Embedded Vision Insights: February 26, 2013 Edition

Dear Colleague,

I began the previous edition of Embedded Vision Insights with the words, "I'm pleased when I'm able to regularly pass along announcements about new Embedded Vision Alliance members, and lately I've been pretty pleased." In that particular edition, for example, I mentioned that GEO Semiconductor had just joined the Alliance. Two weeks earlier, I'd told you about the then-latest member, Tensilica.

Well, I'm thankfully still feeling pleased! This time, in fact, I have the pleasure of telling you about two new Alliance members. FireFly DSP is a developer of processor IP cores and associated software development tools, whose management team has a substantive semiconductor and software lineage. And SoftKinetic is a name that may already be familiar to some of you via its partnerships with Alliance members such as Intel and Texas Instruments; the company develops time-of-flight sensors for 3-D camera designs. Welcome, FireFly DSP and SoftKinetic!!

The Alliance is also less than two months away from presenting the premier Silicon Valley iteration of the Embedded Vision Summit, a free day-long technical educational forum for engineers interested in incorporating visual intelligence into electronic systems and software. Notable updates to the published event information in the last few weeks include details on the keynote presenter, Professor Pieter Abbeel of the University of California at Berkeley, and biographies of several of the technical presentation speakers. On the main Summit page, you'll also now find a detailed agenda of the day's planned events. Reiterating my comments from last time, I encourage you to reserve the day on your calendar and submit an online registration application now, while attendance spots are still available.

Thanks as always for your support of the Embedded Vision Alliance, and for your interest in and contributions to embedded vision technologies, products and applications. Please don't hesitate to let me know how the Alliance can better service your needs.

Brian Dipert
Editor-In-Chief, Embedded Vision Alliance

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