Consumer Electronics Society Newsletter Fall 2011 ■ Number 3

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Stephen Dukes President, Imaginary Universe, LLC [email protected] Table of Contents From the President ...... 1 From the Editor ...... 4 An Appeal to Patent Agnostics ...... 9 Conference IEEE Consumer Electronics Society Briefing – ICCE-Berlin 2011 ...... 10 Conference Growth Conference Focus – IGIC 2011...... 15 The IEEE CE Society served as a technical co-sponsor of the 1st International Conference on Consumer Electronics, Communica- A Review of Popular tions and Networks (CECNet) 2011 in Xianning, China in April of Games Conferences ...... 18 2011. Larry Zhang, past President of the IEEE CE Society served as Down Memory Lane ...... 20 the General Chair of the conference. Thomas Coughlin, Vice Presi- Meet Dr. Robin Sarah Bradbeer . . . . . 20 dent of Operations and Planning and myself participated in the CECNet 2011 conference in April of 2011. The CECNet 2011 confer- The Non-Kit Computer...... 21 ence was well attended. We had the opportunity to meet with pro- Apple Designer Muses on fessors from Xianning University and delegates from Taiwan who the Micro Competition ...... 25 were interested in CE Society activities. The CE Society has significant interest in growing it presence in China with the establishment Quick-Start Guide to Preparing of new chapters and conferences. We are working towards ensuring Content for CE Magazine ...... 28 that these conferences will compliant with IEEE requirements. The CE News Bytes ...... 29 scope of the conference was on consumer electronics, communica- Focus on IPAD2...... 36 tions and networks. The IEEE CE Society will serve as a technical co-sponsor and I iPad 2 (Wi-Fi) – Device Teardown. . . . 37 will serve as the General Co-Chair of the 2nd International Confer- Smart Grid Round-Up...... 38 ence on Consumer Electronics, Communications and Networks (CECNet) 2012 conference in Three Gorges, China in April of 2012. What the Internet of Things Will Joe Lillie, a prominent member of the IEEE, has agreed to serve as Mean for the Smart Grid ...... 41 Technical Program Committee Chair. We have well known indus- IEEE CE Society Standards Update . . 43 try executives that will contribute as keynote speakers for the con- Conference Report – ISCE 2011 . . . . . 44 ference. The CE Society will also serve as the technical co-sponsor of the 3rd International Conference on E-Business and E-Govern- General Notices & Announcements . 46 ment (ICEE) 2012 to be held in Shanghai, China in May of 2012. The intent of the participation is to create new chapters in each location where conferences are held and continue to grow the IEEE CE Society in China. continued on page 3 The IEEE Consumer Electronics Society wants you as a member. To join, click on issn 1082-748X http://ewh.ieee.org/soc/ces/ and then member benefits. On this page you can choose the type of membership which fits your needs. Just select the membership desired and you will be transferred to a page which is specifically set up for that membership. 2011 CHAPTER CHAIRS 2011 IEEE CONSUMER ELECTRONICS SOCIETY ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE BANGALORE SECTION CHAPTER BHASKAR J KARMAKAR [email protected] Term Expires 2011 Stefan Mozar Richard S. Prodan BEIJING SECTION Robin S. Bradbeer Vice President of BROADCOM Corporation DONG LIU VP of International Affairs Conferences Longmont, CO [email protected] City University of Hong Kong University of Western Sydney DALLAS SECTION CHAPTER Department of Electronic Australia Tom Wilson WILLIAM LUMPKINS Engineering 44 Meurants Lane Secretary/Governance [email protected] Hong Kong Glenwood, NSW Phorusgasse 8/6 2768 Australia 1040 Vienna, Austria GERMANY SECTION CHAPTER Tomohiro Hase HANS L. CYCON Ex-Officio Members [email protected] VP of International Strategy Sharon Peng Stephen D. Dukes Ryukoku University Awards Chair GREECE SECTION CHAPTER President Department of Media Harman International ATHANASIOS KAKAROUNTAS Stanwood, WA [email protected] Informatics 8500 Balboa Blvd. Faculty of Science and Northridge, CA 91329 HONG KONG SECTION CHAPTER Technology Larry Zhang BERNARD C FONG Seta, Otsu 520-2194, Japan Past President/Nominations Chair [email protected] Simon Sherratt ICERA Transactions on Consumer Richardson, TX KANSAI SECTION CHAPTER William Lumpkins Electronics Editor TADASHI SAKAMOTO Standards, Technical Activities The University of Reading [email protected] Chair School of Systems Engineering Peter Clout OTTAWA SECTION JT. CHAPTER Wi2Wi Inc. RG6 6AY, UK Division IV Director WAHAB ALMUHTADI 2107N. 1st Street, Suite 540 Vista Control Systems, Inc. [email protected] San Jose, CA 95131 2101 Trinity Drive, Suite Q Kyle Wiens Los Alamos, NM 87544-4103 PHILADELPHIA SECTION JT.CHAPTER Membership Chair GAIL L ROSEN Wayne C. Luplow iFixit [email protected] Scott Linfoot ATSC Representative 9393 Eagle Vista Way Treasurer PORTUGAL SECTION JT. CHAPTER Zenith Electronics Atascadero, CA 93422 De Montfort University JORGE R FERNANDES 2000 Millbrook Drive Department of Engineering [email protected] Lincolnshire, IL 60069 Queen’s Building Term Expires 2013 The Gateway PRINCETON-CENTRAL JERSEY SEC. JT. CHAPTER Narisa Chu NARAYAN L GEHLOT Brian Markwalter Leicester UK LE9 1BH [email protected] CWLab International, Ltd. CEA Liaison 3338 Prairie RUSSIA (NORTHWEST) SECT Consumer Electronics Thousand Oaks, CA 91320 Stuart Lipoff DMITRY A TKACHENKO Association VP of Publications [email protected] 1919 S. 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The strategy of the CE Society is The ICCE – Berlin held in Europe the ISCE 2013. The conference will be to couple the new conferences along- and GCCE held in Japan, will com- held in Hsin-Chu, Taiwan, an area side existing, successful international plement the ISCE Conference that is with over 400 technical and manu- consumer electronics shows, a for- held in countries around the globe. facturer companies, along with three mula that has been highly successful The site for the ISCE is selected by universities, i.e., National Taiwan with the International CES show the Chapter Chairs. The ISCE for University, National Chiao Tung held annually in Las Vegas each year. 2011 was held in Singapore. Next University and National Chung We have two new conferences that year the ISCE 2012 will be held in Hsing University. We are excited will ensure a CE Society presence at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA. with the opportunity to hold the con- two major CE shows. The ICCE – The ISCE 2011 Singapore Confer- ference here in Hsin-Chu, Taiwan. Berlin 2011 conference is being held ence was chaired by Nicholas Van We are planning two other regional in tandem with the IFA show in Ber- successful. Following the conference, conferences, within the next year or lin, Germany in September and the a tutorial was held and well two, one, possibly, in India. The dis- GCCE 2012 that will be held in asso- attended. The R10 Chapter Chairs cussions associated with a conference ciation with the CEATEC in Japan met under the auspicious of Dr. in India come after only one year of October 2012, outside Tokyo. Robin Bradbeer, Vice President for establishing our first CE chapter in Each of these conferences will be International Affairs during the ISCE India. Dr. Robin Bradbeer, Vice held annually. Association with con- 2011. Another similar meeting is President, International Affairs and sumer electronics trade shows is a scheduled for those that did not Dr. Tom Coughlin, Vice President, useful construct for attracting engi- attend the meeting in Singapore. Operations and Planning traveled to neers and technical individuals inter- At the Singapore ISCE 2011, Tai- ested in the shows to our conferences. wan was selected as the location for continued on page 13

Xianning, China: CECNet 2011 Conference organizers Dr. Jiao Feng (to left), Dr. Feng Liu (to Xianning, China: left to right: Members of the Taiwan delegation, Tom Coughlin, Stephen Dukes, right), with CE Society President, Stephen Dukes. Professor Gengyu Cao, and Professor Wu Jiliang, Vice President of Xianning University.

A group shot of all delegates at the CECNet 2011 conference in Xianning, China.

IEEE Consumer Electronics Society Newsletter/Fall 2011 3 FROM THE EDITOR

By Peter Corcoran

Hi CE Society Members, it has been In the Spring 2011 issue we saw focus on the latest news stories in CE; a really crazy few weeks for me. My an extensive article from president note that as we transition to the CE deadlines for CE Newsletter just Dukes who devoted some of his Mag I am looking for associate edi- happened to overlap with a week’s time to a comprehensive visit to tors to take over these regular sec- visit to Romania so I had a lot of Japan to foster relations with vari- tions of the Magazine. (Please contact mini-crises getting ready for this ous technical bodies and representa- [email protected] if you’d like to issue. Also it doesn’t help that we’ll tives of the CE industry. As part of take on one of these opportunities.) have deadlines for the first issue of society strategy this will help grow And there you have the short, bit- CE Magazine next month so I’m run- our participation in more Interna- tersweet history of CE Newsletter ning from one set of fire-drills to tional conferences and the develop- under my editorship. It was fun, but another, but more on that later. Also ment of our primary ICCE branding sadly is already over p but there is more on that Romanian trip and for the CE society’s conference activ- happy news to end this tale! some more musings from the Google ities. This issue also featured a Generation (remember them) p detailed retrospective on ICCE 2011 Hello CE-Mag! So after loading most of the mis- with many pictures, thanks in par- The truth is that I was originally sion critical files from my home ticular due to Jim Farmer, former appointed by Adcom to run the CE desktop computer onto my trusty editor of the Newsletter. This issue Magazine but it later emerged that it Mac powerbook – unfortunately I also featured several technical arti- would take a while for wheels of am not fully cloud-enabled just yet – cles – part of our evolution towards IEEE publications to start turning. In I was ready to set off on my trek the CE Magazine: “Angels in our the meantime it seemed like a good around one of the most beautiful Midst”, by Tom Coughlin reminded idea that I’d begin to cut my teeth on mountain countries in Europe. But us of the problems of tracking data the Newsletter. first some sad news p as we move towards the era of Well, finally, after more than a “cloud computing”; “Time to Get year and a half I am in a position to Bye-bye Newsletter p. Serious with Interactive TV”, by Stu announce that we are close to being Yes, this is the last edition of your Lipoff reminded us that nest-gener- ready for the first issue of CE Maga- favorite newsletter. I’ve only been ation TV is on its way; finally “A zine. Very close in fact, because as I doing this job for 12 months, but Bitter Pill, or a Better Tablet” traces close this issue of the Newsletter, my time flies and already it is time to the history of tablet computing and deadline for the first issue of the say good-bye. We’ve had an interest- the roots of the astonishing success Magazine is less that a month away! ing year in the CE industry, an inter- of the iPad. We already have some good content esting year in our CE Society but The Summer 2011 issue follows in place, but I do need more. Lots, now it is time to move on. But before with a focus on the IGIC 2011 confer- lots more. we do that, perhaps a few reminisces ence to be held in Southern Califor- You will find several calls for on the past year. nia – the International Games papers/articles in this and previous My first issue of the Newsletter Innovation Conference (IGIC) is only issues of the Newsletter. Also, in a was the Winter 2011 issue which 3 years old, but has already captured separate section, below you’ll find my was released (in electronic format) in a somewhat unique niche between editors quick-start guide to content early January, just in time for ICCE academia and industry. This issue for the magazine. And if you’d like to 2011. A strong emphasis was placed also highlighted one of IEEE’s priori- propose a special call for papers just on our society strategic plan by pres- ties for 2011 with a detailed article on mail me with some details of your ident, Stephen Dukes. Naturally Cloud Computing. If you need to get suggestion at [email protected]. there was a range of material on up to speed with the world of ICCE 2011, including a focus on our “Cloud Computing” I recommend Writing Articles & conference patrons and on invited this excellent overview of the field. Content for CEMag sessions. There were also articles on Another priority area for IEEE in CE Magazine will be a full IEEE the distinguished lecturer program, 2011 is highlighted in a new section Magazine and each issue will on our new Bangalore chapter and a “Smart-Grid Round Up”; a second appear in IEEE Xplore. This implies historical perspective on 3D. new section, “CE News Bytes” has a that all content will be available to

4 IEEE Consumer Electronics Society Newsletter/Fall 2011 subscribers of IEEE Xplore so your cle on Cloud Computing, inspired articles and submissions will reach a by the theme of ICCE 2012) far wider audience than the mem- vii) Historical Articles relating to bers of our IEEE society. recent Industry Trends (e.g. see The quality and presentation of recent articles on Tablet Computing this content will, in turn, reflect on and 3D Cinematography) us, as a society, and bearing this in viii) Future Vision articles on trends in mind, I intend to keep material topi- a particular CE Industry sector cal and of high quality. In turn, I expect that many of our articles will In this Issue attract external comment and cita- This issue we have another wide tion. Thus as a CE Society member I mix of articles. Note that many of would ask you to consider writing a these sections will pass over to the short article or review to share your CE Magazine so you’ll still find experiences and knowledge with much of the Newsletter will live on your fellow society members. In par- in CE Magazine. ticular for those of high achievement We open with a detailed article and responsibility there is an even from CE Society President Stephen stronger mandate to share your Dukes. This time he has been visit- experience and expertise. ing mainland China, Taiwan and In many instances this may not Korea, attending some conferences, even take a great deal of work – you articles recently please feel free to meeting with a range of Universi- may already have written reports or approach the author on behalf of ties, technical organizations and have students who have completed your Society, or if you prefer give conference committees. Stephen is literature reviews, or perhaps you’ve me some reference to the original certainly setting an example for completed a technology or product article and an e-mail contact for the us all in his mission to advance the evaluation within your organization. author. CE Society’s strategic plan by grow- All that may be needed is some You may also have peers or col- ing our membership and participa- internal approval process to release leagues who are working in a field of tion in conferences. You’ll find other the relevant material for external interest to CE Society members. They prominent Adcom members men- publication. may be willing to provide an article tioned in Stephen’s article, notably In all such cases I am more than on a topic relevant to CE. We will Tom Coughlin and Professor Tomo- happy to provide supporting letters shortly have an active Web-Site on hiro Hase. and I am also happy to publicize, ScholarOne for submitting content: After this you have my Editor’s acknowledge and promote the con- http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cemag. Notes section with a focus on the new tributions of your organization to the CE Magazine. This is followed by an CE Society and the IEEE. (But adver- Some Ideas for article on “Intellectual Property” by tising is NOT free!) If you have any Potential Articles Conor Boyce. Conor is a senior part- questions or would like to discuss Here is a short list of suitable topics ner at FR Kelly, a prominent Irish possible articles please contact me for articles that may be of interest to Patent Law Firm. I’m hoping to have ([email protected]) to discuss. your fellow CE Society Members: a regular column on Patent and i) Local Chapter & Chair Events Intellectual Property issues as they Solicit an Article and Activities; refer to consumer electronics. If you or Content ii) IEEE conferences & workshops – have questions or an interest in cer- Another approach to getting inter- particularly those sponsored by tain aspects of Intellectual Property esting articles is to simply ask peo- CE Society; Law please let me know and I’ll try ple – if you have read some iii) Literature/Technology Reviews to get you an answer. interesting article recently and you which are CE relevant – e.g. The next two articles focus on two think that it would be of interest to derived from a PhD student’s upcoming conferences that IEEE CE CE Society members we can simply thesis work; Society is involved with in Septem- ask the author if they would be iv) Major CE Industry events and ber and November 2011. The first is interested in reaching a wider audi- trade shows the newly launched ICCE-Berlin ence – many authors are delighted v) Tutorials/Evaluations of new 2011 that is co-located with IFA Ber- to customize an earlier article, or CE-relevant technologies lin 2011 – the worlds leading busi- provide a revised or updated article. vi) Reviews of Topical Industry ness event for consumer electronics So if you have read some interesting Trends (e.g. see this months arti- and home appliances products. The

