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July 7, 2009 at 6:35 am · Filed under Uncategorized and tagged: Daming Palance Foundation, xi'an
XI’AN: The Daming Palace Foundation in Shaanxi’s provincial capital has recruited five volunteers from the Shaanxi provincial history museum, Xi’an cultural relic protection and restoration center and Xi’an archaeological institute.
They are excellent experts in the repair of stone, pottery, tri-colored relics, ancient constructions, tablets, calligraphy works, paintings and metal. Some of them have worked in their fields for 30 years.
After training, two of the five experts will go to the United States to repair two stone horse sculpture reliefs dating back to the Tang Dynasty (AD618-907), said Guan Zhaoyi, deputy secretary-general of the foundation.
It is in response to a request from the University of Pennsylvania, where they are on display, Guan added.
Six horse reliefs once lined the corridor of the Tang emperor Li Shimin’s mausoleum. Li owed much of his military success to six horses he rode into combat, so he ordered reliefs of the animals to be carved and placed in his tomb to accompany him in the afterlife.
The images, which feature the horses in different poses, are true-to-life specimens of Tang-era sculpture.
Smugglers stole the reliefs in 1918 but were stopped by locals in Tongguan, Shaanxi. However, the thieves still managed to get two of the artworks to the US, while the other four ended up in Xi’an’s Forest of Steles Museum.
As the two reliefs were broken into several pieces during transport, the University of Pennsylvania Museum had asked the foundation to send two experts to work with their American counterparts to restore them.
Lots of volunteers signed up from April 16 to May 16 as it will be the first time China sends experts abroad to repair Chinese relics.
A panel consisting of top-notched experts in relics, relic protection and repair first chose seven volunteers after reviewing their resume early last time and then chose the five after interviews, said the foundation’s deputy secretary-general Sun Fuxi.
Sun said the US university had earmarked $70,000 for the restoration, which is expected to take a month.
“We hope the two horse reliefs will be perfectly repaired and can be exhibited overseas in the future,” Guan said.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2009-07/06/content_8381366.htm
July 4, 2009 at 6:15 am · Filed under Uncategorized and tagged: Android Devices, Embedded linux solutions, Embedded System, MIPS Technologies, xi'an software park
San Jose, California and Taipei, Taiwan, June 1, 2009 – Embedded Alley, a leading provider of embedded Linux® solutions, today announced shipment of the Embedded Alley Development System for Android-based Devices. The Development System enables development of Android-based intelligent devices built on MIPS Technologies’ processors, targeting applications in domains beyond mobile handsets. Delivery of the Embedded Alley Development System enables both systems and applications developers to extend the reach of Android to encompass multimedia, Mobile Internet Devices, digital video and home entertainment, automotive, medical, networking, instrumentation and industrial control.
Embedded Alley is working closely with open source community maintainers, MIPS Technologies and the MIPS® partner ecosystem. The company sustains strong participation in key open source projects (including Open Embedded, ALSA and Linux kernel development) to ensure upstream integration of Android support in key project code. Equally, Embedded Alley cultivates and maintains strategic partnerships for thoroughgoing commercial support of Android device and application development. “We look to Embedded Alley as both an ecosystem partner and as an ambassador to key open source projects,” commented Art Swift, MIPS Technologies vice president of marketing. “With deep experience in embedded Linux, the MIPS architecture and multiple application domains, they will help enable OEMs to leverage the powerful combination of Android and MIPS.”
“The opportunities presented by Android span the gamut of intelligent devices types and markets,” noted Matthew Locke, Embedded Alley COO. “To meet the visible and growing demand for Android enablement in new designs, Embedded Alley has made significant investment in creating and delivering our Development System.” These investments include:
- Porting the Dalvik virtual machine underlying Android to the MIPS architecture, including architecture and build support and comprehensive optimization for Dalvik acceleration on MIPS cores
- Extending Android bionic library, linker and other Android infrastructure to the MIPS architecture
- Providing an Android-compliant Linux kernel and configuration tools for the RMI Au1250 SoC and MIPS processors
- Integrating and testing board support and industry-specific device drivers, CODECs and other middleware
- Supporting the MIPS architecture in the Android Software Development Kit (SDK) and Android targets in the Embedded Alley customizable Development System
Embedded Alley Development System Features
Supporting Android for MIPS-BasedTM devices entails a range of capabilities and investments above and beyond supplying a stock Linux kernel. The Embedded Alley Development System for Android-based Devices features:
- Support for cross development of system-level and application software for MIPS-based devices hosting the Android platform
- Up-to-date MIPS production kernels (2.6.28) for MIPS CPU cores, run-time libraries and other core components for Android
- Optimized Dalvik Virtual Machine and JNI (Java Native Interface)
- Android Application Framework and SDK (Eclipse Plug-in)
- Android Device Emulator for Eclipse
Availability
The Embedded Alley Development System for Android-based Devices is available immediately and includes support for select MIPS architecture boards from RMI and other MIPS licensees. RMI will be demonstrating Embedded Alley support for Android on the Alchemy Processor family at CompuTEX in Taipei, Taiwan on June 2-6, 2009. Contact Embedded Alley for more information athttp://www.embeddedalley.com or via email at info@embeddedalley.com.
