One-Day Forum Returns to ESC, April 3 at San Jose's Fairmont Hotel; Executives
and Editors Pit Newest Processors Head-to-Head
SAN FRANCISCO, March 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CMP Media today announced
the program details for the second annual Microprocessor Summit, back by
popular demand as part of the upcoming Embedded Systems Conference Silicon
Valley (http://www.embedded.com/esc/sv), on Monday, April 3. The one-day Summit
provides a forum for major semiconductor companies to introduce new embedded
processors, microcontrollers, and digital signal processors, and to debate the
pros and cons of today's products.
The Summit, sponsored this year by Xilinx, BDTI, and The Linley Group,
will bring together the nation's leading embedded designers, chip architects,
chip industry executives, analysts, press, and venture capitalists for juried
announcements of new processors. The day's presentations will be coupled with
a discussion led by editorial moderators, highlighting each vendor's latest
products, and key distinctions among the competition.
Program Chair Jim Turley, editor-in-chief of Embedded Systems Design, will
moderate a New Products Announcements presentation (10:30am-12:30pm), where
companies like Altera, AMCC and Intelasys will world-premiere their latest
innovations. Attendees will hear real-time analysis by an independent staff of
editors and analysts, and learn what each of these chips means to customers
and to the industry. Audience members can ask piercing questions of each
presenter, while company speakers will be challenged to defend their products
and strategies.
"The Microprocessor Summit is the must-attend forum for Silicon Valley's
most innovative chip creators, and is back due to overwhelming demand from the
community," said Jim Turley. "This is the premiere forum for designers,
architects, business leaders, and press to see top vendors compete and prove
which processors are the very best on the market."
Throughout the day, breakout sessions will include head-to-head
competition among leading vendors:
Media Processors Breakout Session (2:00pm - 3:30pm)
Digital video is hot. Applications ranging from home entertainment to
surveillance are going digital, and new applications like portable media
players are quickly emerging. This session will present some of the latest
processors for digital video, including a RISC CPU, a VLIW-based processor,
and a multi-core processor. Presentations include: Blackfin in Convergent
Processing (Analog Devices); New 32-bit Core Outruns DSP-oriented MCUs in
EEMBC-Certified Benchmarks (Atmel Norway); and DaVinci Technology: Simplifying
Digital Video Systems Design (Texas Instruments).
Low End Processors Breakout Session (2:00pm - 3:30pm)
8- and 16-bit processors make up most of the world's processor industry,
and the forecast looks rosy. Find out what the major vendors are doing to
protect their positions, and what the challengers are doing to knock them off.
Presentations include: The MAXQ3120 Electricity Metering Microcontroller
(Dallas Semiconductor/Maxim); The Rabbit Family of Processors (Rabbit
Semiconductors); MSP430F20xx MCUs: Tiny, Fast, Flexible Low-pin Count Devices
(Texas Instruments).
Digital Signal Controllers Breakout Session (4:00pm - 5:30pm)
Digital signal controllers (DSC) combine the attributes of digital signal
processors (DSPs) with those of microcontrollers (MCUs), targeting motor
control and other computationally demanding control-loop applications.
Presentations include: Benefits and Applications of Freescale's 56F8000
Digital Signal Controller Products (Freescale Semiconductor); Expanding the
DSC Horizons: dsPIC33F and PIC24 (Microchip Technology Inc.); and TMS320F28x
Controllers: Delivering Innovative, Cost-effective Embedded Control (Texas
Instruments).
High End Processors Breakout Session (4:00pm - 5:30pm)
Examining processors that deliver enough performance for the most
demanding embedded applications -- such as security, networking, and
communications infrastructure. Presentations include: OCTEON Multi-core MIPS64
Processors for Intelligent Next Generation Networks (Cavium Networks);
MPC8360E PowerQUICC II Pro Processor in Wireless Infrastructure Access
(Freescale Semiconductor); and The First PWRficient Processor (P.A. Semi).
Attendees to the Microprocessor Summit will also have the opportunity to
hear the first release of results of the 2006 ESD Embedded Survey -- a sneak
peek into operating systems, languages, chips, and vendors working engineers
prefer, and which ones they dislike. CMP Media's extensive research covers
topics and developers spanning international trends, and this will be the
first opportunity for attendees to see how the numbers add up before the
results are officially released.
The Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) is North America's largest
electronic systems design event, and will welcome thousands of the world's
electronics engineering elite, gathered in one place to showcase their latest
innovations and technological achievements. Conference highlights include a
comprehensive technical program and design seminars, an exhibit show floor
featuring the industry's top players, a keynote address by inventor and
entrepreneur Dean Kamen, and the co-location of the D2M conference. For the
complete Embedded Systems Conference program, visit: http://www.embedded.com/esc/sv.
About CMP Media's Electronics Group
The CMP Media Electronics Group is the premier technology and business
media brand serving the information needs of the creators of technology
worldwide through print, online and conferences.
As the most comprehensive and integrated source of electronics technology
information, the CMP Media Electronics Group offers a full suite of products
and services to reach electronics systems design professionals throughout the
world. With its combination of media properties, the CMP Media Electronics
Group focuses on delivering a targeted audience and actionable information to
marketers in the electronics technology community.
Each month, CMP Media's Electronics Group delivers more than 1 million
copies of its publications in five languages to subscribers in 55 countries.
Online visitors from more than 100 countries view more than 7.5 million pages
on its Web sites in six languages and in a year, more than 35,000 decision
makers from 48 countries attend its conferences in North America, China,
Taiwan and Europe.
CMP Media's Electronics Group properties include:
* Print -- EE Times, Embedded Systems Design, Electronics Supply &
Manufacturing
* Online -- EE Times Online, DesignLines, PlanetAnalog.com,
Embedded.com, my-esm.com, CommsDesign.com, and SupplyLines
* Conferences -- Embedded Systems Conferences, Embedded Connect and
Design Seminars
About CMP Media (http://www.cmp.com)
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Media is a subsidiary of United Business Media
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and specialist information services with a market capitalization of more than
$3 billion.
Contact: Julia Konstantinovsky
Atomic Public Relations for CMP Media
julia@atomicpr.com
415-402-0230
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