IEEE Consumer Electronics Society Newsletter/Fall 2011 5 second focus is on IGIC 2011 which for them. Somehow they seem to they learned to share know-how was also featured in the last issue of move from one new adventure to and teach each other new skills to the Newsletter. You’ll find updates another without much help or input the point were even the 4 year old on speakers and special events at on my part. is quite skilled and competent in each conference. Recently my eldest daughter (8) this gaming world. I don’t know Our main article this month is actu- made the mental breakthrough that how long this phenomenon will ally a double reprint of a set of articles the computer is a separate entity last – it started about 6 weeks ago – which originally appeared in the from the Internet! This revelation but I do know one very positive April and May 1979 issues of Practical partly occurred because I was away benefit. My kids don’t watch the Computing. These were interviews from home and my wife didn’t know Disney channel any more – it just with Steve Wozniak and the journalist how to reset the router, hence several has not got what it takes now that in question was Robin Bradbeer from days of Internet deprivation ensued. they discovered their first “interac- our Adcom. Robin is VP of Interna- However the full background story is tive” world! tional Affairs for CE Society and we a little longer and starts with an inter- also have a short biographical sketch. active “virtual world” game called Travels in Romania I’ll be featuring other members of the minecraft http://www.minecraft.net/. I mentioned earlier that most of this Adcom from time-to-time. It is inter- This game is focused on creativity issue was put together while on the esting that Apple have now grown to and building, allowing players to road. For those who are interested I be the No.1 innovator in the con- build constructions out of textured was traveling in Romania, one of the sumer electronics industry. I hope you cubes in a 3D world. The game starts most beautiful countries in Eastern enjoy this trip back down memory by placing the player on the surface Europe, if not the World. Fortunately lane and if you have been involved in of a huge procedurally generated it also has excellent Internet connec- similar historic events please feel free game world. The player can walk tivity so even though I was moving to write about the and share with across the terrain consisting of plains, around all the time I was always sure your colleagues. mountains, caves, and various water of good network connections. This article is followed by CE bodies. The in-game time system fol- I began with a visit to the country News Bytes – a new column I lows a day and night cycle. Players house of a friend of mine, way up in started last issue. Again, for the CE can “mine” different resources and the mountain valley of Voineasa. Magazine I am looking for a volun- “craft” tools, weapons, armor, food, This is an unusual location as much teer Associate Editor who would and various other items from these. of the valley is part of a large hydro- take on responsibility to compile OK, the kids didn’t find out about electricity scheme and there are at such an assortment of CE news minecraft on their own – my older son least 3 major dams on the road to items on a regular basis. If you are who is completing his college degree Voineasa. However it has the great interested please contact me at thought it might be a bit like a “virtual advantage that the road has to be [email protected]. A tear-down and game of Lego” for them. Boy he sure kept clear of snow in Winter. And device profile of the new iPad2 fol- had his fingers on the pulse there p when you get to the top of the valley lows. This is based on “tear-down” My kids have gone crazy about this you can appreciate the peace and information obtained from the iFixit game. They learned the basics quite quiet of the Romanian countryside. website: http://www.ifixit.com/. A spe- quickly and soon advanced to build- Funny enough, though, my friend cial thanks to Kyle Wiens for giving ing more complex structures. They has a 100 Mbps connection in his permission to use this material. And also found a YouTube channel that has remote country house. This is very if you like this tear-down then tell video tutorials on how to build and typical of Romania – the peace and me so we have more of them in the craft a range of more complex tools idyll of two generations ago, com- future. This is followed by Smart and structures. Then they contacted bined with today’s technology. Grid Round-Up which this month their older brother by Skype to orga- has a focus on the members of the nize multiplayer games. Now even CE Society smart-grid committee. my 4 year old son knows how to build Again I’ve reprinted an article with underground mines and knows about interest for CE people from the June finding rarer minerals to build stron- IEEE Smart Grid Newsletter. ger armor & weapons – well he is a boy; the girls prefer to set up a market More on the and trade with other players! Google Generation I guess my point here is that my I wrote in an earlier issue about my kids figured all of this out with just somewhat over-connected kids and a small nudge from their older coined the term the Google Generation brother. After some initial disputes Bucharest Old Town.

6 IEEE Consumer Electronics Society Newsletter/Fall 2011 For Monday I traveled to Brasov, I first visited Romania in 1994, I finished my week back in nestled in the Carpathian moun- shortly after it had emerged from the Bucharest, meeting with the Vice tains. This is another beautiful shadow of Nicolae Ceausescu. At Dean of Polytechnica University – town with a historic center second that time it was facing a huge chal- the largest Engineering University in to none. I’ve included an aerial lenge to develop a working economy Romania. On the last evening before shot of the town and some pictures and find some way to survive in the leaving I walked the streets of the to try and give you a feeling for the global marketplace. Romanians old town with some Engineering col- medieval nature of the town. But always despaired about their future leagues and from the number of here I was visiting the offices of a but I always told them that they young Romanians in bars & cafes we listed US corporation to discuss were going to go through the same could have been in Paris or London. some of the latest in embedded transitions as most Western econo- Except, of course for the Architecture imaging technologies. Again we mies, but what took 30–40 years to which has that solid and precise, yet find this unique contrast between happen elsewhere would take 10–15 in places, quite edgy and haphazard old and new, the historic and the in Romania. Now 15 years later on I medievalism about it, echoing the technological. see that is very much the case. unique character of its people.

The local Equivalent of the “Hollywood” Sign. Beautiful Medieval Architecture of Brasov.

One of the large electricity dams of Voineasa. And the beautiful lake above.

City-Center of Brasov – Very Peaceful. Fly-over view of Brasov.

IEEE Consumer Electronics Society Newsletter/Fall 2011 7 IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine Call for Papers – Launching Q1 2012

The IEEE Consumer Electronics Society will launch its flagship society magazine during the first quarter of 2012. The magazine will be published on a quarterly basis and will feature a range of topical content on state- of-art consumer electronics systems, services and devices and associated technologies.

Articles should be broadly scoped – typically review and tutorial articles are particularly suited to the Maga- zine. Technical articles may be suitable but these should be of general interest to an engineering audience and of broader scope than regular technical papers.

Some example fields of interest include:

Digital Broadcast & HDTV Smart-Grid & CE Displays for CE Interactive & Immersive TV Home Networks & Services Storage & Digital Media Smart Imaging & Cameras Audio Systems & Technologies CE & Digital Content Issues Mobile Devices Security & Rights Management Device Interconnects Digital Video Processing & Codecs HCI & User Interface Haptics & Multi-Touch

3D Imaging & Display Wireless & RF in CE CE Image & Signal Processing Home Healthcare New & Emerging Technologies Gaming Devices & Systems Social & Economic Impacts of CE Wireless Sensor Networks in CE CE & Cloud Computing

Articles related to the background story behind engineering standards or practical experiences in product specification and design are particularly welcome. Tutorials on CE related technologies or techniques are also encouraged.

The Magazine will also feature regular sections devoted to standards, patents & IP matters, security & digital content, device tear-downs and reviews of books and engineering software & design tools. If you are interested in contributing please contact the editor at [email protected] for feedback and to discuss the suitability of your ideas for an article.

8 IEEE Consumer Electronics Society Newsletter/Fall 2011 AN APPEAL TO PATENT AGNOSTICS

Conor Boyce, Partner, FR Kelly

Do not go up, for the Lord is not has driven innovation in the free for Google or Coke if they no longer among you, lest you be struck market and lead to many of the had exclusive rights to use their down before your enemies – more significant technologies whose trademarks! For others, copyright Numbers 14:42 benefits we enjoy every day. comprises the core component of We know for example that many their business, for example, in a Conor Boyce M.Eng., C. Eng., European Pat- new drugs are only brought to market piece of music or indeed any multi- ent Attorney, Com munity on the basis they are protected by pat- media material, software or literary Trade Mark Attorney. ents, as otherwise companies would work. Each of these forms of “intel- Conor graduated from not incur the enormous costs of lectual property” have their own University of Limerick in research and trialing the drug, know- specialized practitioners, obscure 1991 with a Masters ing their competitors could then freely rites, rituals, traditions and legal cer- degree in Electronic Engi- use the knowledge subsequently. On emonies. neering and qualified as a the other hand, while those of you For the purposes of this series of European Patent Attorney with FRKelly in reading this article in electronic form articles, we will limit our concerns 1993. may appreciate that Tim Berners Lee to patents. Continuing with the reli- gave the World Wide Web to the gious analogy, there are those who From 1997 to 2000 he worked world free of patent rights, and indeed believe in patents and those who do with IBM as a Senior Patent Attor- it is no surprise that an academic did not. Indeed much as in our free soci- ney, and is a named inventor in his so, many of the improvements that ety, individuals and companies are own right on an IBM Patent. He have been made to the Internet over perfectly free to adopt whichever rejoined FRKelly in 2000, and joined the last 20 years or so have been sub- belief system they wish. For exam- the Partnership of the firm in 2006. ject to patents and without these our ple, there are companies who will Conor is one of Ireland’s leading world would be a far less colorful, aggressively attempt to secure and authorities on patents for software- interesting and efficient place. enforce patents for any kind of implemented inventions, and is one Nonetheless, it is probably fair to invention, sometimes independently of the most experienced attorneys say that those outside the Intellec- of whether or not they intend bring- specializing in software, electronics tual Property Profession may have a ing a product incorporating that and telecommunications inventions. poor understanding of the patent invention to market themselves. From his time with IBM he gained a system. Indeed even many regular Some readers will no doubt be thorough knowledge of the commer- users of the system can struggle to familiar with US NPEs (non-practic- cial aspects of licensing and com- grasp some of its principles. ing entities) and their previously mercialization of IP. When advising clients, IP practi- favored form of transport, the sub- Conor is a member of the Council tioners face similar challenges to the marine patent! Fortunately the pat- of the European Patent Institute (epi) clerics of the world’s religions in ent system does evolve over time and sits on the Professional Qualifi- guiding their client congregation. and the arcane practices that enabled cations Committee of the epi. He The cleric’s job can be easier as he yesterday’s sub-mariners to build also acts as a tutor on the CEIPI can fall back on the “faith” of his billion dollar corporations are no course preparing students for the flock, whereas the IP Attorney some- longer possible. European Qualifying Examination. times finds that his clients need to On the other hand, there are the acquire a qualification in theology non-believers who divide into the Patents have been awarded for before they can fully appreciate the agnostic camp who simply ignore hundreds of years and whether by subtleties of the IP creed. patents, and the more fanatical design or circumstance, the patent In even the simplest of products, non-believers who actively attempt system has proved in that time to be the Intellectual Property components to limit and restrict the IP protection the only one to successfully encour- can include Trademarks, Copyright, afforded to others. age inventors to disclose how their Patents, Designs without even con- One example of this particular inventions work in exchange for the sidering Domain name rights, Semi- line of evangelists are those in the grant of a limited monopoly for their conductor Topography rights, software industry who for whatever inventions. This largely self-regulat- Database rights etc. For some prod- reason, believe that copyright ing system has provided a balance of ucts, trademark protection takes pre- should not be afforded to authors of incentive and reward which in turn cedence – imagine the consequences software and that patents should not

IEEE Consumer Electronics Society Newsletter/Fall 2011 9 be awarded for software imple- their own rights without fear of which jurisdictions, weighing up the mented inventions. This latter cate- retribution. costs involved in doing so, the likely gory may or may not have vested As in many other areas in life, I scope of patent which might be interests and I will not attempt to can only recommend that before one available and the relevance of that disabuse them of their views here; “converts” to a particular patent patent to your customers and your but for the agnostics, ignorance is no belief system, it is essential to test market. There may also be options defense when they encounter a the practical basis on which that to license or acquire 3rd party rights believer armed with and about to belief system will be established, or to join industry patent pools. enforce patent rights against them. ideally taking advice from a quali- Then armed with this information, Indeed, often the reason a non- fied practitioner. informed decisions can be made. believer is faced with such a threat Equipped with the relevant Any other approach is simply is because the 3rd party has recog- knowledge, you can then take a leaving to chance what could be nized that the non-believer does more pragmatic view in relation to one of the most important and valu- not hold any patent rights that whether your business should be fil- able assets of your undertaking might be deployed defensively and ing patent applications, for what and with potentially catastrophic so they are perfectly free to assert aspects of your business, and in consequences.

CONFERENCE BRIEFING – ICCE-BERLIN 2011 http://www.icce-berlin.org/

Conference Overview developers, and service providers to 3D-TV and UHD-TV – Perspectives of From 6th to 8th September the IEEE share their ideas, designs and experi- Consumer Electronics after HDTV. International Conference on Con- ences. Keynotes and extra events A visit to Ralf Schaefer’s HDTV sumer Electronics ICCE-Berlin 2011 and will round up the program. Labs in Berlin during the conference will take place. It will be held in ICCE Berlin is co-located with IFA will be organized. close connection with the IFA “Con- 2011. A session on Green Technology sumer Electronics Unlimited”, the addresses an actual interesting topic. leading trade show for Consumer Conference Highlights Niels F. Nissen will held a Keynote The Electronics and Home Appliances, We will have a series of keynote, the Push and Pull of Greening Electronics, K. which takes place from the 2nd to opening keynotes will be held by Schischke from Fraunhofer Institute 7th of September, overlapping Karl-Heinz Brandenburg, director IZM in Berlin organized two sessions slightly with our ICCE-Berlin Con- of the Fraunhofer Institute for Digi- on Green Technologies and Wayne ference. The participants of the tal Media Technology IDMT and Rifer will held a 2 hours workshop on ICCE-Berlin will get a ticket to visit one of the inventors of the MP3 Environmental Standard Development for the IFA. Of course, the IEEE player. His keynote talk is titled: The Consumer Electronics EPEAT – IEEE Consumer Electronics Society’s Future of Digital Media: Interactive 1680 Family of Standards. flagship ICCE conference is held and Immersive? Reinhard Moeller from Bergische annually in Las Vegas, but we are A complimentary talk will follow Universitaet Wuppertal Germany very happy to host a CE-Conference by Ralf Schaefer on the topic of and his group will present a new LV now the first time in Berlin. The time Game: for the organization was short but “Heavy Me[n]tal Pong”. we all tried to do our best to make it They want to implement a Multi- a success. And we also hope it will touch-capable version of Pong that become an annual event. can be played by two to six players. Slowly the program approaches The MT Display must be mounted its final form. The conference will horizontally like a gaming table. It is bring together researchers and engi- planned to show it in Las Vegas neers from industry, research cen- ICCE too. ters, and academia. Like the other But we hope to present to the par- CE conferences it will provide a Karlheinz ticipants not only the latest develop- forum for the researchers, system Brandenburg Ralf Schaefer ments of consumer electronics, but

10 IEEE Consumer Electronics Society Newsletter/Fall 2011 provide also a glance into one of Berlin, Germany and Europe’s most vibrant cities. The Professor emeritus GOLD members might extend the from HTW Berlin, welcome reception on the first University of evening with a visit of an interesting Applied Sciences place in the city. We will have a con- Berlin. Research ference dinner at the Berlin Hotel activities led him to Seehof, nearby the conference place, the Courant Institute of Mathemati- were traditionally well known artists Niels F. Nissen Karsten Schischke cal Sciences (NYU) New York; stay. The terrace allows a nice view CALTEC in Pasadena; Old Domin- on a lake surrounded by green the ion University in Virginia and ICSI middle of the city. at Berkeley University in California. Hans L. Cycon has been leading The ICCE-Berlin Team: several projects in developing The local team in Berlin i.e. Hans wavelet-based still image and video Cycon, Thomas Schmidt, Matthias compression codecs. He is senior Wählisch, and Horst Schwetlick member of the IEEE and member of work in close contact with Charlotte the German delegation on the ITU/ Kobert and Stefan Mozar. The Berlin Wayne Rifer Reinhard Moeller ISO standardization committee for team members know each other JPEG 2000 still image standard. from common research projects at Work. Also Thomas Schmidt has the HTW, University of Applied Sci- organized several Conferences. Horst Schwetlick, ences in Berlin. Thomas Schmidt conference chair of war the former leader of the HTW Matthias Wählisch, ICCE Berlin, senior computer center, Matthias Wählisch publications chair, member of the IEEE, a researcher in many of its projects. started his profes- teaches since 1995 at Hans Cycon and Horst Schwetlick sional activities at the the HTW-Berlin, Uni- worked as Professors at the depart- the computer center versity for Applied ment of at the department of Electri- of the FHTW Berlin Sciences. His interest in Audio and cal Engineering. while at high school Video technology lead him to study and is the cofounder of link-lab, a EE and acoustics at the Technical Now T h o m a s start-up company in the field of next University Berlin and at Cornell Schmidt, the program generation networking. His major University USA. He visited the chair of ICCE Berlin, fields of interest lie in efficient and Kyoto and Tokyo Institutes of Tech- is a well known scien- reliable Internet communication. nology in Japan with a Humboldt tist and Professor at Matthias won several awards and and JSPS post doc fellowship, and the HAW Hamburg, has been on the TPC of several inter- spent sabbatical terms at research University of Applied national conferences and workshops. departments of Schlumberger Tx, Sciences and since 2004 he is Profes- USA, and Siemens, Munich, Ger- sor of Computer Networks & Internet Hans L. Cycon, vice chair and treas- many. His research interests include Technologies at HAW Hamburg, urer of ICCE Berlin and chair of the particular signal processing and Department of Informatik. He is a German section of the CE society, is wireless communications in the regular Contributor to IETF/IRTF Associate Director of Daviko GmbH scope of consumer electronics.

