Designing Hard Drive and Flash Memory Based Multimedia Systems

Date: Wednesday, December 8, 11 AM PT / 2 PM ET

Abstract

The next generation of high-performance multimedia systems calls for a design that will enable advanced networking, storage and playback functionality. The use of hard drive and flash memory based systems delivers multimedia and filesystem technologies that meet the progressive requirements of radio, navigation, entertainment, and other media-enabled systems.

QNX Software Systems, Renesas Technology, and Simple Devices come together for this web seminar to discuss a framework to implement a hard drive based multimedia system. You will learn how to:

• Implement filesystem technology to easily network, store and replay music and media
• Implement low cost platforms that will rip, store and play back multimedia content
• Use digital media software that manages various content sources (CD, Flash, HDD, portable devices)
• Use digital media software that provides device connectivity to your desktop computer via a transfer device (SD-Card, Compact Flash, Portable Player) or a wireless connection and synchronizes content between the car and the home environment.

Speaker Biographies

Thomas Fletcher is director of automotive networking solutions at QNX Software Systems, where he has also worked as an OS kernel architect and as a development tools manager for an Eclipse-based IDE. His prior experience encompasses digital processing systems, speech algorithm design and development, ship-borne software for satellite weather information systems, and COTS components for networking equipment. A member of the IEEE, he holds a Bachelor's in Computer Engineering and is completing a Master's in Electrical and Computer Engineering, focused on real-time systems analysis.

Anand Ramamoorthy is currently the Director of System Solutions (Automotive Business Unit) at Renesas Technology America. Anand started his career as a GPS engineer and was involved in the design, development and marketing of GPS receivers for automotive applications. He has over 8 years of semiconductor research, engineering and marketing experience. He has spent the last 6 years working in the automotive domain and has intimate knowledge of GPS, Telematics, car navigation and wireless technologies. Anand has presented in numerous conferences and has participated in several panel discussions on telematics and mobile technologies. He has a B.S degree in engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, a M.S degree in Electrical Engineering and an MBA from Leavey School of Business (Santa Clara University).

Axel Fuchs has worked actively in the field of intelligent vehicles, embedded systems, wireless communications, mobile computing, digital media, and telematics for the past 18 years. He co-founded the Daimler-Chrysler Research and Technology office in Palo Alto, California, managed Systems Engineering and Technology Strategy at Motorola's Telematics Communications Group, and was Managing Partner at Cogenia Partners prior to joining SimpleDevices as Vice President of Business Development. Axel Fuchs graduated from Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany with a Doctorate in Electrical Engineering.

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