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Title: Android 7.1 on Apalis TK1 - NVIDIA TK1-based SoM


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  • Android 7.1 on Apalis TK1

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Having found its way into everyones pockets on
board of a shiny new smartphone, Android has
become the worlds most popular operating system.
Constantly evolving to meet the demands of a
global community of users, the OS is shaping the
future of User Interfaces, influencing user
habits and behavior.
With Android now available for embedded devices,
the industry can also tap into this global
community a short introduction into why Android
is worth considering for your next embedded
product was included in Antmicros previous guest
post for Toradex. Today we follow up with an
announcement of Antmicros brand-new Android 7.1
demo image for Toradex Apalis TK1 and the
accompanying TK1 baseboard, bringing a familiar,
cutting-edge UI experience to a small
form-factor, high-performance Tegra K1 solution,
easy to embed in your product.
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At Embedded World, as every year, Toradex and
Antmicro partnered up to present a demonstrator
of the Android 7.1 Nougat, which is a significant
step up from Android 5.1 shown the year before.
The Android 7.1 image premiered alongside
Antmicros TK1 Baseboard designed to accommodate
the NVIDIA TK1-based Apalis SoM by Toradex and
the combination gathered quite some attention, so
we decided to describe it in more detail in this
guest post.
Antmicro and Toradex will also be co-exhibiting
the demo next week at NVIDIAs GPU Technology
Conference GTC, at the San Jose Convention Center
in Silicon Valley, from May 08-11, 2017.
Antmicros Industrial Android 7.1 Nougat on
Toradex Apalis TK1 at Embedded World 2017
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  • Android 7.1 Nougat features
  • Android 7.1 Nougats new features include
  • Split screen (allowing to display two apps at the
    same time - a feature that might come in handy
    for more complex control systems for factories,
    construction sites, access systems etc.)
  • Improved security mechanisms
  • Improved processing speed
  • Vulkan 1.0 support (a graphic library for 3D
    graphics that can be used instead of OpenGL and
    OpenGL ES, see more details here)
  • Extended support for Java 8 and OpenJDK
  • File-level encryption (previously only the whole
    disk could be encrypted)
  • Folder-level access rights granularity for apps
    (in previous versions, the developer could only
    allow/deny access to the entire disk).

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As is visible from the above list, apart from
being more modern in every possible way, Android
7.1 brings some potentially ground-breaking
features to the table the screen-splitting
functionality expands Android onto new potential
use cases (with Samsung already experimenting
with the idea of replacing your desktop with a
smartphone), the Vulkan support brings modern 3D
acceleration capabilities making better use of
the multicore CPU and GPU of the Tegra K1, and a
significantly extended set of supported Java 8
features improves the application software
development experience, which can be a key factor
for the ability to respond quickly to market
needs.
Finally, allowing fine-grained control in the
encryption and file access area makes it easier
to build secure and isolated systems.
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Why is Nougat a good match for the Apalis
TK1? The powerful quad-core CPU and 192-core GPU
of the Tegra K1 can make full use of the
capabilities of Android known from mobile
systems, including video playback, camera image
capture and real-time processing, driving
high-resolution displays these are typically
associated with high-performance use-cases where
users expect a superb UI experience, comparable
to their top-of-the-line smartphone. Android 7.1
offers exactly that. Additionally, as a
multi-core CPU/GPU hybrid, the Apalis TK1 is an
excellent match for the new Vulkan API, allowing
for a low-level control of how code is executed
on the hardware and thus getting the most of
TK1s capabilities.
New UI capabilities, including split screen, will
be useful for higher resolution screens which
again are more naturally suited to TK1.
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Antmicros TK1 Baseboard Antmicro has prepared a
hardware platform especially tailored for the
Toradex Apalis TK1 SoM and Android use. Apart
from typical IO interfaces like USB, Gigabit
Ethernet or HDMI, the board has two slots for
expansion cards for mini PCIe and SATA. This
setup allows to easily modify the device by
adding extra cards for storage or wireless
connectivity necessary in high-end products. To
accommodate the growing demand for vision
processing in embedded systems, an FPC connector
on the TK1 baseboard exposes all of the MIPI
CSI-2 interfaces offered by the TK1 module (three
in total, 2x4 lane and 1x1 lane). Combined with a
modern Android UI and vision processing
capabilities in the CUDA-enabled integrated GPU,
solutions gathering video input, analyzing it in
real time and presenting an interactive
application on a user-facing screen can be
created - including smart screens, augmented
reality, advertising or gaming solutions.
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Antmicros TK1 Baseboard with Camera Extension
Board
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This approach was also implemented in the AXIOM
Gamma 4K open camera (and described in more
detail in our first guest post for Toradex),
where Android provides the user interface for the
device, offering a live video preview with menus
allowing to alter the cameras processing
behavior. Besides MIPI CSI-2, the FPC interface
also includes a couple of low-speed interfaces
like I2C, UART or SPI, which makes it possible to
use external expansion boards with cameras and
additional sensors. The board is offered as a dev
kit bundled with an expansion board equipped with
two Omnivision OV5640 cameras along with
detachable optics. However, it is worth to note
that custom boards with customized sensors will
usually still require in-depth system tweaking
for optimal results. Antmicro can cover such
boards in Android on request.
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Antmicros Industrial Android 7.1 Nougat on
Apalis TK1 at Embedded World 2017
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How to get it Demo images will be available soon
on the Toradex website. If you are eager to start
building your next Android Nougat solution now,
visit the dedicated Android service page or
contact Michael Gielda directly at
mgielda_at_antmicro.com.
Antmicro offers customized carrier boards and
software customization services to make your
latest Android image for Toradex SoMs a great
user experience we develop drivers, boot
animations, update systems, system components and
applications and AI/video processing algorithms.
Older Android versions or migrations between
system versions are possible as well if needed.
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