IEEE Consumer Electronics Society Newsletter/Fall 2011 11 IFA 2011 – Get in touch Product premieres and innovations from around the world Berlin, 2–7 September 2011

The IFA is the host of the IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics ICCE-Berlin 2011. The conference takes place close to the ground of the IFA in the International Congress Center Berlin (ICC). All participants will get a ticket to visit the IFA during one of the first two conference days. IFA in Berlin, the global trade show for consumer electronics and home appliances, presents the latest products and innovations in the heart of Europe‘s most important regional market. Only IFA offers such a comprehensive overview of the international market and attracts the attention of trade visitors each year from more than 100 countries. IFA is the main meeting place for key retailers, buyers, and experts from industry, trade and the media. IFA is your personal chance to get the latest information first-hand. Don‘t miss the opportunity to explore emerging trends in the IFA iZone and IFA eLibrary and celebrate the premieres of new technologies and products. Get in touch – with IFA 2011 innovations. IFA – International Keynotes IFA International Keynotes provide a platform for top managers from the consumer electronics and home appliance sectors. This is where you can meet leading CEOs and visionaries and learn about trends, innovations, and global product developments. Turn knowledge into your competitive edge! IFA – TecWatch IFA TecWatch is the platform for innovation, the IFA future lab for technologies and applications in the consumer electronics and home appliance industries. This is where you can explore key global issues in the context of institutional and industrial research. Take a look behind the scenes and discover today the products and solutions of tomorrow. IFA – DisplaySearch Business Conference Join international TV industry experts, manufacturers, and suppliers as they discuss market analyses, trends, and future technologies. This is the place to acquire essential knowledge and cutting-edge expertise in the European and global display market. Get in touch – with knowledge and trends!

Venue Messedamm 22, 14055 Berlin, Germany Berlin Exhibition Grounds IFA Hotline: Tel. +49(0)30/30696924 Messe Berlin GmbH, www.ifa-berlin.com

12 IEEE Consumer Electronics Society Newsletter/Fall 2011 From the President continued from page 3

Meeting in Seoul, South Korea from left to right: First row: Gabsoo Han, Ph.D., Vice President, Samsung Seong Dae Kim, Ph.D., President of The Members of the National Taiwan University (NTU), National Taiwan Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea (IEEK) Stephen Dukes Stefan Normal University and National Chung Hsing University; First row: Mozar Second row: Joonki Paik, Ph.D., Business Administration Manager Stefan Mozar Stephen Dukes Liang-Gee Chen, Ph.D. National of IEEK and Prof., Joongang University Kukjin Chun, Ph.D., President-Elect Professorship, Deputy Dean, College of EECS, NTU Professor Hase, of IEEK and R10 Vice-Chair of Membership Activities Kim Taechan, Ph.D., Ph.D. Yuh-Dauh Lyuu, Prof, Chairman & Deputy Dean, Dept of Master Image, Samsung Byeungwoo Jeon, Ph.D., Prof., Sung Kyun Kwan Computer Science & Info Eng, NTU Second row: Shao-Yi Chien, University Young Shik Moon, Ph.D., VP of IEEK and Prof., Hanyang Associate Professor of EE department NTU Wen-Chung Kao, Prof & University Sung-Jea Ko, Ph.D., VP of IEEK and Prof., Korea University Chairman, National Taiwan Normal University Homer H.Chen Prof NTU Chang-Su Kim, Ph.D., Chair of Seoul Section of IEEE and Prof., Korea Yen-Kuang Chen, Ph.D. Intel Yeong-Kang Lai, National Chung Hsing University, Professor Hase. University.

Prize-giving ceremony for best paper at ISCE 2011; Stephen Dukes and Thomas Coughlin, Gene Frantz and Stephen Dukes underneath the Stefan Mozar from CE Society in attendance. banner of the CECNet 2011 conference.

The meeting with the National Taiwan University in Taipei, Taiwan from left to right: First row: Prof. Hase, Ph.D. Stephen Dukes Liang-Gee Chen, Ph.D., Prof., Deputy Dean, College of EECS, National Taiwan University, Stefan Mozar Second row: Yen-Kuang Chen, Ph.D., Intel, Principal Engineer; From left to right, the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI): First Ming-Sui (Amy) Lee, Ph.D.; Assistant Professor NTU, Yeong-Kang Lai Ph.D.; row: Professor Hase, Ph.D. Stephen Dukes Gin-Kou Ma, Ph.D., CTO, IC Associate Prof., National Chung Hsing University; Wen-Chung Kao Ph.D. Design Group, ITRI Tihao Chiang, Ph.D., Professor, National Chiao Tung Professor & Chairman, National Chung Hsing University. University Second row: David Chang Vincent Hsu Jan Chiou.

IEEE Consumer Electronics Society Newsletter/Fall 2011 13 India in 2010 and give a parks of its kind in the distinguished lecture world, today. and recognize the first In each of the meet- CE Chapter in Bangalore, ings in South Korea and India. Taiwan, we formally In my last trip to presented the IEEE CE Asia, Professor Hase, Society. A copy of this Vice President for Inter- presentation can be national Strategy, Stefan The following were in attendance at the LG Electronics facility from left to right: requested from myself Chang-Su Kim, Ph.D., Chair of Seoul Section of IEEE and Professor, Korea Mozar, Vice President at [email protected] or University Professor Sung-Jea Ko, Ph.D. Stefan Mozar Stephen Dukes, Taeg il for Conferences, and Cho, Vice President / Director of Convergence R&D Laboratory / Corporate Charlotte Kobert, Exec- myself met with IEEE R&D / LG Electronics Inc., Professor Hase, Ph.D. Kyung Woo Hong, Senior utive Assistant for the CE Society members in Manager / Leader of Tech Alliance Group / Corporate R&D / LG Electronics Inc. IEEE CE Society, at Seoul, Korea, concern- [email protected]. ing additional papers for Transac- facilities will serve as an excellent We anticipate the GCCE 2012 will tions and CE magazine, recruit facility for the ISCE 2013 Conference. be extremely successful with more Associate Editors, increase CE mem- I encourage you to mark your calen- than 750papers expected. I men- bership, GCCE 2012 TPC participa- dars and attend the ISCE 2013 Con- tioned in the CE Newsletter in tion, ISCE 2012 attendance and ference in Hsin-Chu, Taiwan. Spring 2011 issue, that Dr. Tomohiro papers, a future conference in Korea, In the meetings held in Taiwan, Hase, Vice President, International participation in hallway activities Stefan Mozar discussed the ISCE Strategy, and I had meet with three and demonstrations at ICCE 2012 2012 in Hersey, Pennsylvania and technical societies in Japan. On and ICCE Berlin 2012, keynote Dr. Hase provided an overview of October 6th, Professor Hase, Stefan speakers and chapter growth. the GCCE 2012 to be held in Tokyo. Mozar and I will participate in the We met with the IEE Korea Soci- Stefan presented details on the CEATEC press conference to intro- ety to discuss an IEEE sister agree- upcoming ICCE Berlin 2012 Confer- duce Global Conference on Con- ment between the two societies and ence to be held in Berlin, Germany sumer Electronics (GCCE) 2012 to be potential joint conferences, initially, in September 6th–8th and ICCE 2012 held in Tokyo October of next year. with a technical co-sponsor arrange- to be held in Las Vegas, Nevada in The ICCE 2011 held in Las Vegas ment. Future mutual agreements January of 2012. While each of these was our most successful conference, may include a CE conference in conferences has a different venue or to date. The International Confer- Korea. Samsung executives, includ- agenda, a universal theme exists to ence on Consumer Electronics is ing Gabsoo Han, Vice President and discuss and present new develop- held annually adjacent to the Inter- Kim Taechan, Master Image, and ments in the rapidly growing field of national CES show in Las Vegas, several Professors from Sung Kyun consumer electronics. Nevada. We continue to align the Kwan University, Hanyang Univer- We, also, met with professors at conference to closely associate with sity, Chung-Ang University and National Taiwan University, National the CES and provide a technical Korea University, Seoul National Chiao Tung University, National venue for those involved with the University, the IEEE CE Seoul Chap- Chung Hsing University and Indus- show, along with those actively ter participated in this meeting. trial Technology Research Institute attending the Show. The ICCE venue Later, we met with LG Research (ITRI). During these meetings we dis- continues expand with hallway ses- and Development executives, cussed the conferences, need for sions and adjacent efforts with other including Taeg il Cho, Vice President authors, TPC reviewers and confer- societies. We encourage you to and Chief Technology Officer to ence organizers. We also requested the attend the ICCE 2012 in Las Vegas. review the criteria for a CE confer- need to review papers from confer- The IEEE CE Society is promoting ence in Korea. This series of meet- ences in China to aid the TPC with the the growth of conferences in regions ings in South Korea was successful. large number of paper submissions. responsible for development of con- After Seoul, Korea, we traveled to ITRI works closely with academia sumer electronic products, such as, Taipei and Hsin-Chu, Taiwan to and industry to create an incubator Asia and Europe. With our new con- meet with IEEE CE General Chair for new technology and applications ferences we will be able to provide and conference organizers of for Taiwan. We toured the Taiwan Sci- more local events for our members. recently names ISCE 2013 to discuss ence Park where many of these This includes not only academic the logistics of the conference to be research efforts are now exist. UMC activities, but also presentations, held at the National Chiao Tung Uni- and TSMC fabrication facilities are tutorials and workshops that relate to versity in Hsin-Chu. The conference, located. I must say the Taiwan Science the applied side of consumer speaker preparation area and break Park is one of the most impressive electronics. The CE Society now

14 IEEE Consumer Electronics Society Newsletter/Fall 2011 includes, not only, a five to six page important part of stabilizing and Point presentation to a conference, a peer review technical paper, but a growing the CE Society in each hallway presentation at one of our two page non-peer reviewed paper region of the world. conferences, joining a CE Chapter, and a peer reviewed PowerPoint pre- I request you give consideration to becoming involved with one of the sentations. The peer reviewed confer- submitting a peer reviewed technical CE Society Committees or consider- ence papers and PowerPoint paper to the IEEE Transactions on ing election to the CE Administrative presentations are published in the Consumer Electronics or the CE Mag- Committee (AdCom). We welcome IEEE Xplore. The conferences are an azine, a technical paper or a Power- your comments and participation.

CONFERENCE FOCUS – IGIC 2011

Special Panels, Speakers and Exploration Tours Tom Coughlin, Publicity Chairman, and Newton Lee, Exploration Chairman

The 2011 IEEE Inter- national Games Innovation Confer- ence is November 2–4, 2011 at Chap- man University in Orange, California. This 3 day event is sponsored and organized by the IEEE Consumer Electronics Society and we are accepting industrial presentations beyond the deadlines of academic paper submissions. This will be the third of these conferences and this year’s event will be bigger than any A tour of Team-Disney Building will be one of the exploration activities at IGIC2011 of the prior conferences. More information about the industry submis- sion is available from the conference son from the University of Southern out-of-Conference web page at: http://ice-gic.ieee.cesoc.org. California, USA, Michael Liebe from scheduling. He is the In addition to several sessions Mediaboard Berlin-Brandenburg organizer of a tour to with regular industry and academic GmbH, Germany, and Flavio Escrib- the Disney Research presentations there will be keynote ano from ARSGAMES, Spain. Lab in Glendale on speeches by Trip Hawkins, Founder There are additional panels orga- November 1, 2011 of Electronic Arts, 3DO and Digital nized by Jim Parker from the Uni- (afternoon before the Chocolate; Robert J. Mical, formerly versity of Calgary on “University Conference) and a with Sony, Craig Hampel from Ram- Curriculum Development Feeding tour to the Disney Worldwide Head- bus and Ohad Shvueli from the Games Industry,” and a panel on quarters in Burbank on November 4, PrimeSense (inventors of the Kinect digital storage in games, “No Stor- 2011 (immediately after the Techni- technology). age—No Games” organized by Tom cal Program.) The Glendale facility Also there are several newly com- Coughlin of Coughlin Associates. A tour will focus on latest Disney mitted panels on important topics tutorial by Adrian David Cheok of research projects whereas the Bur- for modern games. There is an inter- the National University of Singapore bank facility tour will focus on the national panel on “Playing with and Keio University will discuss history of Disney. Space is limited to Reality, Alternative Reality Games, “Culture, Leaning and Play in Our the first 20 registered. Urban and Serious Play” that is led Radically Connected Era.” Those wishing to attend should by Patricia Gouveia from Universi- check the web site for registration, dade Lusofona de Humanidades e Newton Lee, co-author of Disney http://ice-gic.ieee-cesoc.org/2011/registra- Tecnologias, Portugal, which will Stories: Getting to Digital (2011), is tion.htm. More details can be obtained include Darren O’Donnell from the the Exploration Chairman of IGIC by contacting Charlotte Kobert at Tendency Group, Canada, Jeff Wat- 2011, fostering out-of-box thinking, [email protected].

IEEE Consumer Electronics Society Newsletter/Fall 2011 15 IEEE

A REVIEW OF POPULAR GAMES CONFERENCES

The advancement in Games Tech- 7) Advertisers to Connect with nology, Applications and Media Millennials Delivery has been drawing main- 8) The Future of Gaming: 3D? stream publicity in recent years. The 9) Gaming, Film and Television IEEE Consumer Electronics Society’s involvement in this field has • Games Developers Conference – expanded in the last 3 years with the GDC (http://www.gamasutra.com/ sponsorship and organization of the php-bin/news_index.php?story=33379) Games Innovation Conferences. As The Game Developers Conference we put together the program for the Narisa Chu – Michael Fahy – is vast and popular and it addresses 3rd International Games Innova- Executive Local Arrangement the art and science of making games. tion Conference in Orange, CA on Chairwoman Chairman GDC 2011 hosted a record 19,000 November 2–4, 2011, it behooves us game industry professionals at San to know the landscape, engage in Lisbon, Portugal, November 8–11, Francisco’s Moscone Convention Cen- state-of-the-art discussion, and rec- 2011. (8th year. ;900 on-site register for the 25th edition of this confer- ognize the trends of Games Technol- tration) Sponsor: the Association ence. GDC offered ~ 450 lectures, ogy evolution, specifically for CE for Computing Machinery (ACM) panels, summits, tutorials and round professionals’ growth. table discussions. Lecture highlights We summarize the latest status Highlights for these events are pro- include ~ 15 tutorials and summits: of five Conferences, in the field of vided below: notable among them: Rovio’s Peter games, where we have had first- • LA Games Conference (http://www. Vesterbacka discussing the Angry hand exposure in terms of location, lagamesconference.com/) Birds phenomenon (GDC Smartphone publicity, participation, and/or direct The 5th LA Games Conference, Summit), Zynga’s Mark Skaggs on involvement in technical paper sponsored by the Digital Media Wire going from FarmVille to CityVille reviews. (DMW) was well organized and (Social & Online Games Summit), 1) Los Angeles Games Conference, attended with more than 300 people game designer and author Jane April 26, 2011. Orientation: Games and a versatile group of speakers on McGonigal on ‘gamefulness’ (Serious Marketing (5th year, $699 on-site marketing and business development Games Summit), and Super Meat Boy’s registration, attendance: ~ 300) of games into the digital age. Debates creators on their rough route to suc- Sponsor: Digital Media Wire. and product announcement took cess (Independent Games Summit). 2) Game Developers Conference, place in lively settings covering This is one of the oldest and most February 28–March 4, 2011, San media, entertainment and technol- popular conferences for Games pro- Francisco. Orientation: Games ogy. Realizing that the Game indus- fessionals. Development (25th year, $2,100 on- try was gathering tremendous site registration, attendance ~ momentum, this film based audience • Electronic Entertainment Expo – 19,000) Sponsor: United Business got into Games discussion in a E3 (http://www.e3expo.com/press- Media. dynamic way. The conference release/post/341/e3-2011-propels-video- 3) Electronic Entertainment Expo – included debates about Facebook as a games-to-center-stage/) E3, Los Angeles, June 7–9, 2011. Gaming Platform as opposed to dedi- Nearly 47,000 video game industry Orientation: Games Product cated platforms such as Microsoft’s professionals, investor analysts, and Promotion (200th Show, multiple X-Box. More than 60 speakers shared 120 retailers attended the Electronic shows/locations each year, $500 their views on a single day across Entertainment Expo – E3, 2011, run by full registration, attendance: ~ topics including: the Entertainment Software Associa- 47,000) Sponsor: Entertainment 1) Gaming Trends around the World tion (ESA.) E3 projects a global com- Software Association. by Analysts puter and video game trade show 4) Westwood Games Conference, 2) Gaming in the Cloud with ~ 200 exhibitors unveiling their “The Gathering of Video Legends,” 3) Selling Games in 2011 and Beyond latest interactive entertainment hard- Anaheim, California, June 25, 4) The Smartphone and Tablet ware and software that are targeted 2011. Orientation: Education (3rd Revolution for store shelves by the end of 2011. year, free, attendance: ~ 400) 5) How to Succeed in Selling Virtual E3 is a product show case. It is ded- Sponsor: Westwood College. Goods for Games and Social icated to serving the business and 5) Advancements in Computer Networks public affairs needs of the companies Entertainment Technology (ACE) 6) Viral Gaming publishing interactive games for video

