NoTA Open Architecture Initiative
NoTA (Network on Terminal Architecture) Open Architecture Initiative develops and promotes novel modular mobile and embedded device architecture concept for both industrial and open communities.
In TRONSHOW2009, two research institutes and eight leading companies (*) from Finland and Japan jointly introduce NoTA core technology with multiple demos and prototypes including productisable NoTA sub-systems, T-Kernel based NoTA interconnect open source implementation and the NoTA open community.
NoTA is a modular, service-based and interconnect-centric system architecture for mobile and embedded devices following the same paradigm as in Web Services. The core of the solution is the NoTA Device Interconnect Protocol (DIP). DIP is a transport network agnostic light weight and performance optimized communication protocol that can be implemented for various physical interfaces ranging from MIPI high speed serial interfaces to wireless transports like Bluetooth.
NoTA core technology, consisting of the interconnect protocol stack DIP and the core system services, is now open and downloadable to all interested parties from www.notaworld.org. In addition to open source license (GPL2) a royalty-free commercial license is available. The goal is to enable and boost open innovations around the open device architecture and establish co-operation towards the world’s most significant open source communities such as T-Engine Forum.
Availability of NoTA / DIP reference implementations for leading operating systems is very important success factor towards realizing the open device architecture ecosystem. T-Kernel - being the most used embedded operating system in the World - is an ideal target platform for NoTA / DIP implementation. NoTA Community introduces itself as well as the technology at the notaworld.org -booth and during the NoTA technical seminar.
At notaworld.org -booth you can experience NoTA technology demonstrations including T-Kernel based NoTA sub-systems as well as comprehensive NoTA devices / systems realizing interesting end-user applications. uID system consisting of ucode reader sub-system is one such example.
NoTA technical seminar consists of:
- NoTA core technology tutorial
- ucode / uID applications enabled by NoTA on T-Kernel
- NoTA activities by industry leading companies
- NoTA open community and ecosystem
- Smart Spaces through inter-device NoTA
NoTA concept and the first implementations were results of Nokia Research Center activities started in 2003. The objective of the work was to develop mobile device architecture concept that could provide means to boost up R&D efficiency and enable use of state-of-the-art technologies and innovations in company products in fast-time-to-market manner. Industry horizontalization and digital convergence were seen as the main drivers behind the need.
Today there exist several productizable NoTA sub-systems from different IC companies. The first NoTA based products are expected to hit the markets in 2009 – 2010 timeframe.
The first NoTA conference organized by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland was held in Helsinki, Finland in June 2008. Close to one hundred world leading companies were present witnessing the kick-off of NoTA Community. The second NoTA Conference is planned to take place in September 2009.
(*)†VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland / Nokia / YRP Ubiquitous Networking Laboratory / Ubiquitous Computing Technology Corporation / Central Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd. / Renesas Technology Corp. / Sanyo Semiconductor Co.,Ltd. / TOSHIBA CORPORATION / Taiyo Yuden Co.,Ltd. / Kanrikogaku Kenkyusho, Ltd. / Personal Media Corp.
