Analog Devices European 'Design Conference 2013' Open For Registration

Based on the theme “Discuss. Design. Deliver.,” the new ADI design conferences will bring together experts in high-performance analog, field-programmable gate arrays and modeling tools to present complete signal chain and system-ready solutions for complex design challenges, explains Pascal Cerruti, director of marketing programs, EMEA, at Analog Devices. Engineers attending Design Conference 2013 will leave with practical knowledge and understanding of new products and solutions they can use in their designs. Experts from multiple engineering disciplines will lead the conferences and instruct engineers on advanced techniques of high-performance signal processing, reference designs and systems applications. The European Design Conference 2013 series will lay the emphasis on hands-on demonstrations and on topics relevant to regional challenges, like precision industrial and high-speed RF applications.“

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More dates will be announced in September, October and November for additional ADI Design Conference editions in Germany, France, United Kingdom, Italy, Scandinavia, Eastern Europe and Israel.

More than ever, analog and digital engineers are required to design across the entire signal chain in order to meet today’s intense time-to-market pressures,” said Raj Seelam, director of Solutions Marketing at Xilinx. “Xilinx and Analog Devices have worked together to co-develop kits and reference designs that combine FPGAs, data converters and high-speed serial interconnects for easier system integration and faster time to market. Educational conferences such as these, extend our collaboration and help designers better meet the demands of multi-channel, data-intensive applications in industrial, healthcare, communications and other markets.”

Each day-long conference will include live demonstrations and 16 technical sessions addressing a wide range of technology areas and application solutions in industries such as aerospace and defense, high-speed RF communications, process control, motor control and instrumentation. The conferences are designed to highlight the latest technology and signal processing innovations as well as real-world system level reference applications and tools, showing how that technology can be rapidly applied within the broader ecosystem.

“When connecting a high-speed analog module to an FPGA platform, the right design tools are critical for developing systems efficiently,” said Ken Karnofsky, senior strategist, Signal Processing, MathWorks. “During the conference, attendees will learn how MATLAB and Simulink can be used to develop, model and deploy high-performance signal processing systems.”

An overview of key topics covered:

Conference highlights include:

•Technical sessions running throughout the day, delivered by the experts
•Live demo exhibition of ADI, partner and sponsor technology solutions
•Collaboration on complex ecosystems involving analog, FPGAs/embedded processing and software modeling tools

Technical Sessions:

Advanced Techniques of Higher Performance Signal Processing
•System Partitioning & Design
•Signal Chain Designer: A New Way to Design Online
•Data Conversion: Hard Problems Made Easy
•Amplify, Level Shift & Drive Precision Systems
•Frequency Synthesis and Clock Generation for High-Speed Systems
•Sensors for Low Level Signal Acquisition
•High Speed & RF Design Considerations
•Data & Power Isolation

Reference Designs & System Applications
•High Speed ADC FMC Rapid Development Board
•Process Control Systems
•Rapid Prototyping with Xilinx Solutions
•Instrumentation - Liquid & Gas Sensing
•MATLAB and Simulink for Communications System Design
•Instrumentation: Test & Measurement Methods and Solutions
•Integrated Software Defined Radio
•Motor Control