18 IEEE Consumer Electronics Society Newsletter/Fall 2011 Table 1–A Survey of Popular Games Conferences in 2011. Registration Name Dates Location Orientation Years Participants Sponsor On-site IGIC 11/1–11/4 Orange, CA, R & D Academia & 3 $700 N/A IEEE CE USA Industry ACE 11/7–11/11 Lisbon, R & D 8 900; N/A ACM Portugal E3 6/7–6/9 Los Angeles, Product 200th* $500 47,000 ESA CA, USA Promotion Westwood 6/5 Anaheim CA, Education 3 - 400 Westwood USA College LA Games 4/26 Los Angeles, Marketing 5 $699 300 DMW CA, USA GDC 2/28–3/4 San Francisco, Development 25 $2,100 19,000 UBM CA, USA *Multiple locations per year game consoles, handheld devices, Blizzard Entertainment, Infinite from their Call for Papers of nearly personal computers, and the Internet. Monkey Factory, Gaikai, Say Design, 160 submissions. Said Michael D. Gallagher, Presi- Video Games Live, and Way For- What differentiate the IGIC2011 dent and CEO of the ESA: E3…“to ward. Career advice was offered to from ACE are: have propelled video games to the attendees interested in entering the 1) IGIC covers not only software, but pinnacle of the entertainment world gaming industry. hardware, system, and specifically with combination of industry’s inno- wireless networking that facilitates vation, creativity, and excitement. • ACE – Advances in Computer the latest games interface among The latest E3 has shown that video Entertainment Technology (h t t p :// game consoles, TV and handsets. games are proven a dominant force www.ace2011.org/) 2) IGIC provides follow-up high-qual- in entertainment and are changing As it reaches the 8th edition, ACE ity publication opportunity in IEEE the way people live, work, and play.” has become one of the leading scien- Consumer Electronic Transaction. tific forums for dissemination of cut- 3) IGIC focuses on industry and aca- • Westwood College Games Con- ting-edge research results in the area demic research knowledge trans- ference – The Gathering of Video of entertainment computing recog- fer engaging industry patron to Legends (http://gamepolitics. nizing that interactive entertainment work hand-in-hand with univer- com/2011/06/24/westwood-college-hosting- is one of the most vibrant areas of sity faculties. gathering-video-game- legends-june-25) interest and is among the fastest 4) IGIC Calls for Slide Presenta tions Third in its annual conference, this growing industries. Similar to IGIC, – most accommodating to indus- one-day event provided attendees ACE 2011 is working on bringing try participants. (many of them, Westwood College stu- together leading researchers and 5) IGIC takes place near Hollywood dents majoring in Game Art or Game practitioners from academia and (the world capital of films) and Software Development) with an oppor- industry to present their innovative Disneyland (the first amusement tunity to interact one-on-one with lead- work and discuss all aspects and park.) ing professionals in the industry. challenges of interactive entertain- 6) IGIC and ACE do not seem to have Speakers discussed several aspects of ment technology, in a cool and stim- overlapping audience so far. There the gaming industry including: ulating environment. Similar to are attempts to work together on • The influence of technology on big IGIC, ACE is by nature a multi-disci- future peer-reviewed publications. budget games plinary conference whose atten- These conferences, summarized in • The secret to making casual games dance goes across a wide spectrum Table 1, all considered relevant to successful of interests and disciplines including IGIC, provide in-depth guidelines • The future of mobile gaming computer science, design, arts, soci- and insights into Games research, There was an impressive lineup of ology, anthropology, psychology, development and industrialization. Games Legends including those and marketing. The IGIC 2011 has taken advantage from Sony Computer Entertainment, Similar to IGIC, ACE has just of experiences and observations Armor Games, Realities Unlimited, completed a successful paper review from these conferences to aid in

IEEE Consumer Electronics Society Newsletter/Fall 2011 19 achieving CE Societies strategic ogy, usability, arts and social sci- shown in the preceding pages, high- directions in driving Games technol- ences for advancements in Games. lighting work by the Organizing ogy, aligning education and industry Thus, IGIC2011 programs will be Committee in reaching these goals. innovations to integrate computers, exciting, some of which are dis- For updates of IGIC2011, please communications, wireless technol- played in 2 announcements, as access http://ice-gic.ieee-cesoc.org

DOWN MEMORY LANE

Editor’s Society to meet your present and future background information and some personal Introduction needs. insight into those who you have chosen to Hi CE Society members. Now many of you will have voted in the represent your profession through IEEE. One mission that I have Adcom elections, but not everyone. And, of This issue I am very happy to introduce been given as editor is to those who voted not all are fully aware of the Robin Bradbeer who is our Vice President make society members mandate and responsibility you have conferred (International Affairs) who liaises with the more aware of the Senior onto your fellow members. In many ways the Society chapters around the world as well as Volunteers who keep your society operating responsibility of being a member of the Adcom working with members to establish new and developing as a dynamic IEEE society. is equivalent to membership of a commercial chapters. She also helps promote the Society’s In many ways your society is like a busi- board of directors; in some ways it is even Distinguished Lecturer program. ness, operating with the support and mandate more challenging as the Adcom members have Robin has been a Professor in Hong Kong of the core IEEE organization. In the context the additional responsibility of professional University since the late 1980’s. Prior to this of this business analogy YOU, the society leadership within this professional commu- she was involved in the very early days of the members, are the customers and this society it nity. It is not simply a mandate to run the microcomputer revolution. Here we provide targeted to meet your needs as an engineering business effectively and responsibly; it is also a Robin’s short biography followed by a series professional. But it is more than a business, it mandate from your profession and peers. Each of two articles that she wrote for Practical is also a professional community and it is not Adcom member has some personal responsibil- Computing back in 1979. This was in the enough for the society to serve your needs, ity that extends beyond his or her society and very early days of the micro-computer revo- you need to become involved with and partici- IEEE itself and is, in actuality, a challenge to lution – before IBM finally got their act pate in the operational and decision-making represent their profession to society as a whole. together and launched the IBM PC. processes of your society. This is not a light responsibility to take Hopefully this insight into Robin and her As with any business or community on, and it is important that you, as a society broadly-ranging career in the micro-com- organization we have a board of directors, member, know a bit more about those who puter & consumer electronics industries will better known as the Adcom or “Adminis- represent you and your profession. Begin- inspire some of our early and mid-career trative Committee” of the society. These are ning with this issue of the Newsletter I’ll be members to consider volunteering for more your elected representatives and have a focusing on a different member of the CE active roles and participation in the IEEE CE mandate to operate and develop the CE Society Adcom each issue, giving you more Society.

MEET DR. ROBIN SARAH BRADBEER

"Dr. Bradbeer's contributions to the con- ing the CE Society, globally. In addition to the CE Society's efforts with IEEE MGA." tinued development and revitalization of her professionalism on the CE AdCom. - Stephen Dukes, President, IEEE CE Chapters has been a critical part of grow- Robin has also been active in supporting Society

Dr Robin Bradbeer thesis on evaluating the effective- around computer-based learning graduated from Sur- ness of web-based teaching and principles in 1976. rey University, UK learning. Dr Bradbeer has an extensive with a BSc(Hons) in Dr Bradbeer has had extensive background in the computer and Electrical Engineer- involvement with computer-based communications industry, from edit- ing in 1967, and an education since the late 1970s. She ing Educational Computing (UK) in MPhil in Semicon- first used a computer as part of the early 1980s, when she also wrote ductor Electronics in 1973. She undergraduate course in 1964, built many articles for the serious press obtained her doctorate at Durham her first computer with students in (Times, Guardian etc) and broadcast University, UK in 2006 with a 1973, and designed her first course media in the UK on computers and

20 IEEE Consumer Electronics Society Newsletter/Fall 2011 education, a number of books Times Non-fiction list for 3 months designed for schools and teachers, as in 1981. well as helping to produce numer- Robin has been involved with net- ous video/TV programs for use in worked computing since the mid 80s promoting IT in schools. She orga- and started one of the first web based nized the first two Educational Com- courses at CityU in the early 90s. She puting Conferences in UK in 1982–3. has been a believer in Internet-based During this period she also education for nearly twenty years, worked as a consultant to many and has promoted research into the international computer companies, effectiveness as a tool for education. including HP, Sinclair, Commodore She has been a director of a number and Acorn. She established IGR Ltd of companies over the past 30 years, in 1983 to design and build “turtles” mainly technology based, both in UK for use in primary schools using and Hong Kong. LOGO; worked with Seymour Pap- She first started working in Hong Automation/Control Systems Societ- ert in developing LOGO as a teach- Kong in the mid 80s when she ran ies Joint Chapter in Hong Kong. She ing language. She was also Personal her own technical consultancy there. was also one of the founders of the Adviser to the Director of UK Currently she is Deputy Chair of the International Symposium on Con- National Computer Centre 1980– Board of Directors of the Hong Kong sumer Electronics (ISCE) being con- 1986, specifically in the area of edu- Internet Registration Corporation – ference Chair twice, as well as local cational computing, and was a the registry for the .hk domain. organizing Chair for the 2010 Games member of the Consultative Group Whilst at CityU Robin taught Innovation Conference. Robin has developing an educationally based Electronics for Mechatronic Product published over 20 books, and over 60 computer system to complement the Design on the Mechatronic Engi- conference and journal papers. She is BBC’s Computer Program (The BBC neering degree course; her research currently Chair of the IET Hong computer – later adopted as the and development work focused on Kong Branch. She retired from City basic system for use in most UK remote sensing, mainly in the University as an Associate Professor schools). She co-authored the book marine environment, including in June 2010, and is an Adjunct Pro- complementing the BBC TV pro- underwater robotics, using low cost fessor at the University of Southern gram – The Computer Book – that consumer electronics components. Queensland, Australia. She started, became the basic introductory text in Robin has been active in the IEEE and is now organizer, of the Hong UK schools. Over 400,000 copies sold for over 20 years, being founding Kong Underwater Robot Challenge, in the UK, with 10 foreign language chair of both the Consumer Electron- the regional contest of the MATE editions. #1 best-seller in Sunday ics Society Chapter and Robotics and International ROV Competition.

THE NON-KIT COMPUTER

PRACTICAL COMPUTING questions are about ideas, develop- April 1979 ments, trends and opinions. ROBIN BRADBEER spent a few Long before Apple began. I was hours with Steve Wozniak, inventor working at Hewlett-Packard, design- of Apple computers, some weeks ing calculators. Round about that time ago. Today, Apple is one of the suc- in 1974, I became interested in video cess stories of the microcomputer games. Atari and other companies business. It is rich and independent, were beginning to put their video and its problems are those of over- games into coffee bars, bars, restau- demand, a rather pleasant position rants and similar places. So I thought for a company. I’d try to design my own version of Two years ago Apple was two them – I was one of those guys who guys and an idea in a garage. If you was always playing around with these want to tune-in to commercial success things as my hobby. This led on to a in the home computer world, read on. couple of other projects, chess displays The Interview is in two parts. We and things like that. begin with Steve’s story about the That naturally led to the video ter- birth of Apple. In the next part the minal. There’s not much more to

IEEE Consumer Electronics Society Newsletter/Fall 2011 21 just didn’t know what was going on – I’d never been into this hobby world at all; what I was doing was working on calculator chips which were a totally different style of microprocessor. I felt a trifle out of it, but I attended a few meetings and began to get to know what was going on. Then I heard that Chuck Peddle (MOS Technologies) was to sell micros over the counter for around $20 at an electronics trade fair. In the HP lab there were two of us really interested in this type or thing and we went there to buy ourselves some microprocessors. Now the only micro with which I’d really had any experience up to that time was the 6800. In fact, I had designed on paper a complete system based around the 6800, but Chuck was selling the 6502. When we went through the instruction set, found out everything it had and everything it didn’t have, we were left with a question – what do you do with a computer? I realised that Basic was the language which was becoming more and more popular, so I tried to write a Basic compiler with a few things of my own. A friend wrote an Algol program which ran on a HP2000 mini and simulated the 6502 chip, so I was able to write the guts of the Basic compiler. It eventually became Figure 1: Early advertisement for the Apple I micro-computer. our Integer Basic. Making it Work learn to build one of those after duced. My video terminal was The next step was to design a sys- you’ve built a chess display. I looked almost finished and a friend men- tem. There was this video terminal through the data books and found the tioned that some people locally were on my desk, so I put the micropro- appropriate shift registers. My about to start a club for those cessor on it with enough circuitry trademark is designing small, tight interested. to make it work as a system. I circuits – this helps to solve many Microprocessors I didn’t know interfaced it to some RAMs, put a problems later on – by keeping all the the first thing about; video terminals ROM monitor on it and powered logic very close together. I was able to I did. So I became one of the found- up the thing. It started to interact design and build a very simple video ers of a club which consisted initially with the keyboard and I could get terminal. of 40 people sitting in a garage with it to go to various memory loca- the rain pouring outside. tions; it was a very basic first-level Terminal Start system. Of course, all this was taking place Working on Chips There were still a couple of bugs; while I was still with HP – and none We were sitting discussing micropro- for example, I forgot to clear the dec- of it was for HP. About that time, the cessors – which micro had this fea- imal mode on the 6502 which every- Altair computer had just been intro- ture and which had that. Honestly, I one does when they first run it. I

22 IEEE Consumer Electronics Society Newsletter/Fall 2011 took my compiler which was working on the simulator and loaded it in and that sat in the RAM. Now that I had my system I had to do some more software. So I had to work out more and more of the Basic. While this was going on every few weeks the club would meet and I’d go down to show off the latest. I got good at typing-in hex; I had no development aids, no cassette recorder, no floppy disc, no assem- blers, so it was all done on paper and hand-coded. I was pass 1, I was pass 2, I was the linking loader, I was the text editor, I was everything: I became very good at working out the op-codes in my head and putting it all down on paper. At about that time I contracted asthma or something. This rather Just two kids, some circuit boards and a garage. . .. helped me to develop things because I couldn’t sleep: I would get up in the middle of the night and boards which were fully-stocked Stores were springing-up all over work. with the chips. the country and the Apple was a The friend I mentioned before had The order was from the local Byte different product from the others built his own system as well. My Shop. By arranging credit properly around. It wasn’t a completely fin- idea was the single-card system. He we were able to get all the compo- ished product like the Apple 2 – it went for the more traditional route nents we needed to build the boards. was just a board with a micropro- most people were taking which was Then we went and sold than on the cessor, 8k of memory and a video slot-based and bus-structured—the date for which the purchase order terminal. CPU was just one of the cards, the was made out and were able to pay I think we were the first people to memory was another. our creditors. It was a very neat us the 4K dynamic RAMs which I was still making hand-wired operation. We were able to turn the were coming in at the time, so the bread-boards. Then this friend of whole thing around very fast, in less Apple I used a lot less power and mine, Steve Jobs, said why don’t we than a month. That put us in busi- cost much less. With Apple I begin- make a few boards like this and sell ness – in a garage. ning to make an impression, we them? Our original idea was to We decided to call the company needed a cassette interface. That was build about 50 blank boards, take Apple. Steve was working at a place our second product; it was a really them to the club, hold them up in called Apple Orchard, or something fast development. We couldn’t do it the air and say “Is anybody inter- like that, in Oregon. It’s a really great so fast now – it took about a month. ested in buying one of these name – it’s one of those names March 1976 was when we boards?” which sticks. formed the partnership and started We used the garage for a year selling the computers. In June, I First Big Order and we didn’t move too many started on the Apple II which was I sold my HP calculator and Steve computers, about 200; but it was designed to do all the things Apple sold his van and we used the money the name which sold, and we I could do, but better. I was also to hire a printed circuit artist to lay- started advertising in the national very interested in color video. out the boards. While we were magazines. It proved almost impossible to thinking about making the first design a simple colur circuit for the boards, Steve received a telephone Fast Development Apple I, so I decided to start com- call to place a $25,000 order for 50 Of course, all this is on the side, and pletely with a new system and in complete computers, fully built. We I’m still working at HP. I got a for- fact everything turned out cleaner. were planning to sell only blank mal legal release from HP to allow The whole thing was still built as a boards but these were orders for me to do this sort of thing. single stand-alone system.

