Freescale Semiconductor Kick-Starts Freescale Technology Forum Americas

By Calvin Azuri

TMCnet Contributor

 

The Freescale Technology Forum Americas was kicked off by Freescale Semiconductor (News - Alert) at the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton Conference Centers in Orlando, Fla.

A unique opportunity to view and interact with the Freescale ecosystem, an international community comprising of Freescale and its partners, customers and universities is provided to the attendees by FTF. Around 2,000 designers, applications engineers, industry leading experts, executives and hardware, software and tools partners are working hands on for the FTF Americas event.

The FTF Americas 2010 program comprises of more than 350 hours of technical training sessions which are planned into five tracks: Automotive, Consumer, Industrial, Networking and Enabling Technologies. The event will feature more than 175 demonstrations presented by Freescale and its partners and keynote presentations from industry visionaries at a 28,000 square-foot interactive Technology Lab.

The global FTF 2010 program is based on the theme of "Powering Innovation." Freescale will not only put emphasis on its major technologies and products which assist embedded developers in differentiating their designs, but also on the complete, market-focused range of enablement solutions and ecosystem partnerships which are needed in helping developers in innovating and accelerating their time to market.

The Keynote presentations at FTF Americas will be presented by Mr. Rich Beyer, the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Freescale on Tuesday, June 22 and on Wednesday, June 23 by Hugh Herr the director of the Biomechatronics research group at the MIT (News - Alert) Media Lab.

The Freescale Technology Forum 2010 will be held all over the world as follows: FTF Americas will be held from June 21-24 in Orlando, while the FTF India will be held on August 18-19 in Bangalore. From August 24-25 FTF China will be held in Shanghai, followed by FTF Japan on September 14 in Tokyo.

The Global Diamond Sponsors for FTF 2010 are Enea, Green Hills Software, Inc., Mentor Graphics and Wind River Systems, whereas Microsoft (News - Alert) and QNX are the Global Platinum Sponsors.

The Freescale Technology Forum was initially created for driving innovation and collaboration; it has now become the developer event of the year for the embedded semiconductor industry. More than 35,000 attendees over the world have attended the FTF events since their inception in 2005.