Surviving the Digital Signal Processing Technology "Inflection Point" - The Road to 3G
Mr. Paul Marino, Vice President and Director, DSP Core Technology Center, Semiconductor Products Group, Motorola.

With the market demand for DSP-based products exploding, DSP technology and industry business models are being redefined in order to address third-generation (3G) wireless and multimedia requirements. This lecture will focus, from the supplier's perspective, on the challenges in developing DSP technology, business models, and design methodology to meet the demands of the 3G wireless and multimedia applications. The lecture will begin by discussing the shift in DSP architecture development from considering only high-performance, low-power, and manufacturing process enhancements to enabling scalable, programmable, and configurable DSP cores. Moving then to discuss the once sacred customer-to-supplier relationships that is unfolding to more of a multiple customers, suppliers, 3rd parties, and foundries type relationships with intellectual properties considerations. Finally, the lecture will demonstrate how 3G requirements are forcing designers and programmers to look at solutions at a system level versus a component or modular one.

Paul Marino is vice president and director of Motorola's Digital Signal Processor (DSP) Core Technology Center Semiconductor Products Group responsible for developing DSP core processing engines and associated development tools. Prior to this, he was first operations manager for the cellular baseband products operation, then operations manager for the CDMA platform operation. He was a key contributor to the development of Motorola's first digital signal processor, the DSP56001. Marino holds BSEE and MSEE from Polytechnical Institute Bucharest in Romania and is based in Austin, Texas, USA. He has been with Motorola for 16 years.

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Voice-over-Packet: What is the Right Architecture Choice?
Moderated by Khrishna Yarlagadda, Hellosoft Corporation

Voice-over-Packet technology has been one of the hottest topics of this year and is a very fast-growing market segment for DSP. This plenary panel discussion, open to all attendees, will discuss and debate various architectural alternatives, trends, and choices in this area. Panelist will include top executives from the companies that are pushing the edge of this technology. Panel members include Bill Witowsky, senior vice president and chief technology officer, Telogy Networks, a Texas Instruments Company; Curtis Abott, vice president, Voice over Packet Products, PMC-Sierra, Inc.; Shahin Hedayat, president, Centillium Communications, and Shri Dodani, president and chief executive officer, VxTel Inc. The panel will touch on the current trends in V-o-P. Topics of discussion will include efficient configurations, fixed function versus programmable architectures, and the future role of compression.

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Wednesday, October 18
5:00pm – 5:15pm

Wednesday, October 18
5:15pm – 6:00pm

Wednesday, October 18
6:00pm – 17:00pm

Thursday, October 19
11:00am – 12:00pm

The Wireless Revolution: Signal Processing as the 'Great Enabler'
Dr. H. Vincent Poor, Professor of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University

During the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, communications underwent revolutionary changes as first the telegraph, and then the telephone, emerged and transitioned to wireless transmission. Now, at the advent of the Twenty-First Century, an even more revolutionary transition is taking place as the Internet moves into the wireless domain. Like its predecessors, today's wireless revolution is being made possible by major strides in electro-technology and particularly by striking innovations in signal processing methods and technology. This talk will provide an overview of some of these developments in the context of their impact on emerging and future wireless communications applications such as third-generation cellular telephony, broadband wireless local loop, etc.

Dr. Vincent Poor is Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University. Prior to joining the Princeton faculty in 1990, he was on the faculty of the University of Illinois and has also held visiting appointments at a number of universities and research institutes in the U.S., Britain and Australia. His research interests are in the area of statistical signal processing, with applications primarily in wireless multiple-access systems. Among his publications in this area is the 1998 book Wireless Communications: A Signal Processing Perspective. Poor is a Fellow of the IEEE and among his honors are the Terman Award of the ASEE, the Distinguished Member Award of the IEEE Control Systems Society, and the IEEE Third Millennium Medal.

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