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2006 Conference Proceedings

If you were unable to attend Spring Processor Forum 2006, you still have an opportunity to benefit from In-Stat’s presentation materials.

2006 Fall Processor Forum Call For Proposals

How did ARM and Handshake Solutions make a processor that doesn't have a clock frequency?

How did MIPS Technologies make a processor that can execute instructions from five different programs in a single-issue pipeline?

How can Tensilica predict the power consumption of your next design -- a year before it's finished?

What's the murky secret behind Transmeta's LongRun2 power-saving technology?

How did a college professor from Romania design a video processor that has over a thousand processor cores? Who was the former White House chief of staff who helped start his company? And why did representatives of U.S. spy agencies eagerly buy the prototypes?

The dark side of performance is power consumption. Today's design-automation tools and fabrication processes allow developers to create chips with hundreds of millions of gates and multiple processor cores running at fantastic clock speeds. But it's all for nothing if the finished product is a black hole for battery power or a supernova of heat dissipation.

This year's theme for Spring Processor Forum 2006 is power-efficient design. Technical presentations from leading companies and innovative start-ups will show how the industry's best engineers are designing powerful single- and multicore processors without busting their power budgets. SPF 2006 will also tackle the power-efficiency problem at the system level, with presentations geared for system designers as well as chip developers. Get the big picture in addition to the crucial details.