Presentation Abstracts

Keynote speech by Mr Janakiraman, MindTree Consulting - Embedded Devices Go Ubiquitous

Topic Abstract:
The new millennium is seeing a revolution in embedded systems with every conceivable device becoming intelligent, networked and mobile.

The decade of 1980’s saw the impact of Moor’s law with number of transistor in a silicon die doubling every 18 months and microprocessors becoming powerful and lower in cost leading to affordable PCs that occupied every desk in enterprises.

The decade of 1990’s led to the revolution in networking and internet making the world well connected and access to information easier even at home.

The decade beginning 2000 belongs to wireless and mobility with the advent of 3G and short-range wireless technologies, making computing and communication becoming handheld and mobile. The hunger for access to content like information, music, video and games are leading to computing and connectivity becoming almost free and content becoming the king.

Next decade will belong to revolution in Embedded Systems.

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Track 2 by Mr. Neeraj Varma, Country Manager, Xilinx India - Faster and More Flexible Embedded Processing Systems

Topic Abstract:
Ever-changing industry standards dictate that tomorrow’s embedded system designs accommodate a new level of customization, while high performance demands challenge traditional processing designs. Developers don’t want to be restricted by an overly customized design, and yet they can’t just keep toggling the system clock at ever-increasing speeds to improve performance. There has to be a better way to create faster and more flexible embedded processing systems.

Platform FPGAs are programmable SOCs that support a multitude of sophisticated designs, and include on-board memory, DSP capability, embedded processing, and hardware accelerated co-processing. The re-programmability and field upgradeability of these new devices mean that you can fix bugs, enhance features, optimize performance, and add emerging industry standard support throughout product life cycles and even after deployment in the field.

Mr. Neeraj Varma will present how combining programmable platform FPGA devices with intelligent tools can provide higher-performance embedded processing solutions for real-time developers. He will also describe how the high-performance nature of parallel FPGA hardware resources and easy-to-use programmable processing technologies can be used in the next generation of embedded system designs.

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Track 2 by Mr Jiwei Du, Agilent Technologies - Get an insight of the embedded circuitry design

Topic Abstract:
In embedded circuit design, engineers have to deal with internal nodes of an FPGA as well as with its communication with its communication with external buses or interfaces like I 2C, SPI, PCI, CPCI etc. It is relatively easy to check on the signal quality which can be accessed by the test instruments. However, it is very difficult to get an insight into the signal behavior inside an FPGA, or synchronize the internal protocol or timing with the waveform or the external buses / interfaces.

Jiwei Du will discuss the challenges of getting insight of design and details of protocol synchronization and decode. It will also show how to save time debugging the internal node of the FPGA and how to locate real problem from the vast array of captured signals. If time permits, a demonstration will be conducted to show efficient debugging.

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Track 3 by Ms Shelley Gretlein, National Instruments - The Next Level for Electronic System Design

Topic Abstract:
Today, embedded computer design is analogous to the PC – the embedded market is extremely fragmented in its offering of many different hardware and software architectures. Some embedded systems are designed with very sophisticated tools involving modeling and simulation down to the transistor level while others are designed with minimal tools, perhaps only a printed circuit board lay out tool. The approach to building PC systems today suggests an alternative. Just like the PC market was in 1981, embedded computer design is primed for a revolution…

Ms Shelley Gretlein will present a new methodology for designing embedded systems. One in which a standardized platform approach with a combination of the standardized hardware and software could change the way embedded systems are designed and built – and deliver a richer environment for innovation and significantly reduced development costs.

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Track 4 by Altera – C to FPGA Design Flow: Accelerating Embedded System Designs

Topic Abstract:
This presentation discusses topics including the generation of custom embedded systems, how to accelerate system performance and C-based design initiative.

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Track 5 by Tektronix – Debugging and Validation of Embedded Systems

Topic Abstract:
Embedded system engineers are constantly facing elusive hardware and software problems that threaten project schedules. Specially, with ever shrinking design cycles. The talk will discuss various debug challenges throughout the development cycle and share strategies and techniques to uncover them early. Unlike routine sales-oriented presentations, this talk will focus on challenges, techniques, methods and tools.

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Topic Abstract:
Many current processor-based platforms are inadequate to satisfy the demands of the increasing complexity and performance constraints of embedded systems. Poseidon’s Triton tools suite enables system designer to do complete system analysis (h/w as well as s/w), optimize the system to get better performance and generate application specific hardware accelerator for the bottle-neck 'C' code. Thus Triton tools enable system designers to increase performance of the system, reduce system design cycle and design risk drastically.

With the platform based designs becoming more and more popular, Poseidon's Triton tools become essential to design efficient systems with enhanced performance and reduced design cycle. With the use of Poseidon’s tools flow, system designers achieve dramatic performance improvements at lower power dissipation for processor-based platforms. The tools are optimized for DSP, audio, video, VoIP, imaging, wireless, storage, and security devices.

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Seminar topics may be changed without notice, subject to technological developments or industry needs.