Sang-bum Suh will give a talk on the current status and the future direction of Xen ARM. Xen ARM is the first ARM virtualization S/W based on Xen Architecture.
Jim Huang (jserv) from 0xlab.org prepared the technical training for ARM and SoC. In part I, it introduced the overview of ARM architecture, family, ISA feature, SoC overview, and several practical approaches to Xscale SoC as example.
Sang-bum Suh will give a talk on the current status and the future direction of Xen ARM. Xen ARM is the first ARM virtualization S/W based on Xen Architecture.
Jim Huang (jserv) from 0xlab.org prepared the technical training for ARM and SoC. In part I, it introduced the overview of ARM architecture, family, ISA feature, SoC overview, and several practical approaches to Xscale SoC as example.
Shareholders Are Dissatisfied with CEO Compensation and Disclosure--Proxies Are Too Long, Difficult to Read.
Only 38 percent of institutional investors believe that corporate disclosure about executive compensation is clear and easy to understand. “Shareholders want to know that the size, structure, and performance targets used in executive compensation contracts are appropriate,” says Professor David F. Larcker of the Stanford Graduate School of Business. “Our research shows that, across the board, they are dissatisfied with the quality and clarity of the information they receive about compensation in the corporate proxy. Even the largest, most sophisticated investors are unhappy.”
“With new pressure from activist investors and annual ‘Say on Pay’ (SOP) votes, it is more important than ever that companies explain to their shareholder base why the compensation packages they offer are appropriate in size and structure,” says Aaron Boyd, director of Governance Research at Equilar. “Investors are noticing the wide range in quality and clarity among various companies’ proxies. They want companies to communicate and explain, rather than simply disclose,” adds Ron Schneider, director of Corporate Governance Services at RR Donnelley Financial Services. “This represents a significant opportunity for many companies to improve the clarity of their proxies.”
In the fall of 2014, RR Donnelley, Equilar, and the Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University surveyed 64 asset managers and owners with a combined $17 trillion in assets to understand how institutional investors use the information in corporate proxies.
A model for social change. How do the different components of a movement interact? What happens if they fail accept each others influence? A presentation created in the early 90's and still very relevant today.
Shareholders Are Dissatisfied with CEO Compensation and Disclosure--Proxies Are Too Long, Difficult to Read.
Only 38 percent of institutional investors believe that corporate disclosure about executive compensation is clear and easy to understand. “Shareholders want to know that the size, structure, and performance targets used in executive compensation contracts are appropriate,” says Professor David F. Larcker of the Stanford Graduate School of Business. “Our research shows that, across the board, they are dissatisfied with the quality and clarity of the information they receive about compensation in the corporate proxy. Even the largest, most sophisticated investors are unhappy.”
“With new pressure from activist investors and annual ‘Say on Pay’ (SOP) votes, it is more important than ever that companies explain to their shareholder base why the compensation packages they offer are appropriate in size and structure,” says Aaron Boyd, director of Governance Research at Equilar. “Investors are noticing the wide range in quality and clarity among various companies’ proxies. They want companies to communicate and explain, rather than simply disclose,” adds Ron Schneider, director of Corporate Governance Services at RR Donnelley Financial Services. “This represents a significant opportunity for many companies to improve the clarity of their proxies.”
In the fall of 2014, RR Donnelley, Equilar, and the Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University surveyed 64 asset managers and owners with a combined $17 trillion in assets to understand how institutional investors use the information in corporate proxies.
A model for social change. How do the different components of a movement interact? What happens if they fail accept each others influence? A presentation created in the early 90's and still very relevant today.
'We have rewritten our story as a company' - Matt Ferguson
We have become a major disruptor in the industry. We have changed the rules for recruitment. We have rewritten our story as a company All of us working together have created a new frontier in recruitment and have opened the door to so many possibilities. We at CareerBuilder have made it our business to empower companies and job seekers around the world.
Hydrotherapy is the use of water, externally, for
treatment of illness, diseases, and ailments. Ancient
Greece and Rome coined the natural remedy by using
hot springs and public bath houses for illness and injuries.
AKA: Aquatherapy, hydropathy, and water therapy
Simulation Directed Co-Design from Smartphones to SupercomputersEric Van Hensbergen
SystemExplorer is a system simulation framework based upon the open-source gem5 simulation infrastructure. It includes a rich collection of hardware components such as ARM cores, interconnect, memories and memory controllers, IO devices - ethernet, PCIe, and other peripherals. In addition it provides support for run fully featured operating systems such as Linux and Android combined with pre-packaged filesystem images that contain real workloads and benchmarks for Smartphone, Server and High Performance Computing. In this talk I'll give an overview of ARM R&D's use of the SystemExplorer tool for workload directed architectural co-design. I will focus on how we are using it in combination with the Department of Energy's co-design center proxy applications to help evaluate and enable the ARM architecture to address the power-efficiency, performance, and resilience requirements of Exascale computing.
(Presented during FastPass 2013 Workshop in Austin, TX)
Mobile Platform: Technical Perspective. Which programming languages are used for devices? How many lines of codes are inside a device? How many mobile phones are sold for a year? How many mobile subscribers in the world?
A mobile platform describes some sort of framework, either in hardware or software, which allows mobile applications to run.
Typical platforms include a mobile device's architecture, operating system or middleware, and their runtime libraries.
