This week the Multicore Expo and conference holds forth as a subset of the Embedded Systems Conference in the San Jose McEnery Convention Center. Some of the topics include: multiprocessor tactics and strategies, multimedia and embedded graphics, programming and debug, software tools and libraries, EDA and ESL technologies, APIs for multicore communications and resource management,…
By Tets Maniwa April 13, 2010—Las Vegas—in the ongoing series of iHollywood Forum events, a panel comprised of John Ruby from AEG Network Live represented content creators, Sandy Climan from 3ality proxied the equipment infrastructure, Bob Harris from Panasonic for displays, Tom Edwards from Digital TV at Fox Networks for carriers, and moderator Michael Stroud…
By Tets Maniwa April 9, 2010—Santa Clara, CA— On March 31st, 2010, iHollywood Forum sponsored a panel of 3-D dignitaries to look at the topic, “3-D Beyond The Hype”. This was a chance to discover the latest about the hottest new technology in entertainment. The evening focused on technology and market adoption. Clearly, 3-D has…
By Tets Maniwa April 1, 2010—SNUG Santa Clara, CA—A continuing review of a panel at the Synopys User Group (SNUG) discussing cloud computing and EDA. The panel participants were Hasmukh Ranjan of Synopsys who moderated the panel, Scott Clark, director of engineering for information technologies at Broadcom, Kishore Singal scientist and IT manager for Synopsys,…
By Tets Maniwa March 31, 2010—SNUG Santa Clara, CA—A panel at Synopys User Group (SNUG) looked at the issues associated with cloud computing and its implications for EDA. Hasmukh Ranjan of Synopsys moderated the panel whose members included: Scott Clark, director of engineering for information technologies at Broadcom, Kishore Singal scientist and IT manager for…
By Tets Maniwa March 23, 2010—ISQED conference, San Jose, CA—Anton Domic, senior vice president and general manager at Synopsys presented “Test of the Future-Some Thoughts for the Next Decade” in a lunch talk. Since the ’70’s test equipment manufacturers have gotten between 2 and 4 percent of semiconductor sales for their testers. From just after…