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Conference Highlights

In-Stat forums are a rare combination of breaking news, insightful analysis, and non-stop networking. FPF draws the audience you want to reach most—the industry’s best.

  • Hear the first public disclosures of new microprocessors, DSPs, and related embedded technologies, presented by their chief architects.
  • Includes two full-day seminars on todays hottest topics led by Microprocessor Report’s award-winning analysts.
  • Leading organizations to present on PC processors, server processors, low-power embedded processors, consumer embedded, imaging DSPs, and on the challenges of advanced semiconductor design.



Monday - October 24th

Implementing Low Power SoC Configurations
 Presented by Max Baron, Principal Analyst, In-Stat

Max Baron's seminar will explain how systems-on-chip vendors use architecture, microarchitecture, software, and power management to obtain the high performance required for the mobile markets while achieving the best combination of power consumption, level of integration, and flexibility.

Following a brief tutorial including the latest strategies used in design for low power, and the trends envisioned for 90nm processes and below, the seminar will analyze and compare more than 25 core, chip and SoC products including latest introductions aimed at cellular telephones, digital cameras, PDAs and other power-aware systems.

 

Thursday - October 27th

A Briefing on DSP Technology presented by the leaders
 Moderated by Max Baron, Principal Analyst, In-Stat

Evaluating a DSP's capabilities requires more background in the sciences than system designers needed before. The new breed of ISAs combining DSP and microcontrollers (DSP/MCU) requires, on top of everything, an understanding of the way the system will support the signal-processing functions and the way these, in their turn, will occur without interfering with the system's real-time response.

Selecting a DSP must be done in the context of the system and the applications intended for it. Systems turn out to be heavily differentiated from one another for commercial reasons. Excellent in quality as they may be, existing benchmarks can't simulate the system an OEM is about to design, and the fact that most benchmarking code is held confidentially by the owners makes it near impossible to draw intelligent conclusions from its dynamic execution.

The purpose of this seminar is to help the attendees deal with reality of today's DSP ecosystem. The most recent key information on DSP technology will be presented straight from the source, the technical experts of Analog Devices, CEVA, Starcore, and Texas Instruments and moderated (and sometimes refereed) by Max Baron, Microprocessor Report's authority on DSP's.