If you own an Android device, then you’ll already know that if you shut down your phone, it can take a little while to fully boot up, often a few minutes. It seems Japanese tech company Ubiquitous Corp. clearly share our pain, as they recently announced the launch of their QuickBoot technology, which can boot Linux or Android in around 1 second. QuickBoot is aimed at smartphones, netbooks, in-car computers, tablets and the like and supports Cortex-A, ARM9 and ARM11 processors and Ubiquitous Corp hope to add other CPU architectures to that list in the future.
The tech is going to be showcased at the ARM Connected Community booth at ESC Silicon Valley, April 26-29, 2010. After that point it will presumably be offered to OEMs. It’ll be interesting to see which manufacturers decide to use QuickBoot in their devices.
Ubiquitous QuickBoot enables Android to be launched and restored to application execution state just in one second, the world’s fastest time. In recent years, the use of the Android and Linux for digital home electronics and mobile devices is on the rise as features become ever more complex. The time it takes for such devices to cold boot, however, can take more than a minute; this is something that manufacturer are working on to improve.Ubiquitous QuickBoot is an independently developed solution based on a cutting edge technology that addresses such issues dramatically.
By preferentially restoring memory area necessary for booting system from nonvolatile storage to the RAM, the boot time has become overwhelmingly quick compared to other methods. In the implementation example of Android (*1), it has taken only one second (*2) to restore from the moment power is turned on to application execution state. This is the fastest in the world (*3) for booting Android. It should also be noted that instant booting is not dependent on the amount of memory being used by the application as the remaining memory areas are read sequentially only after booting thereby barely affecting user operations.
By utilizing this solution, manufacturers can develop digital home electronics and mobile devices with systems that can be instantly launched from near-zero standby power without compromising user operability.
{via Linux for Devices}