The i.MX51 family of processors with ARM Cortex A8 CPU running at as fast as 800 MHz is ideal for running rich Flash based content on a wide range of multimedia devices. An accelerated Flash Player solution will enable OEMs to deliver PC-like browser experiences on tablet class devices,” said Anand Joshi, vice president of Digital Home Technology BU at Calsoft Labs.
The i.MX51 applications processor platform is aimed at a larger range of CE applications such as tablets and other devices, including smartphones that require high performance and low power.
“Our collaboration with Calsoft Labs means that i.MX51 customers can now more fully leverage the Flash Player. Support for optimized, rich browsing of Flash based content is crucial for our customers. A certified reference platform is expected to reduce time to market for OEMs developing their devices using our advanced i.MX51 platform,” said Rajeev Kumar, i.MX product line manager for Freescale's Multimedia Applications Division.
Based on the ARM Cortex- A8 CPU, the i.MX51 integrates a hardware video decoder and will support several video formats including H.264, On2 VP6, and Sorenson Spark.
However, hardware decoded videos will be required to enable quality playback of video content on the Internet from various websites, including YouTube.