SANTA CLARA, Calif.,
March 2, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Marvell
(NASDAQ: MRVL)—a worldwide leader in providing complete silicon
solutions from mobile communications to storage, Internet of Things
(IoT), cloud infrastructure, digital entertainment and in-home
content delivery and Kinoma® software enabling the
"Smart Life and Smart Lifestyle"—today announced it has open
sourced the KinomaJS application framework which is uniquely
designed to build the core applications of embedded devices using
JavaScript. Over a decade of research and development has been
invested in creating KinomaJS. Field-tested and proven by major
consumer electronics brands, KinomaJS has long been a "secret
ingredient" built into millions of world-class products. Now it is
open to the world.
Customers of Marvell hardware platforms now benefit from the
flexibility and stability that open source offers when using
KinomaJS. Marvell continues to stand behind KinomaJS, offering
support to customers in their design, development, deployment, and
maintenance of the platform, as it always has, with its proprietary
software solutions.
KinomaJS
IoT products are unlike previous generations
of consumer electronics products because they are always
connected—to services in the cloud, to each another, and to mobile
devices. Deployment over a variety of communication technologies,
portability to diverse operating systems, and use across multiple
network protocols requires a more nimble way of building embedded
applications. Building on the JavaScript programming language,
KinomaJS brings to embedded application development the same
benefits that have propelled web page and server development for
years. By adopting JavaScript as its core language, KinomaJS
natively communicates in JSON, the preferred data interchange
format of today's Internet. Through its independent JavaScript
implementation, the XS virtual machine, KinomaJS has a light memory
footprint and CPU requirements compared to JavaScript
implementations designed for use in web browsers, and therefore
scales down to significantly more cost-effective hardware.
Open source benefits Marvell's customers
Using
KinomaJS, Marvell's customers can create elegant, high-performance
products across a wide variety of hardware platforms, using
relatively little code that's easier to test, maintain, and evolve.
An open source solution provides customers the flexibility to
customize and adapt software across their product ecosystems at a
reduced engineering cost because skills and code can be reused.
Customers can adopt KinomaJS with confidence, knowing the stability
that open source brings to their long-term software
investments.
"Marvell is pleased to offer the dynamic KinomaJS application
framework through open source. We are doing this to create new
opportunities for our customers, from Fortune 50 companies to the
innovators creating the next wave of connected devices including
smart surfaces and wearables. We hope that sharing our knowledge,
experience, and code will help grow the overall Internet of Things
industry more quickly," said Weili
Dai, President and Co-Founder of Marvell. "As we look ahead
to the next 20 years of Marvell excellence, we see the company
increasingly providing our esteemed customers end-to-end solutions
that combine our elegant KinomaJS software with our
industry-leading hardware. We are excited to take this major
step."
Availability
KinomaJS source code is available for
immediate download from https://github.com/kinoma. The project
includes:
- JavaScript 5th Edition virtual machine (XS)
- Kinoma Porting Layer (KPL)
- Core native modules (Fsk)
- Kinoma Platform Runtime (KPR) application framework
- Networking modules for http/https, WebSockets, SSDP,
and Zeroconf/mDNS
- Independent JavaScript implementation of TLS/SSL
- Graphics rendering in pure software and OpenGL accelerated
- Digital media playback extensions
The KinomaJS source code is provided under the Apache License,
Version 2.0, the same open source license used by many popular open
source projects including Android.
KinomaJS includes support for Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, Android,
and iOS. Support for additional platforms can be integrated through
KPL.
Media Resources
Screenshots, icons and other related
media are available for download: kinoma.com/media
About Kinoma
The Kinoma group creates consumer
electronics products, and helps others to rapidly prototype and
create products themselves. The tightly integrated design and
engineering team resides at global semiconductor leader Marvell.
Marvell acquired Kinoma in 2010 for the team's proven heritage in
software architected for high performance on everything from phones
and tablets, to the "Internet of Things" (IoT). For more
information, visit kinoma.com.
About Marvell
Marvell (NASDAQ: MRVL) is a global
leader in providing complete silicon solutions and Kinoma software
enabling the "Smart Life and Smart Lifestyle." From mobile
communications to storage, Internet of Things (IoT), cloud
infrastructure, digital entertainment and in-home content delivery,
Marvell's diverse product portfolio aligns complete platform
designs with industry-leading performance, security, reliability
and efficiency. At the core of the world's most powerful consumer,
network and enterprise systems, Marvell empowers partners and their
customers to always stand at the forefront of innovation,
performance and mass appeal. By providing people around the world
with mobility and ease of access to services adding value to their
social, private and work lives, Marvell is committed to enhancing
the human experience.
As used in this release, the term "Marvell" refers to Marvell
Technology Group Ltd. and its subsidiaries. For more information,
please visit www.Marvell.com.
Marvell, Kinoma, and the M logo are registered trademarks of
Marvell and/or its affiliates. Other names and brands may be
claimed as the property of others.
For Further Information Contact:
Marvell Media Relations
Rachel Bennett
Kinoma Marketing & Communications Director
Tel: (415) 608-1002
rachelb@marvell.com
Sue Kim
Director, Corporate Communications & PR
Tel: (408) 222-1942
suekim@marvell.com
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