Spansion Traveo MCUs for Automotive Dashboards with HMI and Embedded 3D Graph...Spansion
Spansion® Traveo™ microcontroller family is aimed at rich human machine interface (HMI) in automotive dashboards. For the first time, Spansion is integrating its breakthrough HyperBus™ interface with its ARM® Cortex®-R5-based embedded Traveo MCU, enabling seamless connections with HyperBus memories, including Spansion HyperFlash™ memory, to provide customers design simplification and faster performance in automotive systems.
Introduction to BeRTOS, real time embedded operating system open source. BeRTOS is free also for commercial projects or closed source applications.
http://www.bertos.org/download/
eMMC 5.0 is the latest generation of embedded NAND Flash IP. Arasan provides a complete solution including digital controllers for host and device, the mixed PHY I/O and pads, software drivers, hardware validation and support.
The Spansion® Traveo™ microcontrollers are based on the ARM® Cortex®-R5 core and will deliver high performance, enhanced human-machine interfaces, high-security and advanced networking protocols tailored for a broad range of automotive applications such as electrification, body electronics, battery management, automotive cluster displays, HVAC and ADAS.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered Quality
Презентация команды "Обыватели"
1. Performance Impact of Flash Memory on
Multi-Core Android-Based Smartphone
Takeshi Ohkawa
Principal Software Platform Architect
TOPS Systems Corp
Ibaraki, Japan
TOPS Systems Corp., All rights reserved. Presented in Flash Memory Summit
2. Motivations
Many cell phone makers facing “Power Wall”
Need to run more applications for a longer time
Is Flash Memory a option?
Created a Virtual Platform for Performance and Power Optimization
• Enable Performance and Power Profiling and Tuning with
running real Java Applications on Android
– Application : Android application written in Java
– SW Platform : Android SDK
– HW Platform on VisualSim: ARM9/11 Library, Memory Libraries, etc.
Huge expectations on Android Market
• Many chip vendors are porting and demonstrating Android
– ARM, TI, Qualcomm, NEC, Freescale, Marvell, Renesas
TOPS Systems Corp., All rights reserved. Presented in Flash Memory Summit
3. What is “Android on VisualSim”?
Android HW/SW running on VisualSim platform
• Execute any Android applications
• Visualize what’s happening on SW and HW platform
– Where is the bottle neck
Visualize the Performance and the Power
• “Performance Meter”
– Performance Profile : Flash, CPU, SDRAM, WiFi
• “Power Meter”
– Power profile : CPU, SDRAM, Flash, WiFi, LCD, Touch Screen
Optimize Application Software for Performance and/or Power
• Need power control, smart
Optimize Hardware architecture for Performance and/or Power
• need Multi-Core, Low-Power memory, Back Light Control, etc.
TOPS Systems Corp., All rights reserved. Presented in Flash Memory Summit
4. TOPS Systems Corp.
Established in 1999, Tsukuba, Japan
TOPS Systems provides:
• Heterogenerous multi-core Solutions: wide range of energy-
efficient and scalable Multi-Core solutions. These cores provide
distinct advantages from optimizations through Architecture-
Algorithm Co-Design and Hardware-Software Co-Design for
Systems and SoC developers.
• Heterogeneous multi-core processor IP: TOPSTREAM™ -
based products are used in higher performance and lower power
applications ranging from battery-driven information appliances.
• Development service: in Japan a range of services from initial
architecture definition and software development through design
verification as their extension to reduce total development costs
and speed time to market.
TOPS Systems Corp., All rights reserved. Presented in Flash Memory Summit
5. VisualSim Model Screen Shot
TOPS Systems Corp., All rights reserved. Presented in Flash Memory Summit
6. Development Flow
Android Android
(FileI/F)
Instruction Level G1
SW Platform (CORBA I/F) HW Platform
In QEMU In VisualSim
Integration
Performance & Power Analysis
TOPS Systems Corp., All rights reserved. Presented in Flash Memory Summit
7. Android Instruction Level
SW Platform
Boot Message FLASH
Applications
(Java)
UART File System
・Generate Bus
Transactions
・Instruction Type
porting
ARM11 ISS
(QEMU)
Instruction Level
Android SW Stack
TOPS Systems Corp., All rights reserved. Presented in Flash Memory Summit
8. Connection between
SW model and HW model
Application
(Web, Map, YouTube, etc) Android G1 System
Java Cycle Accurate/ Instruction
Android
SW Platform
Linux Dalvik lib
ARM ISA Hardware Platform on VisualSim
NAND Flash (256MB)
QEMU + DDR SDRAM (128MB)
Samsung MCP
K5E2G1GACM
Cycle
ARM goldfish
Counter
CORBA Wi-Fi LCD LCD Sharp
Power AMP Transceiver 3.2” TFT
MMU FB LCD 802.11b/g 802.11b/g
Controller HVGA (320 x 480)
TI WL1251FE TI WL1251B
Capacitive
Cache KEY Touch Screen Touch
Controller
transactions Battery Power Synaptics 1007A Screen
Touch 35H00106-01M
Management
Qualcomm
Screen 1150mAh PM7540 Key Board
WiFi MSM7201A
Qualcomm
Audio ARM11@528MHz
Memory ARM926@274(modem)
TOPS Systems Corp., All rights reserved. Presented in Flash Memory Summit
9. Summary
Released “Android™ on VisualSim” architecture
exploration platform for multi-core phone design.
Systems designers of Android devices can use
this platform for hardware-software architecture
exploration and power and performance analysis
of consumer devices.
Achieved 10-20 MIPS for a cycle-based and
Approximately-Timed simulation running
software applications.
TOPS Systems Corp., All rights reserved. Presented in Flash Memory Summit