Sensors Expo 2008
Held June 9-11 in Rosemont, Ill., this year’s Sensors Expo & Conference offered a rich technical program and a floor of fascinating exhibits. Nearly 200 exhibitors participated, introducing the latest wireless controllers, thermometers, glucose monitors, automotive subsystems, industrial automation systems, oil pressure gauges, smoke alarms, manufacturing materials, and other technologies.
International Microwave Symposium 2008/MTT-S
The IEEE’s International Microwave Symposium (IMS2008), sponsored by the Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) is being held in Atlanta, June 15-20. The show, which has been growing each year, is more relevant than ever. While microwave radio was once relegated to the radar, electronic warfare, long distance telephone relay, and satellites fields, today microwave is mainstream wireless.
Design Automation Conference (DAC)
Last week's 45th Design Automation Conference (DAC) in Anaheim was my twelfth consecutive DAC, and it was surely the most interesting and different I've experienced in journalistic terms. Yeah, that was me traipsing around the show floor with my colleague Damian Mendez in tow, toting a great big video camera. It was my first experience in documenting DAC in video, and I would term it a success.
Medical Design and Manufacturing East
One would be hard pressed to dispute that Medical Design & Manufacturing East is the world's largest conference and exhibition for medical manufacturing and related products. Taking up nearly one third of the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City, the event featured over 1,000 exhibitors from every area of the healthcare market.
PCIM Europe
Paul Whytock and the Electronic Design Europe team where at the PCIM power electronics exhibition and conference in Nuremberg, Germany, talking to companies and filming some of the hot technologies being unveiled at the show. This event attracted around 250 companies from the power electronics sector and the technologies on show included, power semiconductor and power management products, thermal management, power supplies, DSPs, microprocessors; in fact pretty much all the electronics relating to the accurate and efficient use of power.
Society for Information Display (SID)
The Society for Information Display's (SID) annual international convention and exhibition opens Sunday at the Los Angeles Convention Center for an expected 9500 engineers and scientists. The event is devoted to electronic information displays and it is a place to learn from the experts about the "hows" and "whys" of display device operation.
International Electronics Forum (IEF)
The 17th annual International Electronics Forum, held in Dubai, UAE, opened with a brief introduction and welcome by Malcolm Penn, Chairman and CEO of Future Horizons (www.futurehorizons.com). He began by thanking the Dubai Silicon Oasis Authority (DSOA) and H.H Sheikh Ahmed Bin Saeed Al Maktoum, Chairman of DSOA, for their Forum support and sponsorship (for more on DSO, take a look at the videos we have on this site).
ESC 2008
The Embedded Systems Conference is coming up soon and it looks to be even better than last year—despite the downturn in the economy. Not even flagging home sales could deter the number of announcements and new products. I’ll be covering a lot more from the show, but here are a number of items that have been made available ahead of time. Also, check out Developers Refine Their Embedded Wares For ESC for more pre-ESC content.
CTIA 2008
f you are looking for a way to learn all the latest cell phone technologies and find out who is doing what in this dynamic field, the CTIA conference in Las Vegas April 1–3 is your best bet. While the Mobile World Congress show in Barcelona is the largest cell phone show in the world, CTIA is the largest in the U.S. and is expected to have 40,000-plus attendees and over 1200 exhibitors. This is the larger show of the two CTIA puts on each year. If you want to immerse yourself in the cell phone business for a couple of days this is the place to be.
DesignCon 2008
DesignCon 2008 attracted engineering professionals from various levels and disciplines representing many aspects of electronic design: applications engineering, architecture and systems design, ASIC design, circuit-board design, embedded-systems design, hardware/software integration, high-performance systems, IC design, packaging, semiconductor product management, service and support, SoC design, software development, testing and debugging, and more.
Embedded World 2008
The Electronic Design Europe team will be reporting again from Embedded World 2008 in Nuremberg. Our coverage will include video interviews with technologists exhibiting and demonstrating some of the most cutting-edge embedded electronic developments.
APEC 2008
IEEE’s APEC is the power industry’s premier tradeshow and convention. This year’s event, held in Austin, Texas from Feb. 24 to Feb. 28, was no exception. (APEC 2009 will be in Washington, D.C.) As a trade-press editor, I go to APEC to track trends and to learn about the dozens of new devices and ICs introduced there. Here’s a look at what I took away from the sessions and the tradeshow floor.
