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Programme

Wednesday, 31 October 2007

09.30	Registration
09.50	Chairman’s Welcome
10.00	Keynote – Dominant Design in Mobile Devices: HW, SW or Programmable HW (FPGA) Mikko Terho, Vice President and Nokia Fellow, Nokia
11.00	Refreshments

Session 4: Design and Tools

11.30	Floating Point FPGAs Philip Leong, Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong It is difficult to measure the effect of adding embedded blocks such as floating point units (FPUs) to conventional FPGAs The virtual embedded block (VEB) technique uses dummy blocks implemented in the FPGA fabric to model the area and delay of an embedded block Using the VEB technique, the performance improvement of adding FPUs to a conventional FPGA was seen to be 2-10x for over a number of floating point benchmarks
12.00	FPGAs for Massively Parallel Numerical Computation George Constantinides, Senior Lecturer, Imperial College London FPGAs have increased in density to the extent that it is now possible to use them to perform massively parallel numerical computation The flexibility of the FPGA allows the development of custom computational architectures best suited to particular applications, and allows a great freedom in numerical representation These issues will be discussed in general, and some example designs presented for algorithms of particular importance
12.30	Is the future of FPGA's at RISC? Ken Chapman, Senior Staff Engineer, Xilinx
13.00	Lunch

Session 5: Wireless

14.00	Simplifying the development of high Performance military Software Defined Radio Systems using FPGAs Andrew Foster, Product Manager, PrismTech Limited This presentation will discuss the development of a hardware implementation of a CORBA ORB specifically targeted for use in FPGAs and ASICs This presentation will discuss the benefits of a highly efficient standards based communication architecture for FPGAs The presentation will show how a hardware ORB can simplify the development of high performance Software Defined Radio applications while simultaneously ensuring SCA compatibility
14.30	Challenges for FPGA Design of Future Wireless Infrastructure Mike Fitton, Senior Manager, Wireless DSP Solutions Group Here we explore the requirements of future wireless basestations, particularly focusing on the application of FPGAs in WiMAX and 3G LTE Analysis of the increasing signal processing complexity, particularly with MIMO processing. Outline some IP, tools and methodology to address, and where FPGAs can be an alternative to DSPs for implementation of these algorithms System architectural issues, including pragmatic splits between DSP and FPGA? How this is affected by data bandwidth between devices, and the implications on System integration and interfaces
15.00	Refreshments

15.30	Display and Graphics Flexibility with Non-Volatile FPGAs Kerry Howell, Sr Product Marketing Engineer, Lattice Semiconductor Overview the market demands for flexible embedded graphical display solutions Why FPGA devices can provide design solutions to enable instant-on, flexible display systems How modular graphics Intellectual Property can be used in embedded graphics and video systems
16.00	FPOAs: Pushing Programmable Logic Performance Beyond FPGAs Peter Trott, EMEA Field Application Engineer, Mathstar Ltd With the object based architecture of the FPOA, complex functions can be implemented at a deterministic 1GHz performance This paper will look at the architecture and innovative approach to the interconnect to realize this Sample applications will be used to demonstrate how the FPOA’s performance can start where the FPGA’s finish
16.30	Panel Discussion
17.00	Chairman’s Comments / Event close
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