IDF: Merced details, encryption top Intel Developers' Forum agenda
By David Lammers
EE Times
(02/16/99, 5:07 p.m. EDT)
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. — Intel Corp. will detail its plans for security and data encryption, next-generation interconnect and the Rambus memory architecture at the Intel Developers' Forum, which convenes here Feb. 23-25.
Dan Russell, director of platform marketing, said Intel expects about 1,500 engineers to attend the 110 technical sessions and 18 labs over the three-day event. The general theme is how to design systems, based on the Pentium III processor, that are optimized for multimedia and the Internet. The IA-64 Merced architecture will be more fully described, and Intel executives will detail plans for embedded applications built around both StrongARM and Intel-architecture designs. Mobile technologies will be another theme.
Software developers will get information about how to write drivers and applications that will handle the streaming single-instruction, multiple-data extensions to the Intel architecture, including new instructions and changes to the Pentium hardware that support video and other multimedia data types.
Intel will describe new versions of the VTune tool used by software engineers, as well as the IPeak tool used by system developers. Russell said an interconnect lab will detail the tools and design techniques needed to tackle the 100-MHz and higher buses. "The transmission-line effects in CMOS GTL (Gunning transceiver logic) are not so much frequency dependent as a matter of the design techniques that are used to handle the new challenges at 100 and 133 MHz," said Russell. Peter MacWilliams, director of platform architecture at the Intel Architecture Labs, will discuss the Rambus memory technology at a Tuesday afternoon session.
Justin Rattner, director of the server architecture lab at the IAL, will discuss the course Intel plans for next-generation I/O. And yet another area of contention-encryption and security issues-will be the subject of a full-scale tutorial by David Aucsmith, senior architect at the security technology lab.
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