Thursday - Jan 25

   

11:45 AM - 12:00 PM

Introduction (INTRO) - Agenda
Mr. Wim Roelandts, CEO - Xilinx, Inc.
Wim will open up this DSP conference with a brief introduction.

 

   

12:00 PM - 12:20 PM

Market Trends (MKT TRENDS) - Agenda
Mr. Will Strauss, CEO & Founder - Forward Concepts
Will, the leading DSP industry analyst, will talk about his vision of a new information technology era - enabled by high-performance DSP.

 

   

12:20 PM - 12:50 PM

XtremeDSP (XTREMEDSP) - Agenda
Mr. Rich Sevcik, Sr., VP DSP Solutions, IP, Software and Services
Rich will give a brief introduction of XtremeDSP from Xilinx, including DSP silicon features in Virtex-II, new DSP development tools and IP algorithms.

 

   

12:50 PM - 1:20 PM

Matlab & Simulink (MATLAB) - Agenda
Mr. Ken Karnofsky, DSP & comm Mktg Director - The MathWorks, Inc.
Ken will talk abouth new DSP system-level design methodologies from The MathWorks and how DSP designers can use familiar tools to targeted FPGAs.

 

   

1:20 PM - 1:50 PM

Break (BREAK1) - Agenda

 

   

1:50 PM - 2:50 PM

Communication (COMM) - Agenda
Dr. Chris Dick, DSP Chief Architect - Xilinx, Inc.
In this application oriented technical session, Chris will demonstrate how FPGAs are being used in high-performance digital communication systems through several application examples.

 

   

2:50 PM - 3:50 PM

Imaging (IMAGING) - Agenda
Mr. Bob Turney, Expert Image Processing - Xilinx Lab
Bob will in this technical session talk about the use of FPGAs to break new DSP performance barriers within video and imaging applications.

 

   

3:50 PM - 4:20 PM

Break (BREAK2) - Agenda

 

   

4:20 PM - 5:15 PM

Platform FPGA/Virtex-II (FPGA VIRTEX) - Agenda
Mr. Erich Goetting, VP - Xilinx, Inc.
As the leading architect behind Xilinx new Virtex-II FPGA family, Erich will give a fascinating view in to the future, promising a Platform FPGA solutions with enormous processing capabilities, even higher performance levels, and other system features.

 

   

5:15 PM - 5:30 PM

Conclusion (CONCLUSION) - Agenda
Mr. Wim Roelandts, CEO - Xilinx, Inc.
Wim, together with a panel of all presenters, will wrap up the conference with an extensive Q&A session.