Free Embedded Seminar

Venue: Reading  Date: 3rd June 2003

This seminar is intended to provide the Embedded Software Engineer with up to date information on such topics as the increasing role of DSP's, advances in network protocols, Realtime OS's on DSP's as well as a discussion on hardware solutions.

It will be ideal for engineers seeking to start new embedded projects or engineers simply wanting to keep track of Embedded technology.
 

Agenda:

9.00 - 09.45

Why DSP's play an increasingly important role in Embedded Engineering

09.45 - 10.30

A 3G downlink layer 1 implementation in C, running on
a DSP

10.30 - 10.45

Teabreak

10.45 - 11.30

Why use a Realtime OS on DSP's

11.30 - 12.00

Databases in Embedded Systems - Why are they used?

12.00 - 13.00

Explaining Protocal Stacks, from TCP/IP to IPSec

13.00 - 13.30

Buffet Lunch & Meet Presenters

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Why DSP's play an increasingly important role in Embedded Engineering

Time: 9.00 - 09.45

An introduction to the use of DSP's in embedded systems, their architectures and capabilities.

  • Introduction - trends in programmable DSP's and their application
  • Tigersharc - architecture, benchmarks and application
  • Blackfin - architecture, benchmarks and application
  • The development tool chain and algorithm availability
  • Questions/Close

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A 3G downlink layer 1 implementation in C, running on a DSP

Time: 09.45 - 10.30

  • Overview of the 3G downlink layer 1
  • Structured analysis or object oriented methods?
  • Encapsulation of processes and sub-processes
  • Managing the process data
  • Test and debugging strategies
  • Optimisation issues

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Why use a Realtime OS on DSP's?

Time: 10.45 - 11.30

This presentation will discuss the advantages that using an RTOS can offer the developer when developing DSP based embedded systems.

  • Overview of an RTOS
  • Task Scheduling and Deterministic Performance
  • Interprocess Communication
  • Memory allocation, performance and fragmentation
  • RTOS support for mixed DSP and CPU designs, multi DSP designs
  • Error management
  • Development and debugging technologies

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Databases in Embedded Systems - Why they are used?

Time: 11.30 - 12.00

  • A brief introduction to databases
  • Standards for database access
  • The special needs in embedded systems
  • Additional features to look out for

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Explaining Protocol Stacks, from TCP/IP to IPSec

Time: 12.00 - 13.00

This presentation will discuss how to connect heterogenous distributed embedded systems in a secure and cost-effective way using the new generation internet protocols. Emphasis will be given to:

  • Overview of the internet protocols
  • Introduction to different cryptographic methods
  • Comparison of Security Protocols
  • Performance issues
  • Hardware accelerated encryption
  • Deployment in DSP and MCU architectures
  • Next generation internet protocol - IPv6

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Buffet Lunch & Meet Presenters

After lunch, the presenters will be available to discuss projects in details and provide demonstrations of their technology.

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