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Power Architecture Conference - Paris

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PAC DAY1 Schedule at a Glance

1:00-1:30PM Power.org Overview
Fawzi Behmann, Power.org Marketing Chair, Freescale Semiconductor
1:30-2:00PM AMCC Power Architecture Value & Market Applications
Brian Wilkie, VP Business development, Power Architecture, AMCC

2004 Brian joined AMCC in 2004 as VP and GM of the PowerPC® business which AMCC acquired from IBM. Having built up the team and the business, this has now been merged into the Integrated Communications Products Unit in order to maximize the benefit of PowerPC® across AMCC's product range. A native of Scotland, Brian spent 25 years with Motorola Semiconductor, first in Applications, then as European Marketing Manager for Microprocessors. In 1983 he moved to Austin, where he advanced to Vice President and General Manager of the Advanced Microcontroller Division.Mr. Wilkie holds a BSEE from Glasgow University in Scotland. He also holds several patents in the field of microcontroller architecture and timers.
1:30-2:00PM Freescale: A New Era for Power Architecture Development
Frederic Haine, GM, Network and Computing System Group Europe, Freescale Semiconductor

Frederic Haine, General Manager for the Network and Computing System Group (NCSG) Europe, is a 20-year semiconductor industry veteran. Frederic joint Motorola semiconductor in 1995 where he served as Global Account Sales director, director of Sales for NCSG Europe and Director of Application of sales for the Wireless and Broadband System Group. Before joining Freescale in 1995, Frederic Haine occupied several positions of increasing responsibility in operations, marketing and sales at Thomson semiconductor in France and Harris semiconductor (now Intersil) in the United States. Frederic Haine holds a master of sciences from Ecole Centrale de Paris-France timers.
2:30-3:00PM IBM & thePower ofCollaborative Innovation
Ray Bryant, IBM Director of Games and Power Architecture Solutions

Mr. Bryant’s current assignment is IBM Director of Games and Power Solutions within the Microelectronics Brand in IBM’s Systems and Technology Group. Mr. Bryant joined IBM in 1980 in East Fishkill, New York in process development for high performance multi-chip packaging. He has held a variety of positions across the Microelectronics Division and the Technology Group in IBM, including manager of Process Development, manager of System Quality Assurance, Design / Groundrules Manager, Director of Worldwide Packaging Applications, and Director of Emerging Product and Foundry Sales. Mr. Bryant received a Bachelor of Arts degree in chemistry from Cornell University of Ithaca, New York, and a Master of Science in organic chemistry from Iowa State University of Ames, Iowa.
3:00-3:15PM Coffee Break
3:15-3:45PMVirtutech Simics
Niklas Rudemo, Virtutech
3:45-4:00 Kontron Commitment to Power Architecture
Robert Negre, Kontron
4:00-4:15 It's All About the Models - Enabling Platform Mainstream Ecosystem
Markus Willems, Synopsys
4:15-6:30PM Reception, Demos, and Networking

PAC DAY 2 (Paris) Schedule at a Glance

Room	San Diego	San Francisco
7:30am - 8:30am	Registration
8:30am-8:45am	Technical Track Introduction Presenter:Syed Shah, Freescale, Data Path Architect andCo-Chair Power.Org Technical committee	SolutionsTrack Introduction Presenter: Fawzi Behmann, Freescale, Director of Strategic Marketing and Chair of Power.Org Marketing committee
8:45am-9:45am	Virtual Platform and Simulation Presenter: Kaveh Massoudian, IBM, Program Director, System Architecture and Design	AMCC - PowerPC and Implication on Small Form Factor Advanced Mezzanine Card (AMC)Design Presenter: Richard Zenkert, Field Application PowerPC specialist
9:45am-10:00am	Coffee Break
10:00am-10:45am	Synopsys- A New Era of Interoperability for Virtual Platforms Presenter: Markus Willems, Product Marketing Manager	Freescale - Power Architecture Solutions Presenter: Gerard Maniez, Sales Manager, Automotive Segment and Fawzi Behmann, Director of Strategic Marketing
10:45am-11:30am	Virtutech - Debugging Multicore Software Using Virtual Hardware Presenter: Dr Mikael Bergqvist, Senior Application Engineer	IBM - POWER6 & Microprocessor Core Overview Presenter: Jeff Stuecheli, IBM Hardware Architect
11:30am-1:30pm	Lunch/Demos in Tech Lab--San Francisco II
1:30pm-2:15pm	Embedded Power Architecture Platform Requirements (ePAPR) Presenter: Stuart Yoder, Freescale, Software Architect	Freescale - Dual-Core MPC8572 Virus Scanning and Deep Packet Inspection Presenter: Eric Bost, Senior Field Application Engineer for Power processors in Networking
2:15pm-3:00pm	Embedded Hypervisor Presenter: Christian Ehrhardt, IBM, Open Virtualization Development Engineer	Virtutech - Simics Accelerator -- Breakthrough in Virtualizing Large Power Architecture Systems Presenter:Dr Mikael Bergqvist, Senior Application Engineer
3:00pm-3:15pm	Coffee Break
3:15pm-4:00pm	Multi Core Enablement for Power ArchitectureTM Presenter: Nina Wilner, Software Architect IBM, Power.org Software Strategist	AMCC - Trends in Next Gen Networks and Implication on Processor Requirements Presenter: Craig Prunty, Field Application Engineer
4:00pm-4:45pm	Power.org Common Debug Interface Specifications Presenter: Chris Ng, IBM, Systems Architect Chair, Common Debug Interface TSC, Power.org	Kontron - PowerPC 970FX and Signal Processing Presenter: Robert Negre, CTO, Directeur Technique
4:45pm-5:30pm		IBM - Linux on Power and the IBM Linux Technology Center Presenter: Hugh Blemings, IBM Open Source Hacker

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