IEEE Consumer Electronics Society Newsletter/Fall 2011 23 I had designed a game for Atari through, and as we called Breakout, so I wrote another were one of the few to version of it with graphics com- use this technology, it mands. About a day to write and a worked out to be very day to debug and two weeks of cost-effective in the modifying. I couldn’t believe how end. easy it was to write in Basic com- The final board pared to assembly language. design for the Apple II We took this to Atlantic City in was done around September for our first Computer November, 1976. It Fair, PC 76. appeared eventually as a product about April, ‘Beautiful’ 1977. We didn’t have a We came across this Advent projec- case designed. tor television and thought it would Carl Helmers of Byte he really neat if we could try the magazine got interested Apple II on the color projector TV at this time. He was to see what it would look like. We keen on having a small hooked the Apple II to this projec- computer you could tor and threw it up on the screen take home and plug in, and it looked just beautiful. rather like a piece of The guy in the booth said “I want hi-fi equipment. one of those”. Remember it was still A semi-clothed Apple-II; note the neat PCB design a hand-wired breadboard at that Straight Lines reflecting Wozniak’s tidy design expertise. stage. That told us something. Sur- We took the hand- rounded by all the fantastic video drawn work and digi- and computer equipment, this guy tized it into the computer. The News of the product had started wanted ours. lines came out perfectly straight getting out. For example, I was Things were going really well. and the board looks better because going to Los Angeles to demonstrate We were coming up with high-reso- the lines are all straight. the Apple I to a group there and I lution graphics and the 16K RAM Meanwhile, the garage was filling forgot the transformers or some- was coming along. In fact we with racks and test equipment and thing like that. All I had with me started using 16K RAMs on the there was no way that we were was an Apple II which I could dem- Apple I. I think we might have been going to be able to do the Apple II in onstrate. So I showed that. It was the first people to sell 16K RAMs for there. There just weren’t enough of still in breadboard form but there a computer as an extension to the us involved. We might have gone were about a dozen people at that Apple I. under; we could just not have met meeting and eight of them ordered the demand. Apple IIs. More Natural The Apple II was probably the first small computer to use 16K RAMs as well. We feel we’ve kept up with the RAM technology all the way

Apple-II in its plastic case – a first for the industry at that time! Early computer vision for the Apple-II.

24 IEEE Consumer Electronics Society Newsletter/Fall 2011 it, so we started to have about 110 employees now; we look for other people. also place a lot of contracts outside; Steve met the guy so there are now many people work- who is now our mar- ing just on Apple – the total could be keting manager; he nearer to 200 full-time if you take worked for Intel. these other companies into account Then we hired another guy who More Natural was a friend of the We started slowly and that was a marketing manager good thing. We had some really and he became pres- good exposure in the Press. We took ident. He had been on a good advertising agency – running a division of that’s one of the first things we did – National Semi, and the thing just took off from where he had a lot of there. responsibility. His Apple was beginning to be job was to keep an accepted; it was a more natural sort eye on the dollars of product and it wasn’t considered and cents. a brand new product any more – He’s still our pres- remember that at that time there ident. As for me, I were many companies coming out was still working for with really neat-looking products HP until the first which might well be advertised in quarter of 1977. We perhaps five issues of a magazine hired two more engi- and then disappear. neers, including one So we finally made it to that Early advertisement for the full color Apple-II. guy from Atari who point where our momentum was had a superb ana- going to carry us. We knew we We knew we had an exciting logue background. We’re now add- were going to survive unless some- product and just knew we could sell ing about 10 people a week still. We thing very drastic happened.

APPLE DESIGNER MUSES ON THE MICRO COMPETITION

Practical Computing RB: Surely they’re slightly different May 1979 concepts? The first part of our interview with SW: They are based on the same Steve Wozniak, founder of Apple principle – a low-cost computer for the Computer and principal designer home, ready-to-use, plug-in-and-go, of its products, ranged last month good manuals. Many of the new-com- over the background to Apple and ers fall down on good documentation; its meteoric rise. Our interviewer, even so we didn’t have good manuals Robin Bradbeer, then extracted in the beginning our-selves. We have from Steve some views and opin- them now – there’s no substitute for ions about the microcomputer good documentation. world. Honestly, though the capability of RB: Steve, you said you regarded the other two machines is just not as Apple II as “the first non-kit computer”. great. The development software Do you want to elaborate? available was just not as great, the SW: Well, now of course there’s application software was not in such the Commodore Pet and the Radio good shape, the machines have Shack TRS-80. We don’t really think video display limitations, they don’t those two have equaled our machine, have color, they don’t have high-res- certainly not in its capability. olution graphics. I still say we have

IEEE Consumer Electronics Society Newsletter/Fall 2011 25 the best graphics of any of the small generate higher resolutions and computers. more colours. They have dedicated more video RAMs to the system. Similar Approach Compucolor-2 – a rival home RB: How about the hobby machines fol- computer system to Apple II which lowing the S-100 approach? also featured full color video. SW: Processor Technology is an interesting case; the Sol took a sim- Compucolor originally wanted to ilar approach to the Apple I. It was come out with an $800 system which a keyboard which you just plugged had very limited colour graphics. into the video terminal. With But for some reason they haven’t Apple I you didn’t get a case; you been able to sell it. I think there are do with Sol but it’s based on a problems with the disc being so S-100 bus, and that’s the ways close to the CRT – perhaps they have things will go. Remember the origi- shielding problems, I don’t know. If nal Altairs were based around tele- Disc Important that machine had been built with printers, because that was how it RB: What do you think of the idea of Apple ideas, then I think it would had been for years. Now it’s video having the disc integral with the system, have been a real winner. which really caught on in the hob- rather as with the Compucolor 2? What the world is really looking byist world. The Sol is basically an SW: Yes, I like it. There are many for is the machine with the best 8080 system with the Processor advantages. The disc is so important, video resolution and the best colour Technology VDM board and a key- though. I remember when Shugart possible. When you think about it, board all in a nice case. It was the first came out with the floppy disc; I all it is is RAMs. It’s not more com- hottest things going because that’s was still with HP and we didn’t even plicated, its just how much RAM what people wanted. have the Apple I designed. you want to spend money on–and I think the term is “friendly”; Sol We looked at the Shugart manuals RAM is getting so cheap. looks like an integrated computer to design a very simple interface but RB: What do you think the next system. In fact, the Apple II almost we never really got round to it until generation of computers will have? For beat it, and when it came out it had a two years later, when we wanted to example what do you consider the little more going for it than the Sol. It expand the Apple II peripherals. We minimum RAM content of any personal had a plastic case, it was well- felt that a disc was what it really computer? designed, it looked more together, it needed, so I pulled out the old SW: Well 16K is our minimum had color graphics, of course, and it design and finally incorporated it. now. No-one in their right mind had the right RAMs. The floppy disc is really the way would order a 4K Apple. Disc oper- RB: You really pushed Apple II? to use the system. The minifloppy ating systems call for quite a bit of SW: I admit it – “Here it is, the is a real credit to Shugart and its RAM. The TRS-80 and the Pet are in first computer really suitable for the ingenuity. It was the first low-cost a rather difficult position because home”. The first advertisements peripheral of that power that really they were not really designed for showed the Apple II in somebody’s gives your a good system, and it’s up-grading like that to a helpful kitchen and people started buying it; so important for a personal com- memory capacity, but Apple II was that really put us on the road. It puter that it makes sense to build designed to plug 48K into the main really wasn’t until we came out with it in. board. That was unheard of. our disc that our sales really took off. Yes, I like the Compucolor I think we can see the time when We were the only people really approach; the concept is really good we’ll want more than 64K and that’s delivering a complete disc system. if they can get the manufacturing going to be a real problem with some and reliability right. of the current micro-processors. RB: It looks like they have taken a few of your ideas and incorporated them, More Storage the colour graphics in particular? RB: What do you think about the 16-bit SW: Well, Compucolor had a micro? machine out about the same time as SW: Well, we could go to one for the Apple II. It was a different style Apple. But then you have problems from the one it has now; it had with some of the current 16-bit rather more capability. The colour machines which don’t really address scheme is rather different. They have any more memory than the 8-bit a built-in CRT so they are able to micros, The Intel 8086, for instance,

26 IEEE Consumer Electronics Society Newsletter/Fall 2011 uses a segmentation scheme but you are still stuck with about 65K bytes in any one segment. RD: Zilog is talking about a lot more storage than that or the Z-8000, I believe? SW: Yes, they use a 23-bit addressing system with various different addressing modes. In fact that’s probably the first big step forward, But then if its available you want 256K bytes. If I generate an instruction which refers to a data field offset from some base register by up to 64K. I can use a normal 16-bit offset. If I exceed that, however, I can use a 23-bit offset and address as much memory as I want.

So hot Z-8000 micro-computer system from late 1970’s RB: When you were with HP did you meet its 16-bit microprocessor? SW: Before I left I saw a description of one called the MC2 that was in SOS. At the time they were talking about 7MHz operating speeds although It think it been reduced a little. The addressing modes and the instruction set looked to be very similar to other micro-processors around. If it had been released as a “hob- byist” type product it would have been so hot; it would really have caught on because it was so powerful. But HP used it only for internal use. There must be a couple of different processors running around the divisions of HP. RB: Isn’t it a shame HP doesn’t sell its processor products outside the company? SW: Yes. When I was beginning to get into processors HP had SOS and NMOS 16-bit chips going and would have been way ahead. HP isn’t a component manufacturer, though, and it would probably have been a bad move to enter the microprocessor component market. When the Z-80 appeared it was in advance on the other products around and Zilog went into the black within one year of producing it. It really sold like hot cakes. Zilog Datasheet of the Synertek 6502 - one of Woz’s favorite CPU’s!

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has a really good pulse on the mar- was a little better, and it was also you are using it, or is it because it is a ket and where it is heading. sold over the counter. Any micro- good processor? RB: Do you think that the memory processor with a reasonable instruc- SW: Well, Apple has done an awful management approach is one good way tion set could have been used Iot for the 6502. Now three companies of handling 16-bit machines? RB: Do you think that that was the are making it – Rockwell, Synertek SW: The Z-8000 is still a 16-bit bare way most personal computer manufac- and, of course, MOS Technology – it is address machine with a segment reg- turers chose their products? getting around the OEM world. ister. AI least you have the large offsets SW: Yes. Most of the small com- RB: How significant is Europe in available in the instruction set, if you puter manufacturers were starting your marketing? were coding in absolute. Now nobody when the Altair came out; Altair used SW: Europe is a significant pro- really codes in absolute any more. the 8080, and many followed them. portion of our sales, most of the sys- RB: Will you stay with 6502-based When I saw the 6502, I thought that It tems going into small businesses. In products – the first two machines both was really nifty, and l wanted to do the U.S. it’s more of a market for used this microprocessor? something which hadn’t been done personal computers in the home. SW: That was a total accident. before. It was largely accidental. But The TV video systems are different. RB: As it was the first chip you picked when the large companies step in PAL we can live with, it’s not too up? Would you have done the same they think about it – they are more different from NTSC – but the French things if somebody had given you a concerned about the supply than the system SECAM is another thing alto- 68000? raw performance. gether. Its a pity the world doesn’t use SW: It didn’t really matter. My the same video standard, though it is first version of the Apple I was Popularity doubtful if we’ll ever get one video designed with the 6800 but then I RB: The 6502 is becoming more and standard, the same as we probably read in a magazine that the 6502 more popular. Is this because people like won’t get one standard bus structure.

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CE Memory Lane ent version numbers and features. Thirty years ago, on July 27 1981, IBM released PC-DOS 6.1, and MS Microsoft bought the rights for followed quickly with MS-DOS 6.2. QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating IBM released PC-DOS 6.3 – and System) from Seattle Computer Novell trumped them all by releas- Products (SCP) for $25,000. QDOS, ing Novell DOS 7.0. In 1995, how- otherwise known as 86-DOS, was ever, Windows 95 with an designed by SCP to run on the Intel underpinning of MS-DOS 7.0 and its 8086 processor, and was originally new FAT32 file system was released, thrown together in just two months and the history of DOS draws to a for a 0.1 release in 1980. Meanwhile, close. Every other version of DOS IBM had planned on powering its was quickly squished out of exis- upcoming Personal Computer with tence by Windows 95, and it an Intel 8086-compatible version of wouldn’t be until the late 90s and the CP/M, which was the standard OS emergence of the Dot Com Bubble for Intel 8080 and other 8-bit archi- that another command-line OS I remember those 5” floppy disksl, Hercules tectures at the time, but a deal graphics cards and Notepad 1.0!. would yet again rise to prominence could not be struck with CP/M’s in the shape of Linux. developer, Digital Research. IBM Wikipedia has an excellent then approached Microsoft, which (alongside the IBM PC/AT), and account of the history of x86 DOS already had a few years of experi- MS-DOS 4.0 with a mouse-powered, operating systems2, and also a table ence under its belt with M-DOS1, menu-driven interface arrived in that compares and contrasts each of BASIC, and other important tools – 1989. It’s around this point that the different versions from IBM, MS, and as you can probably tell from IBM’s PC operating system, PC- Digital Research, and others. If the landscape of the computer DOS, began to diverge from MS- you’re interested in the original world today, the IBM/Microsoft DOS – and of course, come 1990, development of QDOS, check out its partnership worked out rather well Microsoft released Windows 3.0, creator’s blog3. indeed. which would change Microsoft’s IBM released its Personal Com- focus forever. It’s also around this Interactive & Web TV puter in August 1981 running ver- time that developers start to feel the sion 1.14 of SCP’s QDOS – but a few pinch of the 640KB conventional Returns Outpace months later Microsoft produced memory limit imposed by IBM’s Sales for Google TV MS-DOS 1.24, which then became original hardware specifications. Posted to http://online.wsj.com/ on 29th the standard IBM PC operating sys- Still, come 1991, MS-DOS 5.0 was July by John Letzing tem. In March 1983, both MS-DOS released (along with the much-loved Consumers dislike Google TV so 2.0 and the IBM PC/XT were QBASIC), and MS-DOS 6.0 with much that they are now giving the released. The rest, as they say, is his- much-maligned DoubleSpace disk tory. MS-DOS 3.0 followed in 1984 compression tool appeared in 1993. By this stage, IBM, Digital Research 2http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_ (DR-DOS), and Microsoft were all x86_DOS_operating_systems 1http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-DOS leapfrogging each other with differ- 3http://dosmandrivel.blogspot.com/

IEEE Consumer Electronics Society Newsletter/Fall 2011 29 product back. Gadgets that use the partners and users,” she said. The and even Facebook did not fare well. company’s Google TV software to company will provide users with an Not surprisingly, people don’t want connect televisions to the Internet updated version of Google TV later to type on their TV and the only are selling so poorly that one of this year, she said. social media that interests them is Google’s key partners disclosed (Read more: http://online.wsj.com/ related to content. Thursday that customer returns are article/SB10001424053111904800304576474581 Analyst Kevin Nolan says part of outpacing sales. 913302222.html#ixzz1ToSKc1dY) the challenge in the TV app universe Logitech International SA, which is that people still don’t know what makes the Revue set-top box and Interactive & Web TV these things are and how they work. special keyboard built on the search “Consumers want to know, ‘where is giant’s technology, said Revue reve- We Want TV Apps, But Only ‘Family Guy?’ where is ‘Doctor nue was “slightly negative” in the Those We Know! Who?’ and the TV app interface latest quarter as more units were Posted to http://www.mediapost.com/ on doesn’t help them to intuitively find returned than purchased. “There 4th August by Steve Smith what they are looking for. It’s little was a significant gap between our The age of the app is upon us, surprise then that they default back price and the value perceived by the and it is creeping to the TV set. to using apps/services that they are consumer,” explained Logitech Even as we wait for Google TV and familiar with from their smart-phone Chairman Guerrino De Luca, in a Apple TV finally to activate or PC experience.” conference call Thursday. Android and iOS app on their In fact, the presence of apps on In a bid to spur sales, Logitech respective devices, connected TV TVs may not change behaviors quite said it would lower the Revue’s sets are picking up momentum and in the way we might think. The price to $99 from $249. The Swiss may be capturing viewers’ hearts researchers found that “apps did company had earlier this year cut with their built-in apps. According not alter how much they watched, the price from $299. While Mr. De to a new ethnographic study by or even what they watched, it sim- Luca admitted his company mis- Strategy Analytics of a dozen own- ply provided them with more flexi- judged the market, he said: “We ers of connected TVs in the U.S. bility to watch their content when launched Revue with the expectation and UK, app love actually does and how they wanted,” says Nolan. that it would generate significant creep up on you in the living room. And that is what people are really sales growth in spite of a relatively None of the people studied in this after – flexibility, not discovery. high price point and the newness of intensive, in-home research had “The DVR removed the need to both the smart TV category and the purchased their new TVs with app- schedule TV around their lives,” he underlying platform p In hindsight, capability in mind. Price, picture adds. “Now on-demand access has there are a number of things we quality, screen size and technology removed the need to even record should have done differently.” all trumped apps as determining content. This flexibility is what they The lackluster performance of the factors. said they could not give up after Revue marks a setback for Google And yet, once these connected TV having it.” Inc.’s television ambitions. The com- owners started using the app, they But where does this leave the rest pany unveiled its Google TV soft- embraced the platform and within of the online video ecosystem if ware to much fanfare at its six months were not willing to give viewers aren’t using the platform to developers conference last year. The up the feature. discover new content? Nolan product was part of the company’s It turns out that this is good advises that content providers not broader push to become a force in news for familiar media brands and mistake distribution for marketing. the distribution of TV shows, movies not so much for the Web upstarts Getting onto the TV with an app is and other media content. that see connected TV as a way to not the challenge; giving people rea- However, Google faced resistance acquire new viewers. Overwhelm- sons to use it is. Nolan likens it to from major networks, which wor- ingly, this group relied on apps the early days of the Web and sug- ried their businesses would be from brands they already knew gests we not repeat the build-it-and- undermined if their programming from other platforms like the web they-will come errors of the past. was made available via Google TV. and smart-phones. The most popu- “They mistakenly thought that the The device was also dogged by lar TV apps were Pandora, Hulu website WAS the marketing. In a complaints that it was complicated Plus, Netflix, YouTube and the BBC similar manner, I think content com- to use. iPlayer. panies are mistaking apps, on A Google spokeswoman said “It’s But more than familiar, the TV mobile or on TVs, for the marketing still early days for smart TVs and apps had to be lean-back experi- tool rather than simply a new deliv- we’re investing to continue to bring ences. Highly interactive but other- ery mechanism which still needs to innovation and progress for our wise ubiquitous services like email be promoted.”

