Monday, May 21st 8:30 am - 5:00 pm

Power-Efficient Performance for Multimedia Applications

There is no system or chip being designed today that hasn't been influenced by the accumulated billions of cell phone units and by the hundreds of millions of digital cameras, notebook computers and MP3 players--all shipped during the past few years. Their designers must employ innovative methods to save battery power, yet deliver increasing performance to meet the escalating demands of high quality multimedia. At the other end of the spectrum, where desktops and servers can be found, saving power has taken an additional significance, that of reducing die operating temperature.

Max Baron’s seminar is built on the successful template of our recent tutorial event presented in October 2006. The day-long agenda on Monday May 21st will showcase educational presentations selected from different technical disciplines.

The seminar will open with a status update by chairperson Max Baron In-Stat. The tutorial section will include eleven presentations from different experts. Three presentations will address the influence of new semiconductor processes and integration levels on design decisions affecting architecture and circuits. Two presentations will showcase examples of new architectural configurations. Efficiency measurements will be the topic of one of the presentations. We start at this seminar to introduce overviews of software aspects for chip and system designers. This is the software we all know to be so important to the efficient utilization of multiple cores and massively parallel engines. Four presentations will provide tutorial material on software tool status, applications, and system software to complete the knowledge required for understanding the trends in architecture and design. Finally, to understand the rapid introduction of breakthroughs in process technology and what can be expected long term, a presentation will offer a brief simple overview of semiconductor physics.

7:30 am Continental Breakfast

8:30 am Welcome and Intro

Bands and Band Engineering
presented by Robert J. Mears, MEARS Technologies

Power Optimizations for Smart Phones
presented by Prem Sakarda, Marvell

DSP Solutions For High Quality Video Systems
presented by Todd Hiers, Texas Instruments

Mistletoe RDX Processor
presented by Jonathan Sweedler, Mistletoe Technologies

Embedded Software for Multicore Processors
presented by Mike Anderson, PTR Group

Reducing Power and Energy Consumption
presented by Steve Leibson, Tensilica

Sequential Optimizations for Low Power Design
presented by Anmol Mathur, Calypto

Designing Highly-Integrated Base Station Transceiver SoCs
presented by Vijay Sundararajan, Texas Instruments

Multi-Core SoC Software Debugging and Performance Optimization with MCDS IP Based Solution
presented by Christian Lipsky, IPextreme

Power Management Techniques and Strategies for Linux
presented by Mike Anderson, PTR Group

Note: Agenda subject to change.