EL DORADO HILLS, Calif., Jan. 30 — Some of the industry’s best-known and most-respected analysts and editors will be among the speakers and panel moderators at this year’s Multicore Expo, taking place March 27 through 29 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, Calif. The three-day program will also feature an announcement from the Multicore Association on the development of its industry-standard Communication API.
Presentations will be delivered by Matthew Eastwood of IDC, Linley Gwennap of The Linley Group, Eric Heikkila of Venture Development Corporation, and Will Strauss of Forward Concepts, while John Blyler of Chip Design Magazine, Jim Turley of Silicon Insider, Steve Szirom of InsideChips, Ron Wilson of EDN, and Markus Levy of The Multicore Association and EEMBC will lead panel discussions.
“I’m honored to be sharing the podium at Multicore Expo with this exceptionally distinguished company, which is truly a Who’s Who of our industry,” said Levy, who chairs the conference. “Just as remarkable as the depth of the expertise and talent represented here is the range of topics these presentations and panels will cover. This certainly points not only to the growing scope of multicore implementations, but also to the expanding contours of the multicore ecosystem itself.”
Multicore Expo panels and presentations are set to cover both technical and business aspects of multicore implementations. Presentation topics will range from the role of DSP in multicore processors (Strauss) and multicore processors for security and the control plane (Gwennap) to the findings of an ongoing study of which applications and vertical markets in the embedded market will require multicore processing capability and drive growth (Heikkila).
Panel topics will cover an equally broad field of issues. They will address problems ranging from multicore interconnect (Blyler) and standards for debug (Wilson) to the relative merits of heterogeneous and homogeneous implementations (Turley) and the ecosystem environment that new multicore processor ventures will encounter (Szirom). The interplay between multicore research and efforts to commercialize multicore products will be the topic of a panel with participants from both academic institutions and commercial R&D operations being moderated by Levy.
In conjunction with Multicore Expo, the Multicore Association will announce further details of its industry-standard Communication API, which targets closely distributed computing applications and includes simple use cases and requirements for automotive, multimedia, and networking systems. The API addresses three communications types: connectionless messages, connection-oriented packets, and scalars.
Now in its second year, the three-day Multicore Expo will feature many other technical sessions and keynotes, as well as a two-day exhibit. Registration is now open at www.multicore-expo.com and available at a 50% super-early-bird discount off the regular $695 price through Feb. 6.
About Multicore Expo
Multicore Expo is the only conference dedicated to delivering real developer solutions for multicore and multiprocessing designs in the embedded and high-performance computing environment. Aimed at providing attendees with the best and most relevant information available on all the major issues in multicore processor design and implementation, session topics include multicore programming, debug, operating systems, hardware architectures, EDA, and ESL. The conference is a coproduction of BackDraft Technologies (www.backdraft-technologies.com) and ConVergence Promotions (www.convergencepromotions.com).