On June 14th, (the eve of the E3 show) iHollywood Forum is holding the 3D next conference (http://3d-next.com/) . The day long event is focusing on separating the hype from reality in stereoscopic 3D for TV, Film, Gaming and Mobile. While a strong lineup of speakers and expo partners are already in place, there are still speaking, presentation and panel…
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 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 24, 2010—ISQED, San Jose,CA—Ramanan Thiagarajah, senior director of product and test engineering at Inphi Corp. described the overall process Inphi uses to design and build very high performance memory solutions for server-class computer systems. He started by describing the transition from centralized mainframe computers to distributed arrays of smaller computers like…
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…
October 2017 - Once again visiting the 2017 Mill Valley Film Festival, we move the focus to the directors and writers of the films. Lidia Paulinska holds several discussions on the process of film making ans story telling that went into the creation of some of the content at the festival. This episode of Bright Blue…