List of Sessions for 2009 Multicore Expo

We are still waiting on a few companies to provide us with their presentations. Stay Tuned!

Development Tools for Programming, Debug, and Modeling
	ME610: Hardware Virtualization for Multicore Development: it's not just virtualization...it's also the end-user tools CoWare - Marc Serughetti - 03/19/09: 10:15-10:45 Multicore designs also introduce significant challenges that require new design ... more»
	ME578: Improving Multicore Software Development Productivity using Virtualization Synopsys - Frank Schirrmeister - 03/19/09: 09:05-10:10 With software development increasingly dominating the development effort, embedd... more»
	ME660: Advanced Multicore Debug Freescale - Rich Collins - 03/19/09: 14:45-15:15 This session will explore the basic and advanced set of "debug" features to look... more»
	ME575: Debug of Multicore Software Using Implementation Accurate Virtual Prototypes Carbon Design Systems - Bill Neifert - 03/19/09: 13:35-14:05 The latest generation of embedded processors has further complicated the debug o... more»
	ME614: Graphical Modeling and Simulating Parallel Applications Running on Multiprocessor and Multicore Architectures CoFluent Design - Vincent Perrier - 03/19/09: 11:35-12:05 This presentation will cover a graphical modeling language meant for representin... more»
	ME615: Non-Intrusive Visibility into Multicore SoCs MIPS Technologies - Rick Leatherman - 03/19/09: 14:10-14:40 One of the biggest challenges in multicore system development is how to gain non... more»
	ME606: Requirements for System-on-Chip Analysis from Simulation to Silicon Sonics, Inc. - Pascal Chauvet - 03/19/09: 13:00-13:30 This presentation addresses the requirements for SoC analysis from simulation to... more»
	ME627: System Design Using Virtualization to Abstract the Limitations of Multicore Hardware Wind River - Mark Hermeling - 03/19/09: 11:00-11:30 Traditional embedded system design is often driven by hardware selection first a... more»

Embedded Graphics, Multimedia, and Mobile Applications
	ME631: Panel: Enabling Visual Computing and Next Generation Multicore Mobile Devices NVIDIA - Neil Trevett - 03/18/09: 08:45-09:45 Multicore technology and power-optimized graphics and media acceleration will en... more»
	ME600: Leveraging the Benefits of Symmetric Multi-Processing in Mobile Devices Texas Instruments - Brian Carlson - 03/18/09: 15:45-16:15 Mobile devices such as Smartphones and mobile internet devices are going through... more»
	ME675: Multi-level Parallelization of a Physically Based Smoke Simulation Using OpenCL Aurora Borealis Software LLC - Yahya Mirza - 03/18/09: 16:55-17:25 OpenCL is an emerging industry standard low-level portability substrate that abs... more»
	ME620: Panel: ManyCore or Programmable Accelerators? What Will Win the Mobile Media MPSoC War? Forward Concepts - Will Strauss - 03/18/09: 14:20-15:25 Video is clearly an application where both embarrassing parallelism and convenie... more»
	ME676: Unleashing Compelling User Experiences through Open Standard APIs and State-of-the-art Mobile Silicon NVIDIA - Neil Trevett - 03/18/09: 16:20-16:50 Over one billion mobile and embedded devices ship every year - generating a sign... more»

Gathering of Multicore Dignitaries
	ME638: Extracting the Essentials of Multicore Software Wind River Systems - Tomas Evensen - 03/17/09: 09:55-10:25 The increasing core count of today's multicore processors creates the opportunit... more»
	ME629: Keynote: Multicore Hardware Features to Enable the Future Embedded Industry Freescale - Kent Fisher - 03/17/09: 11:35-12:20 Multicore technology has pervaded embedded markets as varied as the automotive, ... more»
	ME632: Keynote: Scaling the User Experience: How Multicore-Based Parallelism Ensures an Ever More Inspiring User Experience Imagination Technologies - Tony King-Smith - 03/17/09: 10:45-11:30 Multimedia is showing up almost everywhere especially in the consumer, mobile, a... more»
	ME635: Opening Remarks and Multicore Association Update Multicore Association - Markus Levy - 03/17/09: 08:45-09:15 The embedded multicore industry continues to expand, as evidenced by the wide va... more»
	ME636: Virtualization on Multicore Platforms Sun Microsystems - Denis Sheahan - 03/17/09: 09:20-09:50
	ME633: Achieving Near Linear Performance Scalability with Multiprocessing for Graphics Imagination Technologies - Peter McGuiness - 03/18/09: 10:40-11:10 This engineering-level keynote will analyze some of the factors that determine w... more»
	ME630: Closing the Multicore Hardware-Software Gap Freescale - Tim Tumilty - 03/18/09: 09:50-10:20 The programming, analysis and debugging tools that embedded software developers ... more»
	ME672: Keynote: Business Benefits and Risks of Multicore Software Wind River - Marc Brown - 03/18/09: 11:50-12:35 With the success of multicore and the advantages it has brought to IT: the conti... more»
	ME623: Listening to Sequential Software Developers Going Parallel CriticalBlue - David Stewart - 03/18/09: 11:15-11:45 Engineers already developing or soon starting on multicore software programs mus... more»

