"I'm watch"- An Android Based Smartwatch features

Friday, October 21, 2011

"I'm watch"- An Android Based Smartwatch features

CDNLive! India brings together Cadence technology users, developers, and industry experts to network, share best practices on critical design and verification issues, and discover new techniques for realizing advanced silicon, SoCs, and systems. This year's program featured 40 in-depth technical presentations over five parallel tracks by companies such as
AMD, Ciena, CircuitSutra Technologies, Cisco, ECAD Technologies, Freescale Semiconductor, HCL Technologies, Lantiq, LSI, National Semiconductor, NVIDIA, Open-Silicon Research, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments, Wipro and Xilinx.

CDNLive! India 2011 featured a presentation by Dr. Charlie Huang, SVP of Worldwide Field Operations, and Cadence. Charlie Huang announced that an application named, "I am Watch" will be soon released at the end of October. The watch has social networking, text messaging and many other features in it.

I'm watch is a SmartWatch that can be used like a wrist watch. It is an Android based device and there are reports it is compatible with iOS too. The production is done by an Italian company which is also offering a pre order option. The product has two versions; I'm jewel, a luxury one made out of titanium gold and diamonds. The price is ranged from $840-$16,833. The normal colored edition is priced at $349.

The Italian based company Milan-based Blue Sky s.r.l will be wrist watch makers. It will be allowed to connect with iPhone 4 and Android Smartphone via Bluetooth. Users can make calls, receive calls, text message and emails can also be accessed. Social networking sites like Facebook, twitter, Foursquare's photo gallery and notifications will be visible. It includes 1.54'' 240x240 pixel color TFT display, 4GB of built-in storage, 64MB of RAM, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR support and Li-Po 600 mAh battery.

The Cadence silicon realization solutions are to make applications that absorb less power A/D mixed signal and many others. Speaking about the semiconductor firm's revenue, Charlie said that about $3000 billion will be the revenue of the semiconductor firms and electronics industry will bring out a turnover of $400 billion by the year 2015.

ARM and Cadence design systems announced the tape out of the industry's first 20nm design based on ARM Cortex-A15 MPCore processor. The test chip targeting TSMC's 20nm process was jointly developed by engineers from ARM, Cadence and TSMC using a Cadence RTL-to-signoff flow. This announcement is the result of 18 month collaboration between ARM and Cadence on optimized design flows for the cortex A-15 processor.