March 22, 2011 – Orlando, FL – At the International CTIA Wireless event, Smith Micro discussed the updates on their mobile connectivity management tools. This suite of products is designed for both major public wireless service providers (AT&T, Verizon, etc) as well as companies that have privatized wireless networks (UPS, Fedex, utilities, etc). Some of [...]
March 1, 2011 – San Jose, CA – At the Over The Top conference, 9×9 Corporation (www.9×9.tv) showed their new reduced control interface for viewing OTT content. The interface is targeted towards, mobile and game console viewing of web content where full keyboards and mouse access to do the selection of channels is not very [...]
March 1, 2011 – San Jose, CA – BTI Systems presented a solution for the bandwidth difficulties with increasing on-demand OTT content that is on the standard cable distribution lines. Their solution is to use a content aware, local network cache for the on-demand data. They have a created a caching appliance that uses a [...]
March 16, 2011, ISQED, Santa Clara, CA– the second lunchtime talk at this year’s ISQED focused on custom physical design flows and tools. First, Richard Morse from SpringSoft described the trends and challenges in the latest generation of processes. Mobile driven consumer electronics, like cell phones, have a large amount of analog and RF circuitry [...]
March 16, 2011, IEDEC, Santa Clara, CA—RK Cho, professor at the Chungbuk National University, Korea described the state of IC design education in Korea. Their goal is to drive students towards design companies, not just Samsung, and grow the electronics industry. The education programs are focused on SoC design, and is supported by the national [...]
March 16, 2011, IEDEC, Santa Clara, CA—Thomas Zimmerman, member of research staff and master inventor at IBM talked about the efforts to open the pipeline of students at the lower grades to consider college and engineering. His talk, “Building electronic circuits in the classroom; accessible, engaging, and educational” looked at a couple of local programs [...]
March 16, 2011, IEDEC, Santa Clara, CA—Rich Goldman, vp at Synopsys described the challenges of staffing up remote facilities with productive graduates. He also talked about the interventions that Synopsys and the government of Armenia make to the educational systems to address the challenges. One aspect of their efforts is to update the curriculum every [...]
March 2, 2011 Game Developers’ Conference, San Francisco–One interesting piece of hardware being shown at the show was an EEG (electroencephalograph) interface. I talked with Tansy Brook from NeuroSky about their products, a consumer-level sensor that approaches 96 percent of clinical equipment accuracy and resolution at a small fraction of the cost. The approach NeuroSky [...]
March 3, 2011 – Game Developers Conference, San Francisco – The Khronos Group released the free COLLADA 1.4 Conformance Test Suite. COLLADA is an open, XML-based standard that enables assets to be freely interchanged between 3D authoring applications. The COLLADA test suite is a set of over 500 tests and a scripted framework that exercises [...]
3rd March, 2011 – Game Developers Conference, San Francisco – The Khronos Group released the final WebGL 1.0 specification for hardware-accelerated 3D graphics in HTML5 Web browsers without the need for plug-ins. WebGL defines a JavaScript binding to OpenGL ES 2.0 to allow 3D graphics within a browser on any platform supporting the industry-standard OpenGL [...]
