Symbian on ARM
Symbian is the operating system for mobile handsets that defined the smartphone. Terminal manufacturers have brought dozens of Symbian OS devices to the market over the last 10+ years and hundreds of millions of instances of the OS running are running on phones in people's pockets today.
Symbian OS and its UI frameworks have been exclusively deployed on the ARM® architecture since their inception. Symbian and ARM have a long history of co-innovation that has increased the performance and feature set of Symbian mobile handsets instigating many of the benefits that mobile phone users take for granted today.
Symbian OS and its UI frameworks have been exclusively deployed on the ARM® architecture since their inception. Symbian and ARM have a long history of co-innovation that has increased the performance and feature set of Symbian mobile handsets instigating many of the benefits that mobile phone users take for granted today.
The Symbian Foundation releases complement the following ARM technologies
Symbian^2
- RVDS2.2 build for ARMv5 ISA
- Texas Instruments OMAP3 low cost Beagle Board Reference platform including ARM Cortex-A8
Additional Features in Symbian^3
- RVDS4.0 build for ARMv7 ISA
- SMP Safe Kernel and Platform on ARMv7 SMP Platform
- Mali (OpenGL ES 2.0) support in new graphics architecture
Application Processors
Multimedia
Tools
For Phone Development
For Application Development
The ARM Compiler is the industry standard for the ARM architecture and has been continually developed for more than 20 years. RVDS4.0 supports all current ARM architectures and processors including the Thumb-2 instruction set and ARM Architecture v7.
To support the work of the Symbian Foundation ARM supplies a version of RealView Develoment Suite free for Symbian Platform application development purposes.
Information
Nokia maintains a number of tools and SDKs for Symbian development:
- Forum Nokia maintains to a number of tools, SDK and code examples for Symbian developers.
- Nokia's Qt site maintains an IDE, tools, code examples and SDKs for Symbian and a number of other OS platforms.
Symbian Foundation
The Symbian Foundation is transitioning to a licensing organization. Further information is available at the Symbian Foundation blog.
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