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Dr.
Diederik Verkest
(Group Science Director, IMEC)
Multimedia systems in a changing technology
landscape
Multimedia systems are typically
computation intensive. Ever
more complex algorithms and the continuous increasing resolution suggest
that this trend will continue for the foreseeable future. Silicon IC
technology scaling delivers the required transistor densities to meet
the computational needs of multimedia systems, however, at an ever
increasing cost. Changes in the technology landscape influence
multimedia systems architectures, resulting in design challenges and
opportunities. In this presentation we provide a glimpse of this
technology-design interaction in the context of multimedia systems,
touching upon multi-core architectures, 3D chip-stacking, and embedded
MEMS technology.
Bio of the
speaker
Diederik
Verkest received a PhD from KU-Leuven in 1994. He has been working at
IMEC in a variety of positions and topics related to system design and
implementation of mobile multimedia systems. He is scientific director
of digital system design at IMEC focusing on the design-technology
interaction for both More-Moore and More-than-Moore technologies.
Diederik co-authored over 150 articles and is a golden-core member of
the IEEE Computer Society.
Dr. Jan-Willem van de Waerdt
(Fellow, Chief TriMedia Architect, NXP Semiconductors)
Media processing
challenges in today's (and tomorrow's) consumer SoCs.
This presentation provides an industrial, hardware-centric perspective
on embedded systems for real-time multimedia. It consists of two parts.
The first part provides some background in terms of NXP consumer SoCs.
It provides a high level overview of a TV SoC, the PNX85500, and
details one of its components, the TriMedia processor. This
mediaprocessor is used for a multitude of diverse tasks and allows for
efficient hardware/software co-design.
The second part zooms into some specific functions and challenges,
related to the design of a TV SoC. This part addresses functions such
as Frame Rate Conversion and 3D TV, and challenges such as off-chip
memory communication, video compression and the need for "design for
flexibility".
It is the intent of the presentation to identify today's challenges
from which research opportunities may be derived. Expect as many
questions as answers…
Bio of the speaker
Jan-Willem van de Waerdt received a M.Sc. degree in Computer Science
(cum laude), from the Technical University Twente and a Ph.D. degree
from Delft University of Technology. , the Netherlands. From 1995
till 1998, he was employed as a research scientist at Philips Research
in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. His work focused on real-time operating
systems, multimedia codecs and computer architecture.
Since 1998, he is employed by Philips Semiconductors (now NXP Semiconductors)
in San Jose, USA. He
worked as logic designer, architect and chief architect in the design
of MIPS processors, TriMedia processors and on-chip memory infrastructure
components. He is currently the chief processor architect for the TriMedia
design activities. He holds 16 patents and published a range of scientific papers. In 2003, the TM5250 TriMedia media-processor received the Best Media
Processor of the Year award from Microprocessor Report, for which he did the
architecture and part of the logic design. In 2006, Jan-Willem van de Waerdt
was awarded the position of Fellow at NXP Semiconductors.
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