Within Linaro Enterprise Group Semihalf will be pursuing future
directions for ARM and Linux on the most modern embedded hardware. This
includes working in areas like ARM server platform, ARMv8 (64-bit),
virtualization, UEFI and related aspects important for the enterprise.
More information about the LEG work can be found at this page.
26 Feb 2013
FreeBSD/arm transparent superpages.
In cooperation with the FreeBSD Foundation, Semihalf will develop and
bring support for transparent superpages on FreeBSD/arm.
For more information and details see this announcement.
In cooperation with The
FreeBSD Foundation and Juniper
Networks, Semihalf is releasing to the community its NAND Flash
framework for FreeBSD which was developed over the last years.
The NAND Flash stack consists of a driver framework for NAND controllers
and memory chips, a NAND device simulator and a fault tolerant,
log-structured file system, accompanied by tools, utilities and
documentation.
For more information and details see this announcement.
The talk will cover the recently developed FreeBSD support for Freescale
DPPA QorIQ family of chips.
30 Sep 2011
FreeBSD for modern embedded processors.
Semihalf keeps developing and bringing support for the most powerful
embedded processors available on the market. Among the recently completed
are the following platforms (see Portfolio
section for more details):
Semihalf promotional video with Texas Instruments.
Please see the latest video promoting Semihalf as TI partner member of
the 3rd Party community program. The video was shot last November during
Electronica 2010 trade fair in Munich, Germany.
30 Sep 2010
Semihalf at Electronica 2010.
Please meet Semihalf
and have a chance to witness our latest technologies at the upcoming
international trade fair Electronica 2010.
November 9 - 12 in Munich, Germany
Hall A6 Booth 613
6 Jul 2010
Moving to the new office.
Semihalf is expanding rapidly so on August 1st we are moving to a new
facility to fit our increasing design and development needs. Watch the
contact info section for updated address and telphone numbers.
18 Jun 2010
meetBSD 2010 technical conference is approaching.
As an organizer we are excited about the upcoming meetBSD conference,
which is only two weeks away! The event will be truly international, with
speakers and attendees from around the world. See more details at the
conference web page.
We are looking forward to seeing you all in Kraków, July 2nd.
The talk will cover the recently developed Flattened Device Tree support
for FreeBSD.
15 Feb 2010
Semihalf at Embedded World 2010.
Please enjoy the demo of Semihalf technologies at the upcoming Embedded
World trade fair. Our HASE-1 video analytics platform will be running a
real-time face detection and tracking application.
March 2 - 4 in Nuremberg, Germany
Texas Instruments booth: Hall 12 Stand 436
10 Feb 2010
TI DaVinci DM6446 @810MHz powering the latest revision of HASE-1 product.
We are proud to announce one of the world's first commercial systems
based on the new version of Texas Instruments DaVinci processor: the DM6446
running at 810MHz (DSP). Previous revisions of this chip could run up to
594MHz, so this brings a significant processing power increase of the DSP
unit.
19 Jan 2010
Organizing meetBSD 2010 technical conference.
Semihalf is happy to be involved with co-organizing this year's editon
of the meetBSD conference. The event will take place July 2-3 in Kraków,
Poland.
For more details please see the English or Polish web site of the conference.
26 Nov 2009
FreeBSD 8.0 has been released.
This important release brings a number of improvements for the embedded
FreeBSD platforms developed by Semihalf. This includes the following:
ARM platform support
Feroceon and Sheeva embedded CPU support
Marvell Orion (88F5181, 88F5182, 88F5281), Kirkwood (88F6281,
88F6192) and Discovery Innovation (MV-78100, MV-78200) system-on-chip
support
mge(4) Gigabit Ethernet driver
kernel mini dump support for ARM
PowerPC platform support
E500 (Book-E) embedded CPU support, including multi-core
Freescale PowerQUICCIII MPC8541, MPC8548, MPC8555 (single-core)
and MPC8572 (dual-core) system-on-chip support
sec(4) crypto engine driver
tsec(4) Gigabit Ethernet driver
U-Boot support library for loader(8) (ARM, PowerPC)
Lecture on embedded systems at the Jagiellonian University.
Semihalf co-founder Bartłomiej Sięka, Ph.D. will be presenting an
introductory lecture on embedded systems, hosted at the Mathematics and
Computer Science Faculty at the Jagiellonian University. The event will be
open to the public.
venue: ul. Łojasiewicza 6 (lect. room #0089), Kraków
date: 24.11.2009, 12:00am
The FreeBSD Foundation is
kindly sponsoring Semihalf to work on bringing the flattened device tree
(FDT) technology to the FreeBSD operating system. For more details see this
announcement.
25 Aug 2009
FreeBSD for Marvell SheevaPlug device.
The port developed by Semihalf is now available from the FreeBSD
SVN repository and it is going to be part of the upcoming 8.0-RELEASE.
Semihalf will be presenting a series of introductory lectures on
embedded systems, using commercial FreeBSD deployments as examples. The
lectures will be held at the University of Science and Technology (AGH)
in Kraków, and will be open to the public.
venue: AGH (Building D6), Kraków
dates: 26.02.2009, 26.03.2009, 23.04.2009, 21.05.2009
