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driving software innovation

ST-Ericsson-based Snowball developer
board and Igloo community 

The Igloo open source community and the Snowball developer board, launched during Mobile World Congress 2011, will accelerate the development of system and software innovations that allow software developers to fully harness the capabilities of the most advanced smartphone and tablet platforms available. The low-cost, feature-rich developer board based on the Nova™ A9500 application processor and the Igloo developer community will facilitate and drive software innovation for Android, Ubuntu and Linaro embedded devices based on ST-Ericsson’s platforms.

SNOWBALL DEVELOPER BOARD 

The Snowball developer board is a small-sized, low cost, powerful, feature-rich development tool, which enables fast and easy development of mobile applications. It combines ST-Ericsson’s Nova A9500 dual-core application processor with innovative MEMS (3D gyroscope, accelerometer, magnetometer and a barometer), GPS, Wifi and Bluetooth features, in small form factor battery-operated device. With support for 3D graphics, HD video and HDMI output, the Snowball puts cutting-edge mobile technologies within reach of a broad community of professional developers and hobbyists.

Calao Systems designed the board, while Linaro developed the board’s low-level software, which is optimized for the Nova A9500’s ARM dual Cortex A9™-based architecture.

igloo - A POWERFUL, OPEN COMMUNITY FOR MOBILE INNOVATION

At the heart of the Igloo community will be the website, where developers can gather, and exchange information and ideas, or even solve problems collectively. Information on getting started, user guides, releases etc. will be available here as well as recommendations for hardware interfaces, peripherals and complete software packages that are already aligned with open source requirements and standards. 

ST-Ericsson has selected open source specialist Movial to develop, support and run the Igloo community.