Mobile World Congress 2008
The Mobile World Congress put on by the GSM Association is where those in the cell phone business come together each year here in Barcelona. All the various players are here—buyers and sellers from carriers to basestation vendors, handset manufacturers, chip companies, software companies and anything in between. It is a real show, one of the largest in the world.
Power Electronics Technology 2007
Through its professional advancement courses, seminars, and technical sessions, the PET Conference equips power electronics engineers with practical instructions and advanced information on the latest power component technologies and system design techniques. The conference delivers a wealth of information on a host of new and emerging applications and technology topics in the power electronics field. Best of all, it gives design engineers an invaluable opportunity to discuss their design engineering issues and challenges with leading experts in all areas of the power electronics field through the PACs, conference seminars, general sessions, networking receptions, "Birds of a Feather" brainstorming... and more!
CDNLive! CDNLive! is a global series of technical conferences where Cadence® technology users and other industry experts network and exchange ideas. At CDNLive! events, you have a unique opportunity to strengthen business relationships and discover holistic solutions to your design challenges. You'll be among the industry's brightest to share best practices, learn about the latest electronics and semiconductor design trends, and see new solutions and technology roadmaps from Cadence.
PCIM 2007
Spring is always a great time of year to visit the German City of Nuremberg. Thus, attending the world’s most important power electronics technology event becomes even more enjoyable. Not surprisingly, the PCIM (Power Conversion Intelligent Motion) Conference and Exhibition in Nuremberg attracts close to 300 power electronics companies from around the world. More than half will of those be from countries other than Germany—it is truly international.
APEC 2007
The Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), held February 25 to March 1, 2007 in Anaheim, Calif., saw a number of innovations in the power industry. Electronic Design Analog/Power Editor Don Tuite reports from the conference, where two of the most significant trends were revealed: the extension of PMBus from, a mere chip-to-chip protocol to something that allows interaction for diagnostics and control between server software and the power supplies that make server blades work, and hardware availability for DrMOS power-regulator modules that will power for all future PCs and laptops with Intel chips.
Embedded Systems Conference 2007
Don't expect the same old stuff at the 2007 Embedded Systems Conference, scheduled for April 1-5 at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, Calif. This year's show will be virtually bursting at the seams, with many vendors setting up shop outside the main exhibit hall. Vendors seem to be cautiously optimistic, now that issues like the European Union's Restrictions on Hazardous Substances (RoHS) are being addressed and the latest standards-based technologies like Serial ATA (SATA) and PCI Express are commonplace. In fact, this optimism has triggered the return of numerous exhibitors and attracted a host of new vendors.
Embedded World 2007
With 570 exhibiting companies on show, the Embedded World event in Nuremberg is now considered the world leader for this technology. Paul Whytock reports on the latest technology being shown. Exhibits span a range of embedded electronics developments that include; embedded design processes and tools, operating systems, automotive and control applications and communication systems, to mention just a few. Whether your interests lie with the latest Intel dual core developments through to innovative embedded software applications make sure to take a look at our on-line editorial reports and on-line video interviews with some of the embedded experts at the show.
CES 2007
The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) needs no introduction. Over past 40 years, some of the most revolutionary consumer electronics have debuted at CES, including the VCR, the camcorder, Microsoft’s Xbox, and the plasma TV. What makes these products revolutionary? Electonic Design goes behind the scenes to find out where the consumer electronics industry is headed, what technologies will drive tomorrow’s innovations, and what developments designers can use to during product definition and design to differentiate their products.
electronica 2006
The electronica 2006 Showcase from Electronic Design is designed to provide electronic design engineers with electronica 2006 show news, product information, vendor interviews and show announcements as soon as they happen. At electronica 2006(November 14-17) in Munich, Germany, Paul Whytock, Editor-in-Chief of Electronic Design Europe and Mark David Editor-in-Chief of Electronic Design will be reporting daily news and views direct from the show for the electronic design community.
Boston Embedded Systems Conference 2006
The Boston Embedded Systems Conference was the largest and most interesting since the start of the decade. Everything is going real time and mobile these days from slot cars to
handheld multimedia devices. Tag along while Embedded Technology Editor Bill Wong presents
from of the highlights at the show.