Implementing Parallelism to Take Advantage of Multicore
	ME596: Making Parallelism Work for You in Real Applications - Key Issues and How to Solve Them Codeplay Software Ltd. - Alastair Donaldson - 03/17/09: 16:15-16:45 Real applications have complex data structures and parallelism comes in many for... more»
	ME621: Practical Shared Memory Parallelization CriticalBlue - Skip Hovsmith - 03/17/09: 14:15-14:45 Conversion of legacy sequential applications to leverage shared memory multicore... more»
	ME602: Think Parallel: Developing for Multicore Architectures Sun Microsystems - Ikroop Dhillon - 03/17/09: 16:50-17:20 With the latest multicore systems, the age of hardware parallelism is here today... more»
	ME634: Using a MultiBench Methodology to Analyze Multicore System Performance EEMBC - Shay Gal-On - 03/17/09: 14:50-15:20 EEMBC's MultiBench, the industry standard multicore benchmark suite, provides a ... more»
	ME609: Concurrency Simplified, and Parallelism for Free B Labs Ltd. - Bahadir Balban - 03/19/09: 09:40-10:10 Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP) is a precise mathematical theory of con... more»
	ME673: Efficient Mapping of Streaming Applications on Multicores Using Process Networks Compaan Design BV - Bart Kienhuis - 03/19/09: 10:15-10:45 In high performance streaming applications, lot’s of parallelism is present but ... more»
	ME611: Establishing Consistent and Reliable Multicore Programming Practices Intel - CriticalBlue - Max Domeika - 03/19/09: 08:30-09:00 While the industry and academics toil away on long term research into languages ... more»
	ME617: Multicore is Not a New Programming Problem, Rather a Simple Solution to a Complicated System Problem Tilera - Ihab Bishara - 03/19/09: 09:05-09:35 Multicore delivers raw performance by packing many cores on one chip, but many c... more»

Multicore SoC Design and Interconnect Solutions
	ME587: Managing SoC Complexity Using 'True' Globally Asynchronous, Locally Synchronous Interconnect Technologies Silistix - David Stratman - 03/18/09: 14:20-14:50 A majority of complex multicore SoC designs are delayed, surpass power & area bu... more»
	ME619: Panel: Clock & Power Domain Control/Management Challenges in a Multicore World: The Interconnect Dilemma EDN Magazine - Ron Wilson - 03/18/09: 16:20-17:25 Multicore SoC designs are experiencing rapid growth in both the number of discre... more»
	ME670: Power Management Communications in an Energy-Conscious Era Synopsys - Srikanth Jadcherla - 03/18/09: 15:45-16:15 Electronic devices are some of the key components in both the load and generatio... more»
	ME607: Using Multichannel DRAM Subsystems to Create Scalable Architectures for Video SoCs Sonics, Inc. - Alex Chao - 03/18/09: 14:55-15:25 Sophisticated image and scaling algorithms for high definition video along with ... more»

Multicore System Design
	ME612: Applying an Industry Standard Communication API to Your Embedded Multicore Design PolyCore Software, Inc. - Sven Brehmer - 03/17/09: 14:50-15:20 Moving embedded applications from single processor to multicore often involve di... more»
	ME608: Designing a Platform Agnostic Resource Management API for Multicore Systems Freescale Semiconductor - Jim Holt - 03/17/09: 14:15-14:45 Managing application layer shared resources on a multicore chip requires feature... more»
	ME628: Parallelizing Serial Applications: a JPEG Case Study Plurality - Peleg Aviely - 03/17/09: 16:50-17:20 One of the key challenges facing multicore developers is how to take an applicat... more»
	ME616: Scaling Performance on One Architecture Running Under Linux MIPS Technologies - Mark Throndson - 03/17/09: 15:40-16:10 SMP operating systems and coherent multicore platforms offer developers a perfor... more»
	ME622: Design Challenges and Solutions for Targeting a Mobile Multimedia Platform Toshiba America Electronic Co - Deepak Prakash - 03/19/09: 13:00-13:30 In 2008 Toshiba introduced a new scalable multicore processor, Venezia, for mobi... more»
	ME592: Multi-mode Multi-core Modem Design Using ESL, ASIP and RTL Flow Texas Instruments - Manish Goel - 03/19/09: 14:45-15:15 In this presentation, we will describe design methodology used for development o... more»
	ME671: Overcoming the Challenges of Migrating Telecom Protocol Stacks to a Multicore Platform Continuous Computing - Mike Coward - 03/19/09: 14:10-14:40 Leveraging the power of multi-threaded and multicore processors in telecom appli... more»
	ME576: Reconfigurable Multicore Communications Platform for Optimization, Exploration and Scalability PolyCore Software, Inc. - Sven Brehmer - 03/19/09: 11:35-12:05 Making single processor applications run effectively on a multicore platform inv... more»
	ME568: Understanding and Measuring Performance Aspects of an SMP-Based Multicore Architecture ARM - John Goodacre - 03/19/09: 13:35-14:05 Software design has become more relevant while transitioning platforms from sing... more»

