11.1 PANEL SESSION – Multicore, Will Startups Drive Innovation? (Multicore Applications Special Day)
Organiser:
A Jerraya, CEA-LETI, FR
Moderator:
R Ernst, TU Braunschweig, DE
Panellists:
Heterogeneous Multicore – N Topham, Edinburgh, UK
Multicore for Wireless - D Pulley, Picochip, UK
Processor Array for Consumer – M Harrand, Kalray, FR
General Purpose Multicore – J Goodacre, ARM, UK
Flexible Multicore Architectures – G Martin, Tensilica, US
Power of Classic FPGA – Y Tanurhan, Actel, US
Multicore solution is a need imposed by both technology and market constraints to replace a large part of FPGA and ASIC products for the embedded system market. So far, many solutions featuring a variety of ad-hoc hardware and software multicore architectures have been developed mainly by startups. No clear winning solution has emerged so far to conquer a significant part of this fast growing market. The panel will present the most promising products and solutions and discuss the winning strategy to market.
