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Embedded Systems Conference Boston 2005

Register Now for the FREE Hands-On Workshops hosted by Xilinx and Avnet! To pre-register see the email aliases listed below the Workshop information.

The Embedded Systems Conference Boston will be held at the Hynes Convention Center with the Xilinx Booth #501 open Tuesday and Wednesday September 13-14.

Reception:
Join Xilinx and Avnet at our booth reception Tuesday 9/13 at 5pm

Fast and Flexible Embedded Processing - FREE Hands-On Workshops
Attendees can register for one of two different in-booth workshops where you will get hands-on experience building basic embedded systems based on the flexible MicroBlaze soft processor core, or the high performance PowerPC hard processor core. The workshops include configuration of IP and bussing, leading to booting an embedded design on a real hardware development platform. Each session is 60 minutes long.

PowerPC Workshop: High Performance Design with the Embedded PowerPC™ and Co-Processor Code Accelerators

PowerPC Abstract: Today’s designers are constrained by space, power, and cost, and simply can not afford to implement embedded designs with Pentium class computers. Fortunately, in embedded systems, the greatest computational requirements are frequently determined by a relatively small number of algorithms. This hands-on workshop will demonstrate how to build a high performance embedded PowerPC system, and how computationally intensive tasks can be rapidly converted through design automation tools into hardware co-processors. These co-processors can then be efficiently interfaced to the offloaded PowerPC yielding “Pentium class performance.”

PowerPC Schedule: Tues 9/13 – 12noon, 2:30pm & 5pm, 9/14 – 11:15am & 1:45pm

MicroBlaze Workshop: Learn To Build and Optimize a MicroBlaze Soft Processor System in Minutes

MicroBlaze Abstract: In this workshop you will learn how to assemble a complete MicroBlaze soft processor system including peripherals. We will then compile a FIR filter application and profile the performance of this application. Next we will modify the base processor architecture to make the processor more efficient for this algorithm and reprofile the same application to examine the improvement in performance.

Schedule: Tues 9/13 – 1:15pm & 3:45pm, 9/14 – 10am, 12:30pm & 3pm

** To apply to register for these FREE first-come, first-serve Workshops, please submit the following contact information to the email aliases listed for each workshop below **

Email Aliases:
PowerPC Workshop = ppc_esc_workshop@xilinx.com
MicroBlaze Workshop = microblaze_esc_workshop@xilinx.com

Contact Info Required:
Email address, Lastname, Firstname, Session Choice, Company, Phone, & Full Address

Demand is high, so please limit yourself to one workshop submission only. Confirmations will be sent out Sept 5-9, the week prior to ESC Boston.

Live Demonstrations:
Xilinx will have multiple demonstrations stands exhibiting a wide variety of embedded solutions, showcasing Virtex-4 APU and MicroBlaze 4.0 advances, and including:

• Virtex-4 FX FPGA devices with High Performance PowerPC processor cores, reference boards and complete development kits
• Low Cost & Flexible Embedded Processing with the Spartan-3 family of FPGAs utilizing MicroBlaze soft processor cores and new development kit bundles
• New Co-Processor technology to accelerate embedded applications
• Development Kits and Intelligent Tools to Accelerate Embedded Design, including the Award Winning Platform Studio Tool Suite and ChipScope Pro

ESC Technical Paper Presentations:
Xilinx distribution partners Avnet and newly aquired Memec will be presenting the following Xilinx FPGA technical papers at ESC-Boston:

Want more information about ESC-Boston, check out the official web site at: http://www.esconline.com/boston/

Exhibits-Only passes are FREE!

Exhibit Dates and Hours
Tuesday, September 13: 11:30am - 6:00pm
Wednesday, September 14: 10:00 am - 4:00pm

Xilinx at ESC Boston - Booth #501