Seminars
| Track I 10:15 am to 11:30 am |
Track II 11:30 am to 12:45 pm |
Lunch 12:45 pm to 1:15 pm |
Track III 1:15 pm to 2:30 pm |
Track IV 2:30 pm to 3:45 pm |
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| Intel – Rethink Cool, Rethink Performance… Increasing Computing Performance Per Watt | Freescale Semiconductor – Graphical User Interfaces & Robotic Vision | Lunch | Altera Corporation – Low Power Design with Programmable Logic | Analog Devices – Sensor Signal Conditioning in Medical Applications |
| Texas Instruments – PCB Design for Precision Analog | Lattice Semiconductor – Serdes 101: High Speed SERializer/DESerializer Technology | National Semiconductor – SDI Signal Chain - Design Challenges When Using 3G video | Linear Technology – 'What Your SerDes is Missing' | |
| Infineon Technologies – Controlling BLDC's Inexpensively Using Only an 8-bit Microcontroller | STMicroelectronics – How to Implement Intelligent Motor Control | Renesas Technology – Colorful and Animated Control Panel GUI’s | Atmel – Time to Replace Your Granddaddy's Buttons and Sliders | |
| Numonyx – Phase Change: A New Memory Alternative | Arrow – Driving High Power LEDs | Cypress Semiconductor – Consumer and Commercial Communications Infrastructure | Arrow – Supply Chain Capabilities |
10:15AM–11:30AM Seminars Track I
- Intel - Rethink Cool, Rethink Performance… Increasing Computing Performance Per Watt
- Increase computing performance per watt across a broad range of Embedded and Communications applications by utilizing a ground up design on Intel’s 45 nm, high-k process. The Atom processor enables a new, higher performance generation of mobile internet devices and embedded designs requiring low power in a 1-2.5W envelope.
- Texas Instruments - PCB Design for Precision Analog
- Without paying attention to power supply switching rise-times, load currents, and PCB parasitic components, PCB layouts can result in poor system performance. Tricks and techniques shown here will aid in solid designs. To get the best system performance a good foundation at the PCB level is necessary.
- Infineon Technologies - Controlling BLDC's Inexpensively Using Only an 8-bit Microcontroller
- An inexpensive way of controlling BLDC's with only an 8- bit microcontroller. BLDC theory, Sensor-less Control and Sinusoidal/Vector Control (FOC) will be discussed.
- Numonyx - Phase Change: A New Memory Alternative
- Today’s non-volatile memories are based on a floating gate structure. Over time these memories have increased in capability while reducing cost and lithography. With memory scaling becoming increasingly challenging, an explosion of new memory concepts have emerged recently. One of the most viable of these is Phase Change Memory. Phase Change Memory (PCM) is a term used to describe a class of non-volatile memory devices that employ a reversible phase change in materials to store information. PCM exploits differences in the electrical resistivity of a material in different phases. Unlike large density, non-volatile memory that has a destructive erase/write cycle, PCM changes phase which does not wear down the internal gate structure of the memory cell.
11:30AM–12:45AM Seminars Track II
- Freescale Semiconductor - Graphical User Interfaces & Robotic Vision
- Learn how to implement Graphical User Interfaces using standard LCD displays into your embedded products ... this session will go through LCD technologies & topologies ... attendees will learn about LCD display types and interfacing to Common System Architectures using Graphical User Interfaces ... discussion on the tradeoffs of software and hardware implementations as applied to the embedded space.
- Lattice Semiconductor - Serdes 101: High Speed SERializer/DESerializer Technology
- The following topics will be covered: What is SERDES and why you should use it? I/O Types, Swing ranges AC/DC Coupling; DC Balance problem; Ones Density for PLLS; Encoding; CDR Description; CDR Clocking; SERDES Measurement terminology; Eye Diagrams; and SERDES Applications (Ethernet, PCIe, XAUI, SMPTE, CPRI/OBSAI, etc.)
