Multi-Core & Multi-Processor systems have been gaining ground for a number of years. Now with the complexity of such systems rapidly increasing, the ending of the ‘free lunch' delivered by successive generations of silicon technology and the need for performance gains coupled with energy efficiency, what is the way forward?

This event will look at the challenges in designing, verifying and debugging a system with multiple processors. How can you ensure reliability, particularly if the multiple processors are from different vendors rather than on a single chip? Is it always necessary to use multiple cores to get performance and do designers even need to be aware of the underlying system?

In addition to the presentations, as with all NMI network events, there will be the opportunity to meet and network with attendees from a variety of organisations ranging from fabless semiconductor providers, IDMs, tool suppliers, foundries, design/software service providers, IP providers, training, research and academic institutions.

Outline Agenda (Download Detailed Agenda)

Note : presentations and the attendee list from this event are now available in the members' area

 

9:00 Registration, refreshments & table-tops

9:45 Presentations Start

Jeremy Bennett, Embecosm  - Chair

STMicroelectronics , Andy Lunness : "Fifteen Years in Multi-Core Systems"

Lauterbach, Barry Lock : "Surviving a Multicore Development Project"

Imagination Technologies , Tony King-Smith : "Multi-Core, Multi-threaded, Multi-standard: Using architecture to maximise IP product scalability"

Wind River, Paul Tingey: "Multicore System Architecture - from the Software Perspective"

 

12:30 Lunch

 

Critical Blue, David Stewart : "What Do Embedded Software Developers Really Think About Multicore Architectures?"

Renesas, Joe Brennan : "Systems Knowledge at a Premium"

LeCroy, Matthew Dunn : "Evolution of Protocol Aware Exercisers using multi-threaded techniques"

16:00 Close - Refreshments & Continued Networking

 

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