[Updated 4pm PDT] — The Embedded Systems Conference is seeking 1- and 2-day programs for a 2-day Consumer Design seminar series during the 2005 Embedded Systems Conference, March 7-10 in San Francisco. The seminars will focus on design issues in emerging technology sectors including consumer, cellular, and networking.

An historic shift from analog to digital music and video is giving rise to a new generation of digital TVs and media servers, MP3 players of all sorts and home networks capable of streaming and storing digital media. The Consumer Systems Design seminar explores design issues in analog, DSP, compression, display and other technologies that are the key enablers for this sector.

Appropriate topic areas include:

• Advanced signal processing and filtering techniques for high quality digital audio/video playback
• Advances in integrated low-power processors, video, audio and graphics chips for digital audio and video devices
• Advances in LCD, plasma or other display technologies and the electronic subsystems that drive them
• Hardware requirements for supporting next-generation audio/video codecs, file formats and digital rights management software
• How to create interoperable home network products capable of handling media streaming with high quality of service
• Implementing next-generation systems interfaces and protocols for transferring and streaming quality digital audio/video
• Issues in incorporating next-generation flash and hard-disk storage in portable and wired consumer electronics devices
• Updates on progress in home networking standards and technologies

Abstracts are due by July 16th, 2004 and should be submitted here. Further details are available by contacting Kara Pistochini, Conferences and Events, CMP Media.

 
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