Tensilica CTO Chris Rowen Presents at SDR'10 Thursday

Chris Rowen, Tensilica founder and chief technology officer, has been invited to present "Extensible Baseband DSPs, Tools and Multi-Core Architectures for Low-Power 4G SDR Silicon Platforms" at the upcoming SDR'10 event in Washington, D.C. SDR'10 focuses on reconfigurable radio technologies and Rowen's presentation will highlight Tensilica's second generation processor-based, multi-standard handset baseband reference architecture.

In addition, Rowen will participate in a panel discussion on "Comparing FPGA + C compilers with Multi-core Technology." This panel will look at the costs, programmability, performance, power, and time-to-market of multiprocessor designs versus FPGAs to see who will ultimately dominate future SDR platforms.

What/When:
"Extensible Baseband DSPs, Tools and Multi-Core Architectures for Low-Power 4G SDR Silicon Platforms"
Thursday, Dec. 2 at 3:25 p.m., Section 6A, Applications

"Comparing FPGA + C Compilers with Multi-core Technology"
Thursday, Dec. 2 at 5:10 p.m., Panel Session

Where:
SDR'10 will be held at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City in Washington, D.C. For more information, visit http://conference.wirelessinnovation.org

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