January 25, 2008

Call for Papers: MPF 2008 Japan

By Max Baron

The results of our audience survey in Japan are in! The areas of interest this year are clearly defined by the vote of hundreds of respondents. Receiving an overwhelming majority of votes are digital entertainment systems and chips everywhere—at home, in the automobile, and in handheld and cellular applications. Thus, the theme for In-Stat's International MPF 2008 is "Digital Entertainment At Home and On the Move."

Forum hosts EDN Japan, a part of Reed Electronics Group, and In-Stat, publisher of Microprocessor Report and part of Reed Business Information in the U.S.—invite you to submit proposals for announcements and in-depth technical presentations at the International Microprocessor Forum 2008, to be held July 16­17, 2008, at the Aoyama Diamond Hall in Omotesando, Tokyo, Japan.

Speakers at MPF 2008 will have the opportunity to participate in the industry's most important event for launching new processors, systems on a chip, entire systems, and applicable software. With an audience expected to consist almost entirely of design engineers and managers, your presentation must include significant technical detail. It should preferably include new information not previously disclosed. First-time disclosures will be given preference.

As always, audience interest is very high in embedded systems, processors, DSPs, SoCs, reconfigurable computers and specific processors, and software targeting digital-entertainment workloads. Areas of interest also include entire systems and processors; SoCs and related technologies for PCs, workstations, and servers involved in generating, recording, transcoding, storing, or playing any form of visual and audio applications; and game graphics for the consumer at home and on the move.

With consumer applications driving a majority of the innovation taking place in design processing, we are actively seeking speakers who can provide technical insights into the following product areas that can be applied to digital processing and storage of video, audio, still images, and graphics:

• Multicore processors and enabling technologies

• Breakthrough technologies for future semiconductor design and manufacturing

• Entire dedicated systems, plus overviews of system and application software

• Responses to changing customer preferences: accelerators or programmable processors

• PC and server processors

• Dedicated, embedded systems for home and mobile entertainment electronics

• Entertainment systems enabled by 4G cellular bandwidth

• Low-power embedded processor cores

• High-performance microcontrollers

• High-performance embedded processor cores

• Imaging and video DSPs

• Video-game processors

• Graphic chips that can also be used for high-performance computing

• Systems on a chip (SoC)

• Intellectual property in entertainment: cores, buses, I/O, codecs, software

All presentation proposals will be kept strictly confidential. Proposals may be preceded or accompanied by appropriate nondisclosure agreements.

Please send all proposals to Ms. Sally Pena with copy to Max Baron. Ms. Pena's phone in the U.S.: +1-408-345-1622; email: sally.pena@reedbusiness.com. Max Baron's phone in the U.S.: +1-408-773-9677; email: mbaron@reedbusiness.com and MaxMBaron@aol.com.

The deadline for proposals is March 1, 2008.

Please direct logistics and Japan-sponsorship questions to Ms. Mutsumi Shioyama, our event manager in Japan: phone, +81-3-5775-6017; email, m.shioyama@reedbusiness.jp.

Elsewhere, please direct sponsorship questions to Ms. Elaine Potter. Phone in the U.S., +1-480-483-4441; email, epotter@reedbusiness.com.

Please direct content, topics, and technical questions to Max Baron (contact information above).