MIPS Technologies has ported Google’s Android operating system to the MIPS processor architecture, aiming to expand the use of Android beyond phones, into digital TVs, mobile internet devices, digital picture frames and set-top boxes.
Linux firm Embedded Alley - Android is built on the Linux kernel - is offering a version of the Android Dalvik virtual machine optimised for the MIPS instruction set; is extending the Android bionic library, linker and other software infrastructure for MIPS; and is providing integration and testing board support, device drivers, CODECs and other middleware. Viosoft is also in, with its Arriba tools support single and multi-core MIPS.
