TIXX Seminar by Menno Lindwer
In the context of our Thematic Industry eXperience eXchange (TIXX) series of excursions and seminars, on 30 July 2007, Menno Lindwer of Silicon Hive will provide a seminar on Silicon System Design of Media and Communications Applications.
| 16:00 | Menno Lindwer (Silicon Hive, Eindhoven) |
| Silicon System Design of Media and Communications Applications | |
| Application-specific devices for Ambient Intelligence imply targeted feature sets and associated risks of just not hitting the market window. How can we design and program devices to exactly hit very narrow market windows, given today's fast evolution of media and communications standards and the huge costs for chip design? How can we make sure that these extremely costly chip design cycles and software development efforts do not fail on seemingly futile mistakes in requirements and architecture? How can we build these chips, such that they are not outdated when they hit the market? How do we make sure that resulting devices can work within the power envelope of scavenged ambient power, rather than burning a hole in your clothes? Ambient Intelligence implies a paradigm shift from visible computing (PCs, organizers) to autonomous systems surrounding groups of individuals. Autonomous systems consist of mostly invisible networked devices, each of which having highly specific functionality (e.g. ranging from ambient light regulation to TV programme selection). Interaction will not be through traditional keyboards and screens, but rather by (e)motion, speech, sensory data, subtle environmental changes, etc. All this implies that future devices will be application-specific, requiring high levels of media processing and varying modes of mostly wireless communication. Obviously, media processing already is mostly digital (MP3, MPEG1/2/4, H.264, etc). Communication currently is a mix of standards (GSM, UMTS, WiMax, Wifi A/B/G/N, BlueTooth, DVB, GPS etc.) with different requirements on digital and analog processing. Today, high data rate front-end processing is increasingly being transferred from the analog domain onto digital signal processors. All of these developments require answers to the questions posed above. The presentation answers those questions in the context of Ambient Intelligence. | |
| 17:30 | End |