30 IEEE Consumer Electronics Society Newsletter/Fall 2011 Global Electronic Equipment Unit Shipment Forecast (Thousands of Units) over the same period—up from 1,200,000 222.3 million in 2010. 1,000,000 According to IHS, Internet- enabled consumer electronics devices 800,000 include a wide range of products— from televisions to video game con- 600,000 soles and Blu-ray players. But although game consoles were the top 400,000 selling Internet-enabled consumer 200,000 devices with shipments of 50.5 million units last year, IHS projects that 0 they will be displaced this year by tablet devices, which are projected to

2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 have shipments of 61.9 million. Smartphones Media Tablets Digital Still Cameras “From virtually nonexistent levels PMP/MP3 Players PNDs just two years ago, media tablets will Source: IHS iSuppli, July 2011 ship more than 300 million units by 2015, 15 times greater than in 2010, for a five-year compound annual Tablet Computing digital still cameras (DSCs) will growth rate of 73.3%,” wrote IHS in either decline or remain flat during an announcement of the new report Tablets, Smartphones the same period of time, according findings. IHS added that “the media Hit Sales of CE Devices to the firm’s projections. tablet appears to be the device that Posted to http://www.eetimes.com/elec- The long predicted trend of con- will pull customers into the era of tronics-news/ on 28th July by Dylan solidation of applications in smart- the digitally connected home” McGrath phones is already having major because “it allows users to enjoy Rapidly growing sales of multi- ramifications on the consumer elec- media—and not just content stored function products like media tablets tronics market. Earlier this year, locally on the device for viewing on and smartphones are coming at the when networking giant Cisco Sys- the included display.” expense of demand for single-task tems Inc. announced it would dis- The researcher firm noted that consumer electronics products, continue the popular Flip handheld “consumers can push music from an according to market research firm video recorder, many analysts and iPad to an audio system or drive IHS iSuppli, which projects sluggish observers concluded that increas- video to a large-screen display.” The sales for single-task devices like MP3 ing video capability in smart- firm also noted that it expects the players and digital still cameras phones was at least part of the media table to be “one of the first through at least 2015. reason. devices to fully integrate into the Shipments of smartphones and connected home” as a result of ven- tablets will rise at compound Tablet Computing dor support for Apple’s AirPlay annual growth rates (CAGRs) of standard. 28.5 percent and 72.1 percent, Internet Enabled While the forecast from IHS about respectively, for the years 2010 to Consumer Devices Will tablet devices may sound bullish, the 2015, according to IHS. Meanwhile, Soon Outsell PCs firm’s findings are largely in keeping shipments of portable navigation Posted to http://www.telecompetitor.com/ with other tablet developments that devices (PNDs), portable media 11th August, by Joan Engebretson. Telecompetitor has noted in recent players (PMPs)/MP3 players and Shipments of Internet-enabled con- months. Nielsen noted recently that sumer devices will exceed PC ship- one in three tablet owners see a ments in 2013 and tablet devices will decline in computer usage. And lead the way, predicts a new iSuppli cable operators certainly seem to be Consumer Platforms Report from aware of the potentially disruptive information and research firm IHS. impact that tablets could have on The entire category of Internet- their market. Further evidence of enabled consumer devices will see how ingrained tablets have become sales of 503.6 million units in 2013, in users’ lives is other Nielsen up from 161 million in 2010, IHS research which showed that 57% of says. In comparison, PC shipments tablet owners like to use them while will increase to only 253.3 million lying in bed.

IEEE Consumer Electronics Society Newsletter/Fall 2011 31 Worldwide Internet-Enabled Device Shipment Forecast (Millions of Units) 3D in CE 900 800 Fewer Consumers Intend to buy 700 a 3DTV 600 Posted to http://www.twice.com/ on 500 27th July by Greg Tarr 400 Port Washington, N.Y. – The NPD 300 Group said its recent research has 200 found that although more American consumers have been exposed to 3D 100 video at movie theaters, retail ven- 0 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 ues, and in homes of friends and family, the overall awareness and Internet-Enabled Consumer Devices PCs purchase intent for specific 3D products declined in May 2011 from last Source: IHS iSuppli August 2011 October. “With the run-up to the holiday purchase season, the intent to pur- CE at Home • AV systems from Crestron, Atlona, chase 3D televisions followed the Nuvo and others purchase intent to buy TVs in gen- New Apple-Based Home • Lighting systems from Lutron, eral,” stated Ross Rubin, NPD Automation System Taps Creston, LiteTouch and Vantage Group industry analysis executive the Cloud • Security systems from GE and ELK director. “As NPD’s sell-through Posted to http://www.cepro.com/ 1st • Water feature controls from Jandy data shows, sales of 3D TVs did August, by Julie Jacobson. and Pentair indeed rise during the holiday sea- There’s a new Mac-based home In addition, over 3,000 IR devices son, but they have since receded due automation game in town. It’s are supported, according to the com- to the seasonality of major electron- called ClareHome and it comes pany. ics purchases.” from a new company called Clare The new product is an interest- “For the majority of consumers Controls – well, not entirely new. ing blend of DIY and CE Pro. Con- who weren’t interested in purchas- Clare founder Brett Price is presi- sumer can configure scenes, email ing any 3D devices, glasses were the dent of the integration firm Tem- and SMS alerts, schedules and major barrier to purchasing, surpass- pus Electronic Lifestyles based in other events via an intuitive inter- ing price as the most frequently Sarasota, Fla. face – not unlike that of iControl, cited objection,” NPD said. But the ClareHome is billed as “the first Motorola 4Home and other mass- study found that consumers are home automation system managed market, cloud-based (SaaS) solu- starting to warm up to portable 3D from the cloud and run on a Mac.” tions. But the system is sold only experiences, most of which do not The original manufacturer of through professional installers and require special glasses. Portable Mac-based home automation for integrates with professional-grade handheld 3D video-game consoles the channel, Savant Systems, might subsystems. experienced the biggest increase in beg to differ. But it seems there is a consumer awareness of any 3D cate- slightly more substantial “cloud- gory NPD tracks. The research firm based” component with Clare. The attributed much of this to the launch system runs on a Mac Mini, but all of the Nintendo 3DS in February. of the apps for the system (ini- Awareness of this 3D category tially) reside in the cloud. Some of rose from 5 percent last October to 13 them can be downloaded (pur- percent in May, the study showed. chased, presumably) by consumers The Nintendo 3DS has a low price themselves; others, like drivers for compared to a 3D television and certain subsystems, are available doesn’t require glasses to view the only through dealers – kind of like effect. These advantages will also Control4’s 4Store app store, but hold true for 3D smartphones enter- more of it. ing the market this year.” Clare calls its drivers AppMod- With lighter and less-expensive ules, and they are written for most of active-shutter glasses, a mix of the popular subsystems: smaller displays, and the entry of

32 IEEE Consumer Electronics Society Newsletter/Fall 2011 ity that we will not see many of our customers enjoying a Nintendo 3DS.”

CE Foundation Technologies

Car Braking System Taps Directly into the Brain Talk about cutting out the middle- man. A mind-reading device that taps into a driver’s brain can recognize and act on the brain signals to stop the car precious milliseconds before the signals become leg movements. Some cars carry systems to detect traffic danger, and will then stop the vehicle the moment the driver touches the passive 3D technologies into the handheld Vita system could brake. Stefan Haufe from the Berlin market, the industry is offering more threaten that. “They seem to be Institute of Technology in Ger- 3D options to consumers. A greater willing to take a loss to maintain many says plugging into the driv- array of Blu-ray titles, along with that market position,” Cole says. “It er’s thoughts could make response new digital delivery alternatives, is really says they were looking at the times even faster. also helping to ease the path to 3D competition and wanted to respond With colleagues, he wired 18 vol- entertainment. aggressively.” unteers to an EEG headset, a non- Regardless, sales of the much- invasive way to measure brain Gaming Platforms & Technologies hyped glasses-free 3D gaming sys- activity, and asked them to drive at tem have been disappointing. In the 100 kilometers per hour in a car sim- Nintendo Price Cut U.S., only 830,000 units have been ulator, closely following the car in Acknowledges Competition sold since the device’s release in late front. The EEG measured patterns of Posted to http://www.mediapost.com/ on March. By reducing the price by brain activity as drivers were forced July 28, 2011 by Aaron Baar $80, from $249.99 to $169.99 (effec- to brake suddenly. It recorded three Nintendo’s surprise announce- tive Aug. 12), the company is hop- distinct patterns, which the team ment that it would cut the price of ing to goose sales going into the were able to use to detect the inten- its recently launched 3DS handheld holiday season. Sony’s Vita, which tion to brake before the driver gaming system by a third is as will include WiFi and 3G wireless moved, says Benjamin Blankertz, much about trying to maintain lead- capabilities, has been initially priced also at TU Berlin, who co-led the ership in an increasingly competi- at $249, and is expected by the holi- study. Sensors on the drivers’ legs to tive environment as it is about day season. monitor muscle tension provided trying to goose the lagging system’s “Never in Nintendo’s history another way to confirm the intention sales. “Clearly [sales are] part of it,” have we lowered prices to such an to brake. David Cole, president of gaming extent, less than half a year since the The system reliably triggered the market analysis company DFC product launch,” wrote Nintendo braking system 130 milliseconds Intelligence, tells Marketing Daily. “I president and CEO Satoru Iwata, in sooner than waiting for the driver to think the other side of it is Sony a letter posted online (according to touch the pedal. At 100 km/h that launching a new system at a com- the New York Times). “But we have reduces the stopping distance by the pelling price point means that the judged that unless we move deci- length of a small car – potentially competition is going to be rough sively now, there is a high possibil- enough to prevent an accident. going forward.” The maker of the Gameboy, DS and DSi has long held the market leadership position of handheld games, Cole notes. But increasing adoption of tablets and smartphones as a gaming platform and the scheduled launch of Sony’s

IEEE Consumer Electronics Society Newsletter/Fall 2011 33 Microsoft said in January it had sold like the Midwest, where coal-pow- 2 million Windows Phone devices ered electricity is cheap and plenti- following their October 2010 ful, the group said. launch, but has provided little sales The report also cites Jevons Para- information since. dox that argues that reducing the cost BlackBerry maker Research in of computation through data centers Motion also continues to struggle. It may actually lead to increased saw an especially steep slide during demand and thus higher electricity the second quarter in North Amer- usage. For this reason it is doubly ica, where its share has fallen to 12% important that data centers are sited from 33% a year ago. Canalys, how- in locations where “greener” sources ever, noted that RIM’s global ship- of energy are available so that any ments grew 11% last year and that increased electricity usage is environ- Journal reference: Journal of Neu- BlackBerry still has strength in mentally sustainable. Unfortunately ral Engineering, DOI: 10.1088/1741- emerging markets, such as Latin this is often not the case. 2560/8/5/056001 America, Indonesia and South In its report, entitled “How dirty With 20.3 million iPhones shipped Africa, where it’s still the top smart- is your data?”, the organization in the quarter, Apple was a distant phone vendor. zeroed in on 10 major tech compa- second with 19% share. Still, Apple’s “Nonetheless, it must continue to nies, including Apple, Twitter and iOS platform for the first time over- innovate and recapture lost momen- Amazon. Recently, the group has took Nokia’s Symbian operating sys- tum,” the firm stated. “It’s critical waged a feisty fight against Face- tem. A separate report from Strategy that the next-generation BlackBerry book, which relies on coal for 53.2% Analytics last week found Apple had OS 7-based products launch ahead of its electricity, according to Green- dethroned Nokia as the No. 1 smart- of the upcoming holiday season to peace. Many companies, the organi- phone seller by volume, with an compete in the market.” zation said, tightly guard data about 18.5% share. Nokia fell to third with the environmental impact and a 15.2% share, behind Samsung at Cloud Computing energy consumption of their IT oper- 17.5%. ations. They also focus more on ‘It’s an impressive success story, Cloud Computing and Internet using energy efficiently than on given that Apple has only been in Use Suck Energy, Emit CO2, sourcing it cleanly, Greenpeace said. the smartphone market for four Says Greenpeace Yahoo landed bonus points for locat- years,” said Chris Jones, principal Posted to http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/ ing facilities near clean energy hot analyst at Canalys. “With the next- technology/ on April 22, 2011 by Tif- spots and using coal-based power for generation iPhone anticipated in fany Hsu just 18.3% of its portfolio. Google got Q3, it’s likely that Apple’s position Clicking on all those viral videos, love for its extensive support of wind will grow even stronger in the sec- chain emails, celebrity tweets and and solar projects and for creating a ond half of the year.” paparazzi photos online sucks up subsidiary, Google Energy that can While Android and iOS gobble enough energy to rank the Inter- buy electricity directly from indepen- up share, Microsoft’s newer Win- net—if it were a country—fifth in the dent renewable power producers. dows Phone platform is barely a world for electricity use. That’s more The full report is available at: blip on the radar. Windows Phone, power than Russia uses, according http://www.greenpeace.org/international/ which will not roll out widely on to a new report about cloud-comput- Global/international/publications/ Nokia phones until next year, has ing from Greenpeace. climate/2011/Cool%20IT/dirty-data-report- captured just 1% share – down 52% Computer servers in data centers greenpeace.pdf from a year ago (including Win- account for about 2% of global dows Mobile sales). Through the energy demand, growing about 12% Consumer Imaging Microsoft-Nokia alliance, the next a year, according to the group. The version of Windows Phone, called servers, Greenpeace said, can suck Kodak to Sell its Mango, will power Nokia smart- up as much power as 50,000 average Crown Jewels? phones. U.S. homes. Posted to http://online.wsj.com/ on 2nd Microsoft reportedly only took in But most of what powers the August, by Dana Mattioli only $613 million from sales of Win- cloud comes from coal and nuclear Eastman Kodak Co. is exploring a dows Phone 7 handsets and other energy rather than renewable sale of one the company’s crown devices including the Zune. By sources such as wind and solar, jewels: the patent for previewing comparison, revenue from the Xbox according to Greenpeace. Clusters of photographs currently being liti- 360 platform was $8.1 billion. data centers are emerging in places gated against Apple Inc. and

