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Last week I received my new toy from GlooLabs, a HomePod. This is a cool little device, featuring IBM's J9 Java VM, running on top a small Linux distribution.
Distributed by MacSense, the HomePod is a digital stereo component, i.e. allowing you to play MP3 files stored on a Mac or PC on audio devices located anywhere in your home
via an existing wired or wireless network.
The HomePod runs GLOO, a network media software platform designed to integrate into consumer hardware devices that distribute digital media around a wireless or wired network.
GLOO is 100% Java and enables to share media in a peer-to-peer fashion. For example, GLOO allows you to access music from multiple computers and play it on your existing home stereo system.
HomePod - Inside: Processor
The Toshiba TX49 series is a 64-bit MIPS R4000A-based RISC processor family. A typical TX49xx has a 64-bit core and a 32-bit SRAM I/O interface. In addition, all microprocessors in the TX49 family (with the exception of the TX4955) access SRAM through the External BUS Controller (EBUSC), which supports data-bus widths of 8 bits, 16 bits and 32 bits. (The EBUSC is used for accessing ROM, SRAM memory, and I/O peripherals.) The examples that follow show a straightforward EBUSC-to-SRAM I/F. The TX4926 supports Page mode for SRAM accesses.
Toshiba TX4926 200MHz CPU
16MB Flash RAM
32MB SDRAM
124x64 pixel graphical backlit blue LCD display
Jog-shuttle rotating dial
802.11b 11Mbps mini-PCI Card with external antenna
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