- STMicroelectronics - How to Implement Intelligent Motor Control
- Smooth operation and high efficiency are behind the design and development of motor control solutions. Covering most standard motor topologies, including DC, AC, Universal, Stepper, SR and PMS.
- Arrow - Driving High Power LEDs
- Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) present many new and unique challenges for lighting engineers. One of the most difficult challenges to overcome is effectively powering the LED. In this seminar, we will show you how to navigate the LED driver landscape, and discuss the relative merits of various circuit designs.
1:15PM–2:30PM Seminars Track III
- Altera Corporation - Low Power Design with Programmable Logic
- Today’s systems demand more performance and higher integration with the conflicting challenge of fixed or shrinking power budgets. How you choose low-power solutions is critical to meet tight system power budgets, reduce thermal challenges while reducing power supply costs. This interactive session will take a look at today's power challenges, and provide solutions.
- National Semiconductor - SDI Signal Chain: Design Challenges When Using 3G Video
- We will take a look at the latest 3 GHz Serial Digital Video standard, focusing on transport and signal integrity issues and interface to FPGAs, design related issues, along with best practices for implementing 3G video designs.
- Renesas Technology America, Inc. - Colorful and Animated Control Panel GUI’s
- Business, consumer, and industrial products are continuing to incorporate a more low-cost, moderate size TFT-LCD panels in their products. The trend is to offer full color displays that show a variety of content such as product operating instructions, maintenance information, safety warnings, usage information, entertainment material, or just general information. The latest TFT-LCD panels are truly dual-purpose peripherals because they have both output and input capabilities. They generally use a parallel interface, require constant refreshing, and support touch-sensitive control functionality. As output devices, the panels give product developers a very flexible and dynamic way to show a large amount of information to users. As input devices, the panels allow the user of a product to touch a button or icon on the screen to activate a function and then slide the finger to select options, rotate/resize an image, or perform other actions in an easy, natural way.
- Cypress Semiconductor - Consumer and Commercial Communications Infrastructure
- Wired & Wireless applications…What is driving choices and why do people want to connect this way. High bandwidth and low bandwidth requirements will be discussed. In addition, frequency selection for wireless solutions and communications over power lines for wired solutions will be presented.
2:30PM–3:45PM Seminars Track IV
- Analog Devices Inc. - Sensor Signal Conditioning in Medical Applications
- This session will cover the state of the art circuits required to signal condition medical instrumentation sensors such as photo diodes, biopotential electrodes, pressure sensors, etc. Signal chain examples of patient monitoring, blood analysis, blood cell counting and others will be used to illustrate the total system signal chain conditioning solutions. Patient isolation solutions and techniques will also be covered.
- Linear Technology - 'What Your SerDes is Missing’
- Digital designers may be all too familiar with the challenges of routing high-speed digital lines between analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) and logic devices. Great care must be taken routing high-speed traces as well as ensuring the digital signals do not cross analog boundaries. Poor layout results in digital switching noise feeding back to the ADC’s analog input ports to degrade the overall system performance. With board real estate at a premium and FPGA pins a valuable commodity, the advantages of serial interfaces over parallel are obvious. However until recently typical serial transmission could not be done above 1.2GHz, forcing a tradeoff in either the speed of an ADC, or its resolution. This seminar provides an overview of the available interfaces and discusses a new, 2-wire serial interface specification that has evolved to the point that it enables a new generation of data converters that connect directly to the Serdes port.
- Atmel - Time to Replace Your Granddaddy's Buttons and Sliders
- Capacitive sensing has become a hot technology for improving the reliability and appearance of today’s products. Many methods exist to replace buttons, sliders and pots with capacitive sensing based solutions. Key design challenges include designing to accommodate temperature, humidity and general environmental condition changes. This presentation will contrast various capacitive sensing methods, and take a deep dive into charge transfer technology.
- Arrow - Supply Chain Capabilities
- A non-technical seminar, this session is designed for Purchasing and Management personnel. Attendees will learn of Arrow’s Supply Chain capabilities.
