Although the news about modular smartphone Ara, which leads the development of advanced technology division of Google, do not appear often, the device gradually moves to its opening, scheduled for next year. As writes Paul Eremenko, who heads the project, last week the company Toshiba has transferred into the production circuit (ASIC) switches and bridges UniPro – a special interface used for communication modules smartphone Ara. In the first prototype, Spiral 1, the developers used in the FPGA implementation UniPro in Spiral 2 should appear above mentioned ASIC.
In addition, in connection with the release of Spiral 2 will be updated set of software developer MDK, and released new hardware. At the end of this year is scheduled the second conference of developers.
It is also involved in the project Ara company Rockchip, which will be developed by the system on chip with congenital interface support UniPro. The smartphone it can be used without an additional “binding”. Rockchip processors appear in the prior art Spiral 2, which should be presented in early 2015.
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