June 13, 2013, Association for Corporate Growth, San Jose, CA—An executive panel considered the issues of innovation in their respective industries. Sharma Banerjee from Socialtext moderated the panel, and panelists were Komathi Stem from Genentech, Stan Rosenschein from BranchTime, Brian Steel from UC Berkeley, and Karoly Nikolich from Circuit Theraputics. While the open innovation movement…
October 31, 2012, ARM TechCom, Santa Clara, CA—Xilinx announced a new version of their Zinq, all programmable FPGAs. The applications focus for the new families are in security and safety, driven by increased interest and more software in security. We talked with David Beal and Stephane Monboisset about the customer-driven additions to the FPGA platforms….
October 2012 – At the Linley Processor conference, we had a chance to talk to Chris Rowen of Tensilica regarding their overall position in second place in the CPU/DSP IP Licensing market with tier licensees shipment of their 2 Billionth IP core. The run rate on the cores – called DPUs for Dataplane Processing Units,…
September 6, 2012—We talked with Xilinx about the release of some new reference designs directed towards the broadcast industry. These new designs cover the entire range of content processing, from capture to delivery. The broadcast landscape is becoming more complex, as facility technologies move to the consumer. The transition to digital puts a premium on…
June 2012 – ARM recently presented an update on their MALI GPU platform, which is targeting the estimated 4B devices utilizing graphics engines by 2016. The GPU is addressing the visual computing market with has been tasked at improving the QOE (quality of experience) of the user, while consuming digital content. The prevalence of graphics…
October 26, 2011, – Santa Clara, CA – At the ARMTechCon event, Tektronix’s Embedded Instrumentation Group, recently formed from the acquisition of Veridae Systems, showed their award wining Clarus and Certus tools for in-chip ASIC and FPGA validation and debugging. Today’s designs have a complexity level that leaves large numbers of block I/Os and data…
Oct 25, 2011 – Chicago , IL – At the 4G world conference, Imagination Technologies intorduced the HelloSoft V.VOIP solution for smartphones. This solution is the first major integration into the Imagination product line from the HelloSoft acquisition. The V.VOIP (for voice and video over IP) is an SDK for smartphones that supports their mult-platform…
October 4, 2011, TVNext, San Jose, CA–Steven Reynolds from Comcast talked about the future of video service devices in a multi-platform universe. The next generation of services will be delivered via the customer’s on-premise equipment. The service providers consider this new set of services to be in the future. Video over IP is going to…
October 12, 2011 – The IPSO Alliance held a press event in the middle of theit committee meetings in Santa Clara. The group is focused on IP as the interoperability protocol for Smart Objects. Smart objects, an Internet of Things and ubiquitous computing are no longer “future” issues, these areas are here today. These products…
May 3, 2011 – San Jose, CA – At the Embedded Systems Conference Imagination Technologies was showing their new directions in Flow Technology. The standard IP business for IMG TECH is progressing. They have introduced a new UI for PowerVR for Set Top Box applications. These cores have shipped in over 500M chips, 100M+ of…