Presentation 50,51

Presentation 50

Wireless Management and Securty in Multiple Computing Environments
Drew Tick CEO
Code Red Systems

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"Always On" and "Mobility" are key buzzwords today. While this may be desirable for improved productivity, wireless communiations from multiple computing environments is a serious challenge for IT professionals. Technological history has shown that the first step with any new technology is market penetration. After the technology has become "commoditized" the challenge then becomes one of management and security. This was true regarding the origins of "wired" LANs and is certainly true today in terms of wireless LANs. With the continued and rapid growth of wireless LANs, new challenges have arisen for securing and managing, not only the network-side wireless access points, but also the client-side wireless devices.

Disparate technologies are avaialable for solving these problems, but IT professionals are looking for unified and integrated solutions for all their wireless management and security requirements. Code Red Systems or Jerusalem, Israel has implemented an innovative software architecture which provides for secure management for both network-side and client-side devices, flexibility for multiple computing environments and most important, adaptability for eguipment from multiple vendors. Understanding the emerging challanges of wireless security and management is the key to implementing technology which comes to solve these problems in real computing environments.

The company's experience in varied environments and with equipment from multiple vendor's gives a good understanding of the challenges that lay ahead for wireless communications and suggests what technological innovations are required to meet these challanges.

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Presentation 51
ASIC Development Methodology To Significantly Reduce Time To Market
Ophir Nadir
Chip X

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System designers are commonly using FPGAs as a method to prototype their systems and accelerate system verification. This method has two limitations:

(1) it often requires a dedicated system hardware platform to accommodate the FPGA
(2) it is associated with a time-consuming conversionprocess from an FPGA to an ASIC. ChipX's OnePassTM system, along with its Structured ASIC methodology, overcomes both limitations and provides the following capabilities:

・Leverages the flexibility of FPGAs
・Fits in the same footprint as the final ASIC
・Uses the same PHY as the target Structured ASIC, eliminating the risk of mixed signal integration
・System hardware is designed once, having targeted the ASIC socket right from the onset.
・System software development commences on the basis of the OnePass
・verification / emulation system.
・OnePass
・development flow allows rapid migration to an ASIC, eliminating the need for a timely conversion.

About ChipX ChipX is a privately held fabless semiconductor company providing custom ASIC solutions. It has a core competency in Structured ASIC technology, combining logic with analog building blocks on the same piece of silicon.

The company is known for its innovative ASIC emulation approach to assist system development and verification, and for implementing customer designs months faster than traditional ASIC methods, and at a substantially reduced risk. The company ASIC platforms that integrate the world's first USB2.0 Structured offers 130nm ASIC family and broadest offering of Structured ASICs with embedded PCI Express sub-systems. ChipX has completed hundreds of Structured ASIC designs to date.