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Monday
9:00 AM - 10:20 AM
January 12, 2009 |
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2009
Opening
Keynote
Hans Rijns
NXP
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ABSTRACT
Innovating
the TV Design Space
Innovating
the TV Design Space - by Hans Rijns, NXP Semiconductors
The fierce competition in the consumer electronics industry
drives the evolution of Digital TV in terms of performance
and price more than ever. Consumers expect crystal clear
and sparkling picture quality on their very large and
ultra-thin flat screens, independent of the quality
of input signals that may vary from poor "YouTube" quality
to full-HD. Furthermore, they want full flexibility
in watching and recording multiple channels simultaneously
from a growing number of sources; terrestrial, cable,
satellite, internet and personally generated content
from their own mobile devices. These challenges need
to be faced within even more stringent constraints:
the fast growing environmental awareness makes people
want their next TV sets to consume far less electric
power than today and of course be realized at continously
lowered price levels. This poses a wealth of innovation
challenges on set makers as well as on TV IC manufacturers.
In his keynote presentation Hans Rijns will address
exciting developments in three areas of the TV IC design.
He will elaborate on the latest wideband multi-channel
receiver technology: a single tuner solution that combines
wideband signal reception with parallel digital channel
decoding. It provides full watching and recording flexibility,
at lower cost levels than offered by conventional single
channel receivers. On the video processing end he will
show how low quality video input signals can be enhanced
to high quality motion pictures by the application of
new smart algorithms. On the display processing side,
he will provide insight in the energy characteristics
of the image processing sequence for different types
of LCD-TV displays and explain how active backlight
dimming technologies can yield huge power savings, at
even enhanced picture quality
BIOGRAPHY
Hans Rijns is Vice President and Manager Research at
NXP, the independent semiconductor company founded by
Philips. Hans is responsible for all applications, systems,
circuits and process technology research programs at
NXP. In this role, he is part of the NXP Corporate Innovation
and Technology management team headed by Rene Penning
de Vries. He started his professional career in 1991
at Philips Research as scientist in the area of discrete-time
mixed-signal circuits. In 1996 he moved to Philips Semiconductors
and held various technical and business management positions
mainly in the field of baseband and multimedia products
for the wireless market. Since 2006, he proceeded to
executive management positions in NXP Research. Hans
holds an M.Sc. and Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from
the University of Twente, the Netherlands.
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Monday
12:20 PM - 2:10 PM
January 12, 2009
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2009 Monday
Luncheon
Keynote
Robert Blake
Altera Corporation
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BIOGRAPHY
Robert Blake
Vice President
Automotive and Consumer Business Unit
Robert Blake is the vice president of the Automotive and
Consumer Business Unit at Altera Corporation. Mr. Blake
is responsible for defining Altera's programmable logic
product solutions for applications in the automotive and
consumer market segments. He has been developing ASIC
and programmable logic for high speed network applications
for over 17 years. Prior to Altera he worked at LSI Logic
and Fairchild where he worked developing ASIC technology.
He holds a MEng. in Business and Microelectronics and
BSc. in Applied Physics & Electronics from the University
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Tuesday
12:00 Noon - 2:20 PM
January 13, 2009
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2009
IEEE
Masaru Ibuka
Awards
Luncheon
Keynote
Hideharu Amano
Keio University, Japan
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ABSTRACT
Dynamically Reconfigurable Processors - flexible off-loading
engines for Consumer Electronics- Abstract: Dynamically
Reconfigurable Processors have been started to be utilized
as an off-load engine for various types of System-on-Chips
(SoCs) in consumer electronics. In order to achieve better
area- and power-efficiency compared with traditional field-programmable
devices such as FPGAs, they incorporate the following
properties; (1) a simple coarse grained processor, and
(2) dynamic reconfiguration of the PE array which enables
time-multiplexed execution is introduced. Some of them
provide multiple sets of configuration data called hardware
contexts and switch them in one or a few clock cycles,
and others can change its configuration in several micro
seconds. Especially in Japan, some of them are embedded
in real commercial products like portable video games
and printers.
BIOGRAPHY
Hideharu Amano Professor of Keio University, Japan Hideharu
Amano received the Ph.D degree from Keio University in
1986. He was a visiting assistant professor in Stanford
Univ. CSL from 1989 to 1990. He is currently a professor
in the Dept. of Information and Computer Science, Keio
University. His research interests include the area of
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Wednesday
8:00 AM- 8:30 AM
January 14, 2009 |
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2009
Closing Keynote Breakfast
Tom
Coughlin
Coughlin
Associates
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ABSTRACT
Adventures in Speaking
(My Year as a CE Society Distinguished Lecturer)
During 2008 Tom Coughlin was a distinguished lecturer
for the IEEE Consumer Electronics Society. He gave his
talk titled "Storing Your Life" about digital storage
in consumer electronics at CE Society chapters in Singapore,
Hong Kong, Russia, England, Ireland and at George Washington
University. In addition he gave the same talk to groups
in Germany and at the Unversity of California, San Diego
as well as the Unversity of California, Santa Cruz. Altogether
over 300 people attended these talks. Tom will talk about
his experiences as a world traveller and representative
of the CE Society as well as share his thoughts of how
to be an effective distinguished lecturer.
Tom Coughlin
Coughlin Associates
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Wednesday
12:20 PM- 2:10 PM
January 14, 2009
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2009
Closing Keynote
Ranga
Yogeshwar
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ABSTRACT
Generation "New"- Does Innovation Change Our Culture?
At any time in history we have seen a comparable transition
within society. Today the speed of innovation has reached
a critical pace: Mobile communication, broadband internet,
new media etc. have changed our life in a fundamental
way. The generation gap is widening and new global business
structures challenge our traditional models. Leaps in
innovation induce disorientation within enterprises and
in societies. How is innovation changing our culture?
BIOGRAPHY
Since 1987 Ranga Yogeshwar has been active as Science
Editor at WDR-Germany TV, the nationwide German TV-network
of public rights. Between 1995 and 2001, he was Acting
Chief and between 2001 and 2005 the Chief of the Science
TV Programme Group at WDR. Ranga has over 1000 TV shows
and many Radio presentations to his credit. He is author/co-author
of several newspaper and magazine columns and articles
in learned periodicals. He is engaged in many national
and international projects and is member of boards and
committees of institutions in the fields of Science, Education
and Knowledge Propagation. He received many awards and
decorations for his work in the field of science communication.
In 2008 he founded his company xplainy. Ranga holds degree
of Diplomphysiker in experimental particle physics and
astrophysics from Aachen University, Germany. His hobbies
centre around the family, music and astronomy (MPC-Code
B43). The asteroid 20522, discovered by André Knöfel in
September 1999 has been named after him. Ranga Yogeshwar
is married to the classical soprano singer Ursula Müller.
They have four children and live close to Hennef near
Cologne, Germany.
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