HP Inks Agreement with Delphi Automotive Systems to Embed Chai Software in Mobile Multimedia Product.High Tech Writers PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 22, 2000 ChaiVM Selected for Speed,Small Footprint and Strong Support Environment Hewlett-Packard Company today announced a seven-year, multimillion-dollar licensing agreement with Delphi Automotive Systems See ITS, embedded system, drive-by-wire, adaptive cruise control, collision avoidance system, autonomous vehicle, heads-up display, DSRC, lane departure system, CAN bus, FlexRay and SYNC. to embed HP's ChaiVM virtual machine for Java(TM) applications and ChaiAWT graphics display software in a mobile multimedia product now under development. Delphi Automotive Systems, (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : DPH DPH Diploma in Public Health. DPH abbr. 1. Diploma in Public Health 2. Doctor of Public Health 3. Doctor of Public Hygiene ), headquartered in Troy, Mich., is a world leader in transportation and mobile electronics components and systems technology. Its mobile multimedia product line focuses on developing and marketing mobile products that provide advanced communication, information and entertainment systems for light- and heavy-duty vehicle applications. Marketed under the Communiport brand, Delphi offers advanced audio smart radios, telematics and rear-seat entertainment systems that provide a host of services, including navigation services, Internet access See how to access the Internet. , e-mail, voice memo, integrated hands-free telephone, address books, voice recognition, DVD players and other mobile office and entertainment features. "We are very pleased that Delphi has selected Chai technology for incorporation into a leading-edge mobile multimedia product," said Jacques Clay, vice president of HP's Personal Appliances and Services Organization. "Our goal is to provide a powerful, complete solution that will save development time and manufacturing costs, freeing our customers to focus on innovation at the application level." Because of the minimal hardware support requirements for applications running on the HP ChaiVM, a huge variety of mobile communications and multimedia applications can now be supported cost-effectively in the automotive market. Examples of such applications include telematics systems that reach specialized call centers with cellular voice communications combined with data from global positioning satellite systems; rear-seat entertainment systems that access Web-based full-motion video Video transmission that changes the image 30 frames per second (30 fps). Motion pictures are run at 24 fps, which is the minimum frequency required to eliminate the perception of moving frames and make the images appear visually fluid to the eye. and streaming audio A one-way audio transmission over a data network. It is widely used on the Web as well as company networks to play audio clips and Internet radio. Computers in home networks stream audio (mostly music) to digital media hubs connected to home theaters. applications; and advanced Web-based navigation systems that support voice-recognition and text-to-speech capabilities. HP's ChaiFreezeDry technology delivers a compelling advantage to developers seeking to build appliances that can host Java applications with minimal memory resources. The technology is both a new format for representing Java class files more efficiently and a new class loader that transforms standard Java class files into the new format without removing any information from the files. By consolidating and running Java applications in a concentrated form, ChaiFreezeDry technology reduces the memory footprint Memory footprint refers to the amount of main memory that a program uses or references while running. This includes all sorts of active memory regions like code, static data sections (both initialized and uninitialized), heap, as well as all the stacks, plus memory required to hold required by an application by up to 50 percent. The HP TurboChai ahead-of-time compiler also plays a critical role in providing the strong application performance advantage for the HP ChaiVM virtual machine, enabling up to a twenty-fold speed increase for Java applications. The compiler is designed to take advantage of all the powerful resources available on an application-development system to optimize code performance, while the TurboChai run-time environment (operating system) run-time environment - A collection of subroutines and environment variables that provide commonly used functions and data for a program while it is running. Compare run-time support. is tightly integrated with the HP ChaiVM virtual machine to provide optimal performance. The result is Java execution performance that is close to applications written in C or C++. The Chai Appliance Platform is an integrated suite of software products designed to power the next generation of memory-constrained intelligent appliances. The embedded software Instructions that permanently reside in a ROM or flash memory chip. Embedded software may be immediately available to the CPU or, for faster execution, may be transferred to RAM first and then executed. platform extends e-services from enterprise systems to intelligent appliances and provides device manufacturers with more functionality and the ability to customize, allowing products to get to market faster and at a lower cost. A key component of the Chai Appliance Platform is HP's ChaiVM, a small-footprint, scalable environment for running Java applications on intelligent devices. ChaiVM offers superior Java application performance using HP's TurboChai compiler and the smallest memory footprint using HP's ChaiFreezeDry technology. Other components of the platform include an embedded Web-based application server, connectivity to e-services, device manageability via HP OpenView Network Node Manager, a mobile database, an XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. microbrowser A Web browser designed for small display screens on smartphones and other handheld wireless devices. See smartphone and WAP. , a toolkit for creating graphical displays, and standards-based spontaneous networking. About HP Hewlett-Packard Company -- a leading global provider of computing and imaging solutions and services -- is focused on making technology and its benefits accessible to individuals and businesses through simple appliances, useful e-services and an Internet infrastructure that's always on. Excluding Agilent Technologies, HP has 86,000 employees worldwide and had total revenue from continuing operations continuing operations Parts of a business that are expected to be maintained as an ongoing segment of an overall business operation. Income and losses from continuing operations are reported separately if any segments have been discontinued during the of $42.4 billion in its 1999 fiscal year. Information about HP and its products can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.hp.com. Java is a U.S. trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc. |
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