March 19, 2012, Interdisciplinary Engineering Design Education Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Manju Hegde from AMD described the need for a new hardware-software co-design paradigm in the latest microprocessors. This change is driven by the academic ecosystem that produces 600 thousand programmers a year to feed an industry that is growing from 25 to 30 million people….
Game Developers Conference, San Francisco—We talked with Imagination Technologies about their latest developments and tools. The driving trends in the consumer electronics spaces are mapping well with the various products that Imagination offers. The latest releases include new cores and development tools for software. The new product releases include the VXE384, a multi-standard, multi-stream video…
June 7, 2011, Electronic Entertainment Expo, Los Angeles—We talked with Owen Tverty and Brian Bruning about Unity 3D and the game development platforms they are producing. Unity and their content development and distribution arm, Union, are serving over 150 k developers and over 500 k copies of the tools have been downloaded. Unity assists developers…
May 4, 2011, ESC, San Jose, CA– Dan O’Dowd, CEO of Green Hills Software describe the need for software developers to upgrade their tools. A revolution in software development tools is overdue, because programmers spend most of their time tracking and fixing difficult problems. Development tools are not evolving to match the state-of-the-art. In a…
April 11, 2011, NAB, Las Vegas—We stopped by the Xilinx booth to see what is new in field programmable devices. They showed us an array of design tools, broadcast-specific IP, and a new 28 nm family of design-compatible FPGAs. The Broadcast Real-Time Video Engine Targeted Design Platform and release of SMPTE2022 IP core to process…
September 30, 2010, Digital video Expo, Pasadena, CA—Oliver Peters, freelance editor and colorist described “Post Production Trends for 2011″in one of the last talks in the program. Cameras are driving a lot of changes in postproduction. The industry is seeing new codecs, recording media, and many other changes. Next-generation processing will use digital, still, and…