Multicore enablement panel at Power Architecture Developer Conference attracts industry's top CTOs
(Business News, 24 Sep 2007 )
Power.org, the open collaborative organization that enables, develops, and promotes Power Architecture technology, has announced that the industry's leading experts will unite to debate critical issues around "Multicore Enablement" as part of a panel presentation during the Power Architecture Developer Conference (www.power.org/devcon/07), Tuesday, September 25th, at the Austin Convention Center in Austin, Texas.
Panelists Jim Ready, Founder and Chief Technology Officer at MontaVista; David Kleidermacher, Chief Technology Officer at Green Hills Software; Michel Genard, Vice President Marketing at Virtutech; and Tomas Evensen, Chief Technology Officer at Wind River Systems, will share diverse perspectives on development virtualization, debugging, partitioning, and software simulation.
"It's rare to see industry veterans of this caliber assembled on a single panel," said Eric Heikkila, Director, Embedded Hardware and Systems, at Venture Development Corporation. "These experts will discuss a critical issue for the evolution of the electronics industry, which is how to close the growing gap between Multicore processors, which are maturing, and the supporting software, which is still comparably nascent. If any group can provide reliable insight on how to address Multicore software challenges, it's the senior executives on this panel."
The panel, moderated by Mr. Heikkila, will include a discussion of factors impeding the broader use of Multicore processors in embedded systems, including the need for technology standards, SMP scaling beyond six cores, and C/C++ coding.
"It is increasingly clear that Multicore technology will gain mainstream adoption only as enablement technology catches up to hardware advances," said Fawzi Behmann, Chair for the Marketing Committee of Power.org and Director of Strategic Marketing, Networking & Computing Systems at Freescale. "This distinguished panel of experts will present and debate critical perspectives and information to design engineers grappling with tough technology decisions."
The Power Architecture Developer Conference was created to provide technical education and industry interaction across a wide range of Power Architecture interests and applications. The technical program will include 70+ hours of presentations on hardware and software virtualization; Power Architecture technology in compute-intensive solutions, digital media applications, and Multicore solutions; embedded perspectives; and software development for the Power Architecture platform. For a complete schedule of panels and presentations, visit http://www.power.org/devcon/07/schedule/.
