Intel polishes first Flash development kit for mobiles

Intel has unveiled its first Flash Software Developer Kit (SDK) for mobiles, promising that the Flash Data Integrator 6.0 (FDI) will help developers boost performance of advanced applications for multimedia smartphones.

The FDI royalty-free platform is designed to help designers integrate and develop mobile phone applications including Java applets, Bluetooth file transfers, voice recognition tags, MP3, pictures and video files to the hardware.

Intel said the Posix-compliant offering has advanced power-loss recovery for database applications, the ability to group multiple operations into a single call to ensure data integrity for enterprise applications, and advanced stacked memory device support to manage code or data across multiple devices in a variety of configurations.

The SDK includes tools, an architecture reference manual and reference code samples. It has been tested on a range of Intel Flash products, including StrataFlash memory and Wireless Flash memory, and will support next-generation releases of these products.

"Intel is working to provide its customers and development community [with] much more than great hardware," said Peter Van Deventer, marketing director of Intel's Flash products group.

"The added software elements we deliver bring tremendous value to phone designers to make the most of the applications their customers want."

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