34 IEEE Consumer Electronics Society Newsletter/Fall 2011 So that’s why they call it “Cloud Computing” …

Research In Motion Ltd. The imag- Samsung Electronics Co. in 2010 ing company recently said it is con- and $400 million with LG Electron- sidering the sale of 1,100 patents, or ics Inc. in 2009. 10% of the company’s portfolio. Chief Executive Antonio Perez has Kodak said the patents at stake cov- been using Kodak’s intellectual prop- ered capturing, storing, organizing erty as a means of funding the com- and sharing digital images, but pany’s long and expensive didn’t specify whether the sale transformation. In 2008, Mr. Perez would include the one at issue in the put forth a goal to generate between Apple and RIM lawsuits. $250 million and $350 million a year Kodak now acknowledges the from Kodak’s patent portfolio. The image-previewing patent is up for strategy hit a snag this year as U.S. sale, as well as patents that Kodak is iar with the matter said. The image- International Trade Commission litigating against Shutterfly Inc. The preview patent has been crucial to extended its investigation into move makes clear Kodak’s eagerness Kodak’s strategy of using intellectual whether Apple and RIM violated to raise cash after two straight quarters property suits to fund its develop- Kodak’s patents. The lengthy investi- in which patent litigation income ment of consumer and commercial gation has prevented Kodak from dried up, contributing to losses. printers, the businesses it hopes will collecting intellectual property Kodak is concerned an investor offset its declining film sales. related funds for the first half of this might try to gain control of the pat- To date Kodak settled image- year. ents—which could be worth more preview suits and signed licenses Read more: than the company’s market value of with 32 companies. The company http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 $650 million—by buying up a big raised $550 million settling law- 4053111903520204576481873564181778. stake in Kodak itself, a person famil- suits over image previewing with html#ixzz1TxdWbN6x

IEEE Consumer Electronics Society Newsletter/Fall 2011 35 FOCUS ON IPAD2

Editor’s Note: You’ll see a lot in this Hardware molded plastic support frame to be months news bytes about tablet The iPad 2 includes a new A5 pro- omitted. The 10W USB power devices. You may also have read my cessor, front and rear cameras plus a adapter provides 4x the power of a article a couple of issues ago about 3 axis gyroscope. Several compo- conventional USB port. the history of tablet computing. There nents were made smaller to fit the is no doubt that Apple has succeeded new iPad. Apple claims this doubles Cameras in re-inventing tablets for the con- processing speed and has graphics The revised tablet adds front- and sumer electronics market and this processing that is up to nine times rear-facing cameras, which allow issue we feature a focus on their next- faster than the previous iPad. FaceTime video calls with the generation tablet device – the iPad2 – iPhone 4, fourth-generation iPod which was released earlier this year Screen and input Touch and Macintosh computers and has sold in unprecedented num- Both original iPad and iPad 2 have (running Mac OS X 10.6.6 or later bers. A device overview is followed four physical switches, including a with a webcam). by a device teardown – thanks to home button near the display that The 0.3MP front camera shoots http://www.ifixit.com/ and Kyle Wiens returns the user to the main menu, VGA-quality 30 frame/s video and for the teardown content and you can and three plastic physical switches VGA-quality still photos. The 0.7MP find a full, step-by-step teardown on the sides: wake/sleep, volume back camera can shoot 720p HD guide on the iFixit website. up/down, and a third switch for video at 30 frame/s and has a 5x either screen rotation lock or mute. digital zoom. Both shoot photo in a IPad2 – Device Overview The home button on the iPad 2 is 4:3 fullscreen aspect ratio. The rear Apple unveiled the device on March “easier to double tap” than the previ- camera shoots video in 16:9 wide- 2, 2011, began selling it by website ous generation of the iPad. screen to match the 720p standard, and retail stores on March 11, and Apple reduced the size of the iPad although only the central 4:3 part of released it in 25 other countries on by eliminating the stamped sheet the recording is shown on the screen March 25, including Australia, Brit- metal frame from the display, inte- during recording. The forward fac- ain and Canada. Many stores in grating new thinner glass technology ing camera shoots in 4:3. major cities, such as New York, sold for the touch screen overlay, and out within hours. Online shipping slightly reducing the space between Size and weight delays had increased to three to four the display and battery. The iPad 2’s The device is 15% lighter and 33% weeks on Sunday and four to five screen is thinner, lighter, and yet thinner than the original iPad, it is weeks by Tuesday. stronger than the original iPad’s. The thinner than the iPhone 4 by 0.5 mm. One analyst predicted that Apple iPad 2 also supports screen mirror- The Wi-Fi version is 1.33 lb (600 would sell 35 million iPad 2s in 2011, ing via the digital AV adapter. g). Both the GSM and CDMA ver- noting that the iPad is more sions differ in weight slightly due to advanced yet cheaper than most Power the mass difference between the other tablets.1 The iPad has a 25 watt-hour GSM and CDMA cellular radios, rechargeable lithium-ion polymer with the GSM model at 1.35 lb (612 1Adam Satariano (March 11, 2011). “Apple battery that lasts 10 hours, like the g) and the CDMA model at 1.34 lb Poised to Sell 600,000 IPad 2s in Its Debut, original iPad. It is charged via USB (608 g). The size of the iPad 2 is also Outpacing First Model”. BLOOMBERG L.P. or included 10-watt, 2-amp power less than the original iPad at only 9.5 Retrieved March 14, 2011. [http://www. adapter. The battery is 2.5 mm thick, 3 7.31 3 .346 in (240 3 186 3 8.8 bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-11/apple- 59% smaller than the original and mm), compared to the original poised-to-sell-600-000-ipad-2s-in-its-debut- has three cells instead of two. The iPad’s size at 9.56 3 7.47 3 .528 in outpacing-first-model.html] improvements allowed the injection- (243 3 190 3 13.4 mm).

36 IEEE Consumer Electronics Society Newsletter/Fall 2011 IPAD 2 (WI-FI) – DEVICE TEARDOWN

Please note that if you are going to The iPad 2 is an extremely difficult • Remove the four 2.0 mm Phillips attempt this on a real-world iPad device to open. Before attempting screws securing the LCD to the you should definitely refer to the this guide, be aware that you may rear case. full teardown article at: http://www.ifixit. break your front panel and/or com/Guide/Repair/Installing-iPad-2-GSM-Wi-Fi- deform the plastic bezel around it Antenna/6166/1 during the opening sequence. [NB: Any tear-down you attempt is In the following steps you will your own responsibility and neither the use a heat gun to soften the adhesive CE Soc Newsletter nor Ifixit.com shall securing the front panel to the rear be in any way liable in any way for the panel. Try not to allow the stream of consequences of a failed disassembly of hot air to contact the thin plastic any iPad2 or its component hardware. strip around the outer perimeter of This article is for informational the front panel as it may melt, per- purposes only.] manently deform, and lose texture. When heating up the front panel, the goal is to loosen the adhesive located in the areas highlighted in • Lift the LCD from its long edge red in the second picture. When pry- closest to the volume buttons and ing up the front panel, be especially rotate it out of the rear case. careful not to damage the Wi-Fi • Detailed step-by-step instructions antenna in the area boxed in blue, to continue with disassembly of the top antennas in the area boxed in the iPad can be found at: h t t p :// yellow, or the digitizer cable in the www.ifixit.com/Guide/Repair/Installing- area boxed in black in the second iPad-2-GSM-Wi-Fi-Antenna/6166/1 picture. Detailed step-by-step instructions Finally!!! The iPad has come back to remove the front panel can be to iFixit! And this time, it has a 2 found at: http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/ at the end of its name, hence the Repair/Installing-iPad-2-GSM-Wi-Fi- iPad 2! Antenna/6166/1 After a much awaited debut, the iPad 2 is expected to fill in the gaps Notable chips found on the main left by the first generation iPad. CPU logic board: • Apple 1GHz A5 dual-core Processor Tech Specs: with a 200MHz bus and 512 MB of 1 GHz Apple A5 dual-core processor Samsung manufactured RAM. 512 MB of LPDDR2 RAM • Toshiba TH58NVG7D2FLA89 16GB 16/32/64 GB internal storage NAND Flash capacity • Apple 343S0542 – this looks like 9.7” LED-backlit glossy Multi-Touch the Dialog Semi power manage- display with IPS technology(1024 3 ment chip found in last year’s iPad 768) – all of those inductors and capaci- HD (720p) Rear-facing camera 1 • Carefully rotate the front panel tors surrounding it are a clue. VGA Front-facing camera away from the iPad, being sure that • Texas Instruments CD3240B0 no adhesive is still attaching the 11AZ4JT G1 touchscreen line driver, two components. working with the Broadcom • Do not put excessive strain on the BCM5973 and BCM5974 chips shown digitizer cable. above. • Lay the front panel next to the rest • S6T2MLC N33C50V Power of the iPad 2. Management IC • Do not attempt to completely remove • The A5 processor has manufacture the front panel assembly just yet, as dates of late January and mid-Feb- it is still attached to the logic board ruary 2011. Production was clearly via the display ribbon cable. ramping up through the last

IEEE Consumer Electronics Society Newsletter/Fall 2011 37 minute. It looks like the A5 proces- BCM43291HKUBC. Broadcom has The front-facing camera assembly sor is the APL0498, replacing the made this Wi-Fi/Bluetooth/FM includes the camera, headphone A4/APL0398 seen in the iPad 1 tuner combo chip a ubiquitous part jack, and microphone. The 0.3MP and iPhones. for smartphones – lots of design front camera shoots VGA-quality 30 • Apple-branded 338S0940 wins. frame/s video and VGA-quality still A0BZ1101 SGP. This looks like the • This is the same part Apple used in photos. Cirrus audio codec Chipworks both the first iPad and the iPhone 4. found in the Verizon iPhone, but you’ll have to get it off the board to make sure.

The 0.7MP rear-facing camera can shoot 720p HD video at 30 frame/s After popping off a few EMI shields, and has a 5x digital zoom. It shoots iPad 2 Repairability Score: 4 out of we get a good look at the ICs on the digital stills in a 4:3 full-screen 10 (10 is easiest to repair): touchscreen logic board. They aspect ratio. Video is captured in • The LCD is really easy to remove include: 16:9 widescreen to match the 720p once the front panel is gone. • Broadcom BCM5973KFBGH standard, although only the central • Only standard Phillips screws were Microcontroller used for touchscreen 4:3 part of the recording is shown on used – no Pentalobular or Tri-Wing • Broadcom BCM5974 CKFBGH the screen during recording. funny-business. capacitative touchscreen controller • The front panel is now glued to the • This is the same combination as the rest of the device, greatly increas- original iPad – nothing new here! ing the chances of cracking the • Interestingly, the Wi-Fi board is glass when trying to remove it. attached to the logic board under • The LCD has foam sticky tape one of the EMI shields. It can be adhering it to the front panel, easily pried off its socket. increasing chances of it being shat- tered during disassembly. • The battery is very securely stuck down to rear case, and you have to remove the logic board to remove it. You can’t access the front panel’s • The Wi-Fi board; powered by connector until you remove the another Broadcom chip, a LCD.

SMART GRID ROUND-UP

months. I’ve also formed and con- This issue I am featuring members Introduction vened a working group within CE of our smart-grid committee, their Smart grid is another strategic topic Society to develop a strategy for research and professional back- with IEEE. Our president has asked working with IEEE Smart Grid and grounds and their interests in smart- me to take over the role of CE Society trying to understand where our Soci- grid. If you wish to bring matters liaison with IEEE Smart-Grid and ety can fit into and contribute to the relating to smart-grid to this work- I’ve been following various IEEE larger IEEE initiatives and activities ing-groups attention please contact activities over the past couple of on Smart-Grid. myself in the first instance.

38 IEEE Consumer Electronics Society Newsletter/Fall 2011 A reprint of a short article, repro- role, he helped develop and launch the Dr. Yu Yuan has published extensively duced from the IEEE Smart Grid technology adopted by the HomePlug in referred conferences and journals, and Newsletter, follows this. It is entitled Powerline Alliance for data networking has served on program/organizing com- over residential power lines and holds mittees of many major conferences includ- What the Internet of Things Will Mean several patents in this area. Mr. Markwal- ing the 1st IEEE International Electric for the Smart Grid and should be of ter holds BS and MS EE degrees from the Vehicle Conference (IEVC 2012: http:// direct interest to CE Society readers. Georgia Institute of Technology and is a electricvehicle.ieee.org). Dr. Yu Yuan is cur- In future issues I will continue to licensed professional engineer. rently serving as the chair of IEEE Techni- select and republish a number of cal Committee on Software Infrastructure in IEEE ITS Society, the publicity chair of Farzin Aghdasi received older articles from IEEE Smart Grid Land Transportation Division of IEEE a BSc in Electrical Engi- Newsletter to give our members and Vehicular Technology Society, the vice chair neering from Imperial of IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Bei- readers further insights into CE College, London, an jing chapter, and the vice chair of IEEE related aspects of the Smart Grid. If MBA from the University Consumer Electronics Society Beijing chap- you want to subscribe directly you of Portland, Oregon, and ter. Dr. Yu Yuan is a senior member of IEEE a PhD in Electrical Engi- can do so at http://smartgrid.ieee.org and a senior member of ACM. and you’ll receive an e-mail version neering from the Univer- sity of British Columbia, of the Smart-Grid newsletter every Vancouver, BC, Canada. He has published Taikyeong Ted. Jeong month in your inbox. over 50 papers in refereed journals and received the M.S. and Note that I am looking for a vol- conference proceedings in areas related to Ph.D. degree from the unteer to run our Smart Grid Round- image processing and multimedia commu- Department of Electrical Up for the new CE Magazine. nication. After more than. 17 years in aca- and Computer Engineer- Establishing yourself as a regular fea- demia he moved to industry and has ing, the University of designed and shipped appliances for video Texas at Austin in 2000 ture editor on the IEEE Consumer capture, streaming, storage and display and 2004, respectively. He Electronics Magazine can’t be bad for systems that are commercially successful. performed research in the your resume either. Contact me at ces- He is now with Schneider Electric where area of analog circuits and power efficient [email protected] if you are interested. he leads a team for developing systems system design techniques. Prof. Jeong is cur- intelligence for automated buildings man- rently an Associate Professor at Myongji agement systems. In addition to security University; working on power management CE Society Smart applications there are operational and circuits for SmartGrid-related devices and Grid Committee energy management applications for these ASIC design. His research interests include systems. These integrate with smart grid power management IC design, low-power Brian Markwalter is and energy management offerings across design and SmartGrid application, for Senior Vice President of the breadth of Schneider Electric products example, EV battery and charging system. Research and Standards and services from Square D and APC He is a member of IEEE SSCS, CAS and CE. for the Consumer Elec- brands and for use in both homes and com- For more information Visit URL: http:// tronics Association mercial buildings. Dr. Aghdasi holds a asic.mju.ac.kr/ (CEA), a trade associa- number of patents related to smart systems. As a member of SmartGrid committee, I tion with approximately He is also the project lead for IEC global am currently involved in energy saving 2000 members represent- standardization efforts for IP Video trans- consumer electronics design with an ing the $180 billion U.S. mission protocols related to alarm systems. approach of low-power circuit design tech- consumer technology industry. Mr. Mark- nique. For example, some analog circuits walter is responsible for overseeing CEA’s are required to design/implement for a ANSI-accredited standards development Dr. Yu Yuan is a Re search Smart Meter or AMI, and also in volved operation and extensive market research Staff Member at IBM with power-aware devices – DMB, DAB, capability. Mr. Markwalter represents Research – China, and is IPTV, etc. While CE products are connected CEA’s technical interests in industry and a veteran researcher in with power source, a large number of CE international venues related to digital tele- areas of Vehicular Tech- products should save power consumption. vision, broadband access, spectrum man- nology, Intelligent Trans- An additional research topic for SmartGrid agement, standards and intellectual portation Systems, CE, such as a wired/wireless charging for property, smart grid and energy efficiency. Consumer Electronics, Smart Meter and an energy-efficient His leadership in the industry is reflected and IOT (Internet of SmartTV are also available. through positions on the ATSC Board of Things). Currently he is leading the Directors, IEEE Consumer Electronics Soci- research on Connected Vehicles and Mobil- ety Administrative Committee, NTIA’s ity Internet in IBM China. Meanwhile, he is Dr. Thanh Tran has over Online Safety and Technology Working advocating IBM IOT Technology Center, 25 years of experience in Group, FCC’s Technological Advisory which is a collaborative innovation plat- audio, video, computer, Council, FCC’s Video Programming Acces- form for IOT research and development and communication sys- sibility Advisory Committee and NIST’s with industry and academia partners. An tems design and is the Smart Grid Interoperability Panel Govern- aspect of his work is to promote the com- CTO of DSP Systems ing Board. mercialization of cutting-edge technologies New End Equipments at Prior to joining CEA, Mr. Markwalter in Electric Vehicle and Smart Grid. He has Texas Instruments (TI) worked as Director at Intellon Corpora- filed numerous patents and received many Inc. At TI, he is leading a tion, a semiconductor company specializ- IBM Invention Achievement awards and team to develop reference designs, frame- ing in power line communications. In this IBM High Value Patent awards. works, and collaterals for the smart grid