Multicore Virtualization and Hypervisors
	ME604: OS and Hypervisor Considerations in Designing Multicore Solutions LynuxWorks, Inc. - Arun Subbarao - 03/19/09: 11:00-12:05 Multicore processors are now being widely considered for the new generation of e... more»
	ME577: Partitioning Vs. Virtualization: Achieve True Real-time Performance in Embedded Multicore Systems RadiSys - Steve Johnson - 03/19/09: 14:45-15:15 The presentation reviews current multicore processing implementations that use a... more»
	ME618: Standards-Based Multicore Virtualization Framework for Hypervisors and Distributed I/O Nokia Siemens Networks - Surender Kumar - 03/19/09: 14:10-14:40 The presentation will explain the primary motivations behind the establishment o... more»
	ME626: The Need for Hypervisors in Embedded Multicore Virtualization Freescale - Knute Lingaard - 03/19/09: 13:00-13:30 Multicore processors are allowing multiple applications running on different ope... more»
	ME586: The Unique Challenges of Applying Virtualization to Embedded Devices Wind River Systems - Ray Richardson - 03/19/09: 13:35-14:05 Reducing systems costs by consolidating hardware while at the same time providin... more»

Networking and Telecommunications
	ME603: Panel: Trends in Multicore Processor Design and Application Optimization The Linley Group - Linley Gwennap - 03/17/09: 16:15-17:20 This panel discussion will explore the current state of the art in multicore pro... more»
	ME582: Remove Complexities to Expedite Networking Designs Within Multicore 6WIND - Dominique Lanfranchi - 03/17/09: 14:15-14:45 Telecommunications, wireless and security equipment designers can greatly benefi... more»
	ME585: Rocket-Powered Packets: Optimizing Networking Performance Using Multicore Hardware Offload Wind River - Mark Guinther - 03/17/09: 15:40-16:10 Performance and cost have always been critical metrics for evaluating networking... more»
	ME497: The Need for Heterogeneous Multicore Processing Systems in 10Gbps Netronome - Nabil Damouny - 03/17/09: 14:50-15:20 With rising network traffic and the need for applications awareness, content ins... more»
	ME584: Mapping Radio User Plane Processing on Multicore Architectures for Next Gen LTE Basestations LSI Corporation - Henri Tervonen - 03/19/09: 08:30-09:00 User Plane processing in today's mobile networks involves intensive processing. ... more»
	ME663: Multicore Development Challenges and Solutions for Networking and Communications Applications Cavium Networks - Steve Klinger - 03/19/09: 09:40-10:10 Major trends such as virtualization, regulatory compliance, advancements in stor... more»
	ME581: Software Design for Multicore-Based Telecommunications and Networking Equipment 6WIND - Eric Carmes - 03/19/09: 10:15-10:45 Telecommunications and networking are early multicore technology adopters as it ... more»

Operating Systems
	ME613: An Alternative to Hypervisors for Multicore Partitioning eSOL - Elmer Riego de Dios - 03/18/09: 14:55-15:25 Combining AMP and SMP in a single-instance RTOS addresses issues such as through... more»
	ME595: Choosing Symmetric, Asymmetric, or Blended Multiprocessing eSOL - Elmer Riego de Dios - 03/18/09: 14:20-14:50 The software in modern complex embedded systems, including consumer electronics,... more»
	ME583: Combining Bare Metal Performance and SMP Ease-of-use With a Multicore RTOS Enea - Magnus Karlsson - 03/18/09: 15:45-16:15 Using real-time operating systems (RTOS) on multicore chips has become a major f... more»
	ME579: Design Principles for Operating Systems Targeting Multicore DSPs Enea - Daniel Forsgren - 03/18/09: 16:55-17:25 Developing with multicore DSPs presents new challenges as users attempt to reali... more»
	ME674: GNU Toolchain Features For Multicore Development CodeSourcery - Mark Mitchell - 03/18/09: 16:20-16:50 The GNU Toolchain, the Eclipse IDE, and the GNU/Linux operating system are being... more»