May 21, 2015, Imagination Summit, Santa Clara, CA—Tony King-Smith from Imagination talked about the long-term problems for security in embedded systems. The results of a breach can be very sinister and difficult to eradicate. Lately, the world has seen many new attack vectors like “heart bleed” and the IoT will have high consequences for consumers…
May 21, 2015, Imagination Summit, Santa Clara, CA—Art Swift from the prpl foundation talked about a new frontier in information security and the need to move to hardware-based security for SoCs. The founding member of the foundation is Imagination. The security industry is facing many new challenges, many related to the users’ inertia in updating…
May 21, 2015, Imagination Summit, Santa Clara, CA—Tony King-Smith of Imagination moderated a panel looking at various aspects of IoT platforms for future developments. Panelists included Curt Moore from TI, Omid Tahemia from Ikanos, and Eren Eshed from Altair. Segments and applicable platforms? Moore noted that developers need rules and should only change real functions….
May 21, 2015, Imagination Summit, Santa Clara, CA– Kurt Moore from Texas Instruments talked about automotive functions and how they are changing by adding more semiconductor technologies. These technology changes are also driving the auto manufacturers to reconsider their primary objectives and business models, as the industry drivers become greener, safer, and still more fun….
May 21, 2015, Imagination Summit, Santa Clara, CA—Sir Hossein Yassale from Imagination talked about changes in the industry and markets, driven by trends in computer vision, security, virtual and augmented realities, connectivity, and application portability. Mostly functions interact with people leading to changes in existing markets while increasing and changing them. Some of the emerging…
May 21, 2015, Imagination Summit, Santa Clara, CA—Omid Tahemia from Ikanos Communications talked about the challenges related to in-home connectivity. The growing complexity in apps and technology is causing the platforms to stutter. The diversity of apps makes the installation and integration of new devices and their controlling apps somewhat less than simple plug and…
May 21, 2015, Imagination Summit, Santa Clara, CA—Eran Eshed from Altair presented talking points about cellular infrastructure for the IoT. The greatest challenges are in overcoming the perceptions that LTE is a high-power, high-performance data transport technology that is very expensive. New technology developments and the latest revision to the LTE standards enable the cellular…
May 7, 2014, Internet of Things Developer Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Peter McGuinness from Imagination Technologies talked about scaling processors in heterogeneous platforms to the app and performance requirements. This approach to systems development allows for more flexibility and more optimal power, performance, and cost structures. Developing devices for the IoT must address the high likelihood…
October 15, 2013, Imagination Developers Connection, San Francisco—To help designers make better software designs, here are some golden rules. The main idea is to reduce bottlenecks to reduce CPU loading, minimize internal bandwidth, and keep the CPU and GPU in sync. Understand the target devices and any changes in the internal structures within the SoC….
October 15, 2013, Imagination Developer Connection, San Francisco—Imagination Technologies held one in a series of conferences to address the information needs for their developers. Topics included hardware architectures, explain their ray tracing technologies, development tools, and a market analysis to justify the efforts from developers. Imagination has a number of processors, graphics engines, and software…