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ACISC 2010: Call for Participation 5th Annual Austin Conference on Integrated Systems & Circuits 2010 October 29, 2010 The Commons Center J.J. Pickle Center, Austin, Texas Early registration is extended until October 28.
Integrated Systems For A Smarter Planet Peter Hofstee,
The technical core of the conference will be centered around an embedded panel and two special sessions of invited talks. The embedded panel on Processors for Large Systems will feature debaters from IBM, Freescale, AMD, and ARM. We are currently witnessing a shift towards the consolidation of computing into a cloud of large data centers and high performance systems. While regular desktop processors have been used traditionally, as such systems grow in size and importance, their unique constraints have made special processors tuned for such environments an interesting alternative. This panel will discuss the question of what the right processor architecture for large systems should be and what the associated design challenges are. The first special session will focus on the recent advances in IC design for wireless systems. The session will feature invited talks on baseband considerations in modern radio Receivers and on power-aware multi-band multi-standard wireless receivers. The second special session will focus on Application Processors and SoCs. Traditional distinctions between application-specific and embedded computing are blurring and modern embedded platforms provide a heterogeneous mix of programmable and custom processors in the quest to balance flexibility with ultra low power and high performance requirements. This session will present two examples of how these complexity and heterogeneity challenges have been successfully navigated in state-of-the-art multi-processor SoC designs from Intel and Texas Instruments. An early evening panel will focus on the difficult challenges that American and, specifically, Austin high-tech industries face with the increasing globalization. A group of panelists will debate the question of what the trends in the semiconductor industry, such as globalization and off-shoring, mean for individuals, the profession, and the Austin high-tech community. The panel will explore such questions as "Which jobs are staying in the US, and which are migrating?", "Should my children be engineers?", and "What is the outlook for Austin?". The conference will conclude with a reception and networking event for the attendees. |
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