The doors open at 9.00am and there will be coffee and tea available on arrival. There will be a collection of embedded industry vendors exhibiting, available to discuss their technology. A Buffet Lunch will be provided and you will then have the opportunity to speak with the sponsors of the event and to view demonstrations of various embedded technology and tools. For more information on exhibitors and presenters.. click here

Throughout the event, Dr Nigel Day from Polyhedra will be available to present and discuss the Polyhedra Embedded Database which is widely used in embedded systems within the wireless space.

Cache analysis – what will it do for me ?

Time: 10.00 - 10.45

Richard Copeman - Lauterbach

On high speed processors the efficient usage of the cache will increase system speed and decrease power consumption as the processor undertakes more operations internally.

This presentation will discuss how the Lauterbach cache analysis tool provides an accurate analysis of the cache performance with a full log of all hits, misses and victims. This allows the developer to alter the code mapping and even adjust the cache structure to evaluate potential areas of improvement. Mobile equipment developers have already used this technique to achieve savings on power consumption and typical performance gains of 20%.

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Realtime OS Architecture - Meeting the Demands of Mobile Phone Development

Time: 10.45 - 11.30

Mats Svensson - Consultant , Enea Embedded Technology

The OSE realtime operating system has been at the forefront of mobile phone development. It exists in several hundred million mobile phones and in over 50% of the worlds basestations. The latest version of OSE, version 5.1, has been developed to meet the needs of the major mobile developers fighting for market share in the 3G space.

Mats Svensson has been a consultant with Enea since 1998. After his M. Sc. education at Lund Institute of Technology in Lund, Sweden, Mats has spent several years working with the OSE operating system in large-scale mobile telephone projects. Mats currently works as Enea's technical representative in OMTP, a market-wide initiative to create an open mobile telephone platform.

The presentation will cover these topics:

* A small and compact kernel. OSE offers simplicity in your design and a small footprint.
* Support for multi-CPU platforms in a mixed DSP-ARM environment.
* Demand-paging solution for NAND flash devices.

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Handset Software: Testing, Bugs, Security and the Development Life Cycle

Time: 11.45 - 12.30

Adam Mackay - IPL

The pace of development in the handset industry is staggering. In this competitive environment it is all too common to rush the final stages of a project to gain the first-to-market advantage.  In the traditional software development model testing, usually the last phase of the project, is the most likely activity to suffer.

To combat this, analysts recommend that companies invest in processes and solutions that move the detection of defects and security vulnerabilities earlier in the development life cycle. Static analysis solutions which provide defect detection as they happen in the source code development phase of the life cycle are a good investment.  Likewise design for testability and effective integration testing building on early unit testing helps reduce the criticality of the final testing stage.

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Buffet Lunch

Time: 12.30 - 1.30

Also a chance to meet with the presenters and view demonstrations of their technology.

Mobile trends and Next Generation Architectures

Time: 1.30 - 2.15

Rob Coombes - ARM Ltd


This presentation looks at trends in mobile device architecture and
covers some of the new solutions available to embedded designers. An
overview of architectures and technologies being used in next generation
portable devices/handsets is covered and how this enables higher
performance with low power and small silicon footprint. In addition to
performance, new requirements are driving the need for system level
solutions to enhanced security and energy management. The trend towards
virtual prototyping will be discussed and the role of physical IP in
creating product differentiation.

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Bringing UML Modelling to Mobile Phone Development

Time: 2.15 - 3.00

Julia Morrish - Telelogic Ltd

The latest major revision of the Unified Modeling Language (UML 2.0) includes abstractions to better deal with architectures and component-based development. UML allows you to define components from multiple perspectives, but in particular from a usage and an implementation point of view. In the usage view, you access a component through its externally published services, while its internal implementation is hidden. These defined interfaces enable you to combine it with other products or components. The introduction of parts, ports, and connectors provides very useful abstractions when designing components, allowing you to wire components together. We will show how these new abstractions can be utilized and how the different views complement each other to capture different aspects of a system.

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Television in Your Pocket

Time: 3.15 - 4.00

Steve Dingle - MPC-Data

Not long ago, the idea of delivering quality content to mobile devices such as PDAs and mobile telephones was little more than a dream. With the release of the DVB-H standard as ETSI EN 302 304 and companies such as Nokia demonstrating devices like the 7700, a whole world of opportunities is opened to developers and service providers.

The DVB standards group has a dedicated technical and commercial group looking at the technical needs of all interested parties.

This talk looks at the work taking place on the DVB-H standard and the possibilities it offers network service provides, broadcasters and handset manufacturers to develop future revenue streams.

Steve Dingle is MPC-Data's Digital Broadcast Technologies specialist. Steve has 15 years experience in the broadcast and has represented a number of organizations including Pioneer and ST Micro on the DVB standards group. MPC Data has recently joined the DVB and both Steve and Frank Breezly are nominated representatives.

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