Sponsored by: OpenSystems Media and Conference ConCepts
FPGA Virtual Summit Featuring: 4 Webcasts Including “Ask the Experts” Panel Plus: Executive RoundTable Webcast on the Future of FPGAs
Reservations: February 12 Live Summit: March 18
Promoted to more than 100,000 engineers worldwide, plus coverage on
Here’s a new approach that packs in much more information than a single webinar but is more focused than a general embedded conference. The FPGA Virtual Summit presents five webcasts in a single day. Attendees participate throughout the day viewing the topics most relevant to them, without any travel cost or time and with complete freedom to enter or leave at will.
The first four themed technical sessions cover key topics for today’s FPGA design engineers, system architects, and engineering decision makers. Each of these four webcasts will wrap up with an “Ask the Experts” panel for attendees to ask their questions and network with vendors.
The fifth and final session of the day is the keynote Executive Round Table webcast, where Executives from the leading FPGA vendors will be discussing the “Future of FPGAs” in a Q&A session moderated by OpenSystems Media editorial directors Chris Ciufo and Don Dingee.
For the four themed technical sessions in the Virtual Summit, only three sponsorships each are available, and for the Executive Round Table keynote session only four sponsorships are available. Following are session descriptions and sponsorship packages, including details on video and white paper sponsorships in conjunction with the webinars.
Session Information
Keynote Session
Future of FPGAs (4 positions available) Executive Round Table: Key Elements in Your Design Future
Abstract: FPGAs will surely become even larger, faster, and cheaper. This session will explore both new replacement possibilities as well as new applications for ever more powerful devices. It will focus on where FPGAs will fit in the bag of tricks available to designers for creating fast-to-market, powerful, and flexible systems to meet needs and requirements far beyond what we can envision today. Executive panelists (C-level, VP, or Director titles) will give a short presentation, and then be questioned by the moderators who will drive an open and informative discussion on issues.
Themed Technical Sessions
Session #1 (3 positions available): DSPApplications: Improve your DSP designs with FPGAs Abstract: FPGAs are being used increasingly in DSP systems to improve performance by exploiting the massive parallelism available in programmable logic. This session focuses on solving DSP design problems and presents specific examples of innovative approaches to FPGA-based system design. The presentations focus on design results and demonstrate solutions for DSP applications. Both expert FPGA designers and newcomers will take away important lessons from the examples. Topics include application examples, algorithm implementation, low-cost devices, multicore processors, DSP libraries, and rapid prototyping platforms.
Session #2 (3 positions available): FPGA Design Tools: Get your FPGA designs to market faster Abstract: As FPGAs become larger and more complex, designing with them becomes more difficult and more time-consuming. Furthermore, many people with limited design backgrounds are looking to use FPGAs in a variety of applications. This session explores ways to simplify and automate FPGA design, shorten design cycles, and handle problems such as timing closure, configuration, and security. The emphasis is on general approaches that apply to a wide range of current devices and are scalable to future devices as well.
Session #3 (3 positions available): FPGAs in Communications:
The keys to next-generation network equipment Abstract: FPGAs can serve many purposes in communications and networking. They can implement interfaces such as PCI Express or USB, perform complex algorithms, handle protocols such as Ethernet or Fibre Channel, or even completely replace processors. They are particularly useful in situations involving high-speed communications methods based on standards that are still being finalized, revised, or re-interpreted. They provide the flexibility required to handle evolving demands while still offering hardware rather than software speeds. This session explores examples of communications applications, implementation methods, design approaches, and verification.
Session #4 (3 positions available): FPGA Verification: Do you see what I see? Abstract: As FPGAs increase in density and complexity, debugging and verifying them has grown exponentially more difficult, affecting design productivity and creating significant time-to-market delays. New verification and debugging approaches are necessary to bridge the gap between complex FPGAs and the relatively simple design tools that are typically available. This tutorial highlights the state of the art in debugging FPGAs and provides audience members with a roadmap of methodologies and tools to harness today’s sophisticated chips and gain a competitive advantage for their organizations.
Sponsorship Information
Event Schedule, March 18th, 2010
Session
Title
Time
Keynote
Exec. Round Table: Future of FPGAs
4:30 PM
#1
DSP Applications
10:00 AM
#2
FPGA Design Tools
11:30 AM
#3
FPGAs in Communications
1:00 pm
#4
FPGA Verification
2:30 pm
All times are noted in EST.
Gold Package:
Keynote and Technical Session
Keynote session, plus select 1 webcast session from event schedule
2 positions available: $7000*
*Includes 10 minutes of presentation time in each event, all leads, archived for 2 years, 2 white papers with lead generation
Silver Package:
Keynote only 4 positions available (pending Gold sponsors): $4500*
*Includes 10 minutes of presentation time, all leads, archived for 2 years, 1 white paper with lead generation
Bronze Package:
Technical Session only
Select 1 webcast session from event schedule, not including Keynote 12 positions available (pending Gold sponsors): $3500
*Includes 10 minutes of presentation time, leads from selected session, archived for 2 years
Contributor Package:
White Paper or Video Only 5 Positions available: $2000
*Includes 1 white paper or video with lead generation, promoted with virtual event
Coverage in the DSP-FPGA.com E-letter
With a limited number of sponsorships available for each session, slots will go quickly.
