Leveraging the power of Flash Seminar REGISTRATION - May 2008
Leveraging the power of Adobe Flash in embedded devices - SEMINAR
Presented by QNX Software Systems
Join QNX Software Systems for a technical seminar exploring the issues involved in integrating Adobe® Flash® technology in embedded devices.
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Doubletree Hotel Minneapolis-Park Place
Minneapolis, Minnesota
9:00am to 1:00pm
LUNCH sponsored by QNX Software Systems
It’s no deep secret that today’s applications require richer and more feature-laden user interfaces. Customers expect your products to be easy to use and understand and demand better functionality than ever before. Your developers are struggling to interpret and implement these richer interfaces and you are likely running into translations issues between your UI designers and your UI developers. A solution is indeed possible with the help of QNX Software Systems.
The adoption of Adobe® Flash™ technology in embedded devices is one of the most exciting developments of the past few years. What started as a need to play Flash games on cellphones has exploded into the desire to build entire user interfaces based solely on Flash and Flash-related technology. There are three main reasons for this:
- An immense pool of expertise (over a million graphic designers use Flash authoring tools)
- New Adobe Flash players for embedded devices that perform better and use less memory than desktop Flash players
- Cost effective embedded CPUs and graphics chips that can now support the frame rates needed for smooth Flash animation
Nevertheless, using Flash successfully in an embedded device is not without its challenges; an embedded Flash developer must address many issues related to consistent performance, reliability, high performance in small-footprint systems, and interaction between Flash and operating system services. This seminar will discuss the design choices around these four issues:
- Consistency — How do you make the Flash-based user interface perform consistently under all load conditions? (Most devices must respond quickly to user input at all times and this requires a level of priority control and realtime performance.) Moreover, how do you make your UI match what the designers intended? With Flash designers and developers can work in the same medium.
- Reliability — How can you keep the Flash-based user interface reliable? Can your system monitor for failure and properly recover? Will the Flash content reliably coexist with critical embedded processes?
- Performance — How can you tune for the highest performance and smallest footprint?
- Interactivity — How do you control the ways in which Flash content interacts with other content, including operating system services (audio output, microphone input, touchscreens, internet, disk services, etc), other embedded programs (web browsers, etc) and other flash content, whether proprietary or downloaded from the web.
Attendees will not only explore the issues involved in integrating Adobe Flash technology, they'll also learn about design tradeoffs and real-world solutions for implementing Flash successfully into embedded devices.
Attend and you could win our draw prize!
Agenda:
9:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.
Registration and light breakfast
9:30 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.
QNX Software Systems overview
9:45 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.
QNX Technology introduction: best in class RTOS, tools and middleware
10:45 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Coffee break
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Leveraging the power of Adobe Flash in embedded devices
12:00 p.m.
LUNCH is served!
12:15 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Demonstration illustrating QNX’s Flash-based UI controlling state-of-the-art multimedia devices.
Location:
Doubletree Hotel Minneapolis-Park Place
1500 Park Place Blvd.,
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA 55416
Tel: 1-952-542-8600
Fax: 1-952-542-8063
Please register below.