IEEE Consumer Electronics Society Newsletter/Fall 2011 39 and energy end equipment. He has held Science at the University of Oxford in 2001 T. M. Coughlin, the other senior design positions at Compaq and his PhD research in the modeling of founder of Coughlin Computer, Bose Corporation, and Zenith induction machines at the University of Associates has over 30 Electronics Corporation. Reading in 2005. He has six years academic years of magnetic record- Tran holds 22 issued patents and has and industrial experience in power elec- ing engineering and published one book, High Speed DSP and tronics, electric machines and wireless engineering management Analog System Design, and over 20 contrib- power transfer, and worked as the Research experience at companies uted articles. He is a Senior IEEE member & Development Manager at Moog Compo- developing flexible tapes and currently serves on the IEEE Interna- nents Group Ltd. before joining the Univer- and floppy disc storage tional Conference on Consumer Electronics sity of Reading as a Lecturer in 2009. Ben is as well as rigid disks at such companies as Technical Program Committee and the Uni- a member of the IEEE and CE Society. Polaroid, Seagate Technology, Maxtor, versity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ECE Dr Potter is currently supervising five Micropolis, Nashua Computer Products, Alumni Board of Directors. He is also an PhD students working on smart energy Ampex and SyQuest. He has an extensive adjunct faculty member at Rice University management, with two working directly on engineering background in magnetic heads where he is teaching digital/analog audio, smart-grid applications. Ben’s research is and media as well as integration of these video and embedded systems design. part funded and supported through a part- and other technologies into hard disk Tran received a BSEE degree from the nership with Scottish and Southern Energy, drives. He was responsible as an individual University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, one of the UK’s largest energy companies, contributor as well as a high level engineer- Illinois in 1984, and Master of Science and and joint work is underway on smart-grid ing and corporate manager for design of Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering degrees trials. The University of Reading brings magnetic storage systems for many genera- from the University of Houston, Houston, together energy-focused researchers from tions of hard disk drives at Ampex, Syquest, Texas in 1995 and 2001 respectively. Systems Engineering, Mathematics, Meteo- Seagate, Maxtor and Micropolis. rology and Construction Management, More recently Tom has become an Dr. Peter Corcoran, IEEE resulting in a somewhat unique and benefi- evangelist for digital storage in consumer Fellow; more than 150 cial mix of technical and socio-economic systems and applications. He is the technical publications, perspectives on smart-grid research. author of Digital Storage in Consumer 40+ peer reviewed jour- Electronics, published in 2008 by a divi- nal papers, 70+ Interna- Mr. Dukes is President & sion of Elsevier. He is the chairman and tional peer reviewed CEO of IU, LLC., a strate- organizer of the annual Storage Visions conference papers; co- gic management group and Creative Storage Conferences, well inventor on 80+ granted that advises companies known in the data storage and storage US patents, 20+ granted in development and applications industries. He has authored European, with another 80+ patents cur- investment of existing several key white papers and published rently pending. University Professor for 24 and new technologies, in over 70 articles, reports, technical papers years; member IEEE Consumer Electronics particular high speed and presentations. He is a senior member Society 15 years. Completed 20+ funded data systems, integrated of the IEEE, a member of the Administra- research projects and been directly voice, data and video systems, interactive tive Committee for the IEEE Consumer involved in managing 2M in research fund- television and video on demand systems. Electronics Society, and is currently chair- ing over the last 5 years. Mr. Dukes serves or has served on sev- man of the 2011 IEEE Sections Congress in Currently Vice-Dean of Research & Grad- eral public and private corporate boards San Francisco. uate Studies in the College of Engineering & and a number of technical advisory boards. Informatics at National University of Ireland He was Vice President, Digital Broadband William Lumpkins, Galway. Current research interests include Technology at MediaOne responsible for Senior Member of IEEE, (i) repeatable biometric encryption keys; (ii) broadband development and member of is VP of Engineering at 2D affine face models for determining CableLabs’ DOCSIS Certification Board. He O&S Services where he expression and emotion; (iii) smart grid & was Vice President, Technology with TCI, manages a cross-func- associated networking issues; (iv) digital including network architecture, digital set- tional team developing imaging, including stereo imaging; Co- top and conditional access system require- state-of-art Consumer Founder of several start-up companies ments and developments. He was CEO of Electronic products. His including FotoNation which is now are the MCNS Holdings, responsible for manage- is also the Director of core of the smart-imaging division of Tessera ment of the DOCSIS specifications for data Engineering at Pragmatics Technology Inc., Inc – www.tessera.com. Industry consultant over cable networks and cable modem a Semiconductor Test Engineering & Inte- & expert witness. Peter’s research interest in development with over 130M cable gration company. He was a senior staff smart-grid goes back to the mid-1990’s when modems deployed to the standard. He was member in the hardware division of Texas he executed and published research based Vice President, Advanced Network Devel- Instruments and served also as Director of on powerline networking using the CEBus opment at CableLabs responsible for net- Engineering with responsibility to expand standard and in collaboration with US and work architecture with $85B in cable their IP portfolio. He has a classical electri- Norwegian partners. infrastructure deployed, multimedia, wired cal engineering and computer science back- telephony and wireless PCS. ground from New York University & Dr. Ben Potter is a IEEE Fellow (2002); IEEE member since Maryland University College Park. researcher in smart 1976; 2007–08 Chair of IEEE Masaru Ibuka William founded the IEEE Dallas Sec- energy management with Award Committee, 2010–12 President of tion’s Consumer Electronics Chapter in a current focus on agent- IEEE Consumer Electronics Society. He is 2004 (www.dallasces.org) and serves on based control of energy also co-author of “Breaking the Access Bar- the Consumer Electronics Societies flow in the smart grid. rier: Delivering Internet Connections over Administrative Committee and is also a Ben completed his MEng Cable,” John Wiley & Son, along with 19 past-president of the society. He currently degree in Engineering other publications. continued on page 42

40 IEEE Consumer Electronics Society Newsletter/Fall 2011 WHAT THE INTERNET OF THINGS WILL MEAN FOR THE SMART GRID

Editor’s Note: This article was origi- will reside in different layers of an cations to take advantage of them nally published in the June edition enterprise; for example, in different remains a very challenging task that of IEEE smartgrid newsletter – h t t p :// operational units, IT networks or requires expert knowledge of each smartgrid.ieee.org/101-Smart-Grid- even run directly on devices and platform. To ease the task, recent Newsletter/121-June-2011 machines within a company. research initiatives have tried to pro- As both of these trends are not vide uniform interfaces that create a Dominique Guinard is a domain-specific but common to mul- loosely coupled ecosystem of ser- researcher at the Institute tiple industries, we are facing a trend vices for smart things. The goal is to for Pervasive Computing where the service-based information create a real-world grid in which of ETH Zurich. Previ- systems blur the border between the smart things provide services that ously, he was research physical and virtual worlds, provid- can be easily combined to create associate for SAP ing a fertile ground for a new breed new applications, an eco-system Research Zurich, working of real-world aware applications. increasingly more ready to imple- on using SOAs to connect smart things with What does this have to do with ment some of the big visions of business applications, and a visiting the smart grid? Thanks to real-world smart grids. researcher at the MIT Auto-ID Labs. In services, home appliances increas- Two types of service-oriented 2007, he co-founded the WebofThings.com ingly have ways to make their architectures stand out as potential initiative with the aim of reflecting on how to energy consumption known to their candidates to enable uniform inter- use the Web to create a global grid of inter- users1, raising consumers’ energy faces to smart objects: the Represen- connected, everyday objects and machines. awareness. Furthermore, appliances tational State Transfer (REST) and can increasingly communicate with WS-* Web services. Inter-communicating devices and each other to make whole buildings WS-* services declare their func- integrated Web-based services will smarter by optimizing heating, ven- tionality and interfaces in a Web Ser- open exciting opportunities. Smart tilating and air conditioning systems vices Description Language (WSDL) appliances in smarter buildings will (HVAC), among other things. file. Client request and service be linked in grids that can be more Even more importantly, through response objects are encapsulated tightly monitored and regulated in composite applications using real- using the Simple Object Access Pro- real time. New communications pro- world services, industrial machinery tocol (SOAP) and transmitted over tocols and software applications of and city-wide infrastructures will be the network, usually using the fundamental importance are show- manageable remotely to negotiate HTTP protocol. Further WS-* stan- ing the way. energy consumption and shave con- dards define concepts such as Over the last several years, we sumption peaks. addressing, security and discovery. have witnessed two major trends in To facilitate these connections, Although WS-* was initially created the world of embedded devices. research and industry have come up to achieve interoperability of enter- First, hardware is becoming smaller, with a number of low-power net- prise applications, work has been cheaper and more powerful, so that work protocols such as Zigbee and done to adapt it to the needs of many devices will soon have com- Bluetooth and, more recently, IPv6, resource-constrained devices. munication and computation capa- in a version optimized for resource- Lighter forms of WS-* services, such bilities. Objects will be able to constrained devices called 6lowpan2. as the Devices Profile for Web Ser- connect, interact and cooperate with Although they are increasingly vices3 (DPWS), are targeted towards other objects in their surrounding part of our world, embedded IoT applications. environment and with control cen- devices still form multiple, small At the core of a RESTful architec- ters—a vision generally dubbed the and incompatible islands at the ture lie resources that are uniquely Internet of Things (IoT). application layer; developing appli- identified through Uniform Resource Second, the software industry is Identifiers (URIs). The Web is an moving towards service-oriented 1Weiss, M., Guinard, D.; Increasing energy implementation of RESTful princi- integration technologies; especially awareness through web-enabled power out- ples; it uses URLs to identify in the business software domain, lets. In Proceedings of the 9th International resources and HTTP as their service complex applications based on com- Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multi- interface. Resources can have several bined and collaborative services media (MUM ‘10). ACM, New York, 2010. representation formats (HTML, JSON, have been appearing. The Internet of http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1899475.1899495 and so on) negotiated at run-time Services (IoS) vision projects such 2http://ipso-alliance.org/wp-content/ integration on a large scale: services uploads/6lowpan.pdf 3http://www.ws4d.org/

IEEE Consumer Electronics Society Newsletter/Fall 2011 41 using HTTP content negotiation. In a Both approaches have advantages of resource-constrained devices? typical REST request, the client dis- and disadvantages. Generally, WS-* When considering billions of things covers the URL of a service it wants services are preferred when connected to the Web or the Internet, to call by browsing or parsing and advanced security features are desir- how do you identify the services that following links in its HTML repre- able, whereas RESTful services— let you, for instance, negotiate the sentation. The client then sends an thanks to their ease of use and light energy consumption of a smart thing? HTTP call to this URL with a given weight – studied in the IoT context Furthermore, if billions of smart things command (such as GET, POST or by Yazar and Dunkels6—better fit are on the Web, how do you manage PUT), a number of options (i.e. resource-constrained devices and and control access to their services? “accepted format”) and a payload foster public innovation. These are but a few of the ques- in the negotiated format (such as As the vision of an IoT is slowly tions on which researchers will have XML or JSON). Several recent materializing thanks to SOAs, to focus to implement a global and research projects implement REST- researchers are busy solving some of interoperable network of everyday ful Web services for smart things4, the challenges that have been surfac- devices that will support some of the also known as “Web of Things” ing: How can the Internet and Web most challenging use-cases of smart projects5. protocols be optimized to fit the needs grids.

4Drytkiewicz, W.; Radusch, I.; Arbanowski, S.; net of Things (IOT), 2010, vol., no., pp. 1–8, Dec. ‘09). ACM, New York 2009. http://doi.acm. Popescu-Zeletin, R.; “pREST: a REST-based pro- 1 2010 URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/ org/10.1145/1810279.1810289 tocol for pervasive systems,” Mobile Ad-hoc and stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5678452&isnumb Sensor Systems, 2004 IEEE International Confer- er=5677827 ence on , vol., no., pp. 340–348, 25–27 Oct. 2004 6Yazar D., Dunkels, A. Efficient application http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp integration in IP-based sensor networks. =&arnumber=1392173&isnumber=30305 In Proceedings of the First ACM Work- 5Guinard, D.; Trifa, V.; Wilde, E.;, “A resource ori- shop on Embedded Sensing Systems for ented architecture for the Web of Things,” Inter- Energy-Efficiency in Buildings (BuildSys

Smart Grid Round-Up continued from page 40 is chair of CE Society’s standards activities shi Electric Corporation, and engaged in has 15 Japan patents of Consumer and society liaison with IEEE Standards. research into signal processing for audio Electronics use. visual equipment and microprocessor His contribution for Consumer Electronics Professor Tomohiro applications. He has been a professor of Society. He founded the CE Kansai Chapter Hase was born in 1953 in the Faculty of Science and Technology of on January 2009 and was first Chapter Chair. Gifu, Japan. He received Ryukoku University, Japan since 2002. He He was a General Chair of the ISCE2009 on a B.S. degree from the is teaching and researching into informa- May 2009 at Kyoto, Japan. He is a Vice Presi- Fukui University, and tion and communication technology for dent, International Strategy, on 2011. He will M.S. and Ph.D. degrees audio visual appliances, and human be a General Chair of the GCCE2012, new from the Shizuoka Uni- interaction technology for mobile devices. International Conference sponsored by CE versity, Japan. All de - He has published more than 100 papers society, on October 2012 at Tokyo, Japan. grees were in Electronic include 19 papers for IEEE Transactions He’d like to contribute to the IEEE Con- Engineering, and were received in 1977, on Consumer Electronics, and more than sumer Electronics Society continuously as 1979 and 1995. In 1979, he joined Mitsubi- 40 papers for ICCE, ISCE and GIC. He one of the administrative committee.

42 IEEE Consumer Electronics Society Newsletter/Fall 2011 IEEE CE SOCIETY STANDARDS UPDATE

William Lumpkins, Sr. Member IEEE, IEEE CE Society Standards Committee Chair, Wi2Wi Inc.

The fall season is upon us, the Smart Radio Frequency strength that is cism that you can send our way on Grid power system in the United allowed by the FCC or European this column. [email protected] (Will States is being taxed by the swelter- Union or (pick your country’s Lumpkins) ing heat wave here in Texas and the EMC/EMI compliance body) to rest of the southern part of the enter your head (or brain). It is a IEEE New Projects United States. My friends in Asia, topic most folks do not like to talk tell me to stop whining as they are about. As I tell students during my IEEE 802.22™-2011 Standard used to weekly brown-outs. I sup- frequent lecturers to Universities for Wireless Regional Area pose I am a wimpy American. But I that I visit, I ask the students “What Networks in TV Whitespaces like complaining, I can’t wait for frequency is the best to heat water Completed Smart Grid technology and solar molecules?” There would be blank IEEE announced that it has pub- technology to take the next step of stares, I would reply, “Well, it is a lished the IEEE 802.22™ standard. implementation so I can run my air microwave frequency with a wave- IEEE 802.22 systems will provide conditioner at full blast and pretend length of 12.2 cm which oscillates at broadband access to wide regional that I live in Alaska during our sum- 2.45 GHz”. I would then ask, “What areas around the world and bring mer months. is your brain mostly filled with?” A reliable and secure high-speed com- As you can see below some of the few less blank stares, a few snide munications to under-served and new standards out this month are comments, someone would say, un-served communities. taking advantage of the opening of “Water”. I would then ask, “What IEEE 802.22 incorporates the “White Space”1 frequency frequency does your Wi-Fi, Blue advanced cognitive radio capabilities regions that are be left vacant due to Tooth Head, or Cell Phone operate including dynamic spectrum access, analog/analogue television moving at?” There is always a long pause. incumbent database access, accurate into the Digital frequency space (54 Then Students state quietly with a geo-location techniques, spectrum MHz and 806 MHz (54–72, 76–88, sense of dread “2.4 GHz”. Everyone sensing, regulatory domain depen- 174–216, 470–608, and 614–806)[2] that deals with SAR knows that it is dent policies, spectrum etiquette, television frequencies (Channels bad to have too much energy that and coexistence for optimal use of 2-69), ceased operating on June 12, can heat the water molecules in our the available spectrum. 2009 per a United States digital swi- brain and other parts of the body The IEEE 802.22 Working Group tchover mandate). Economic/poli- (Sorry, guys, maybe you shouldn’t started its work following the Notice tics aside this should be a operate that Wi-Fi device in your of Inquiry issued by the United burgeoning new space that will lap, unless you already have a gag- States Federal Communications allow a lot of new consumer based gle of kids.) Hopefully, these new Commission on unlicensed opera- applications to open up. Already I SAR standards can help us with the tion in the TV broadcast bands see Texas Instruments, Broadcom, safely implementation of this fre- To view the complete article, please Marvel, Intel and others investing quency that won’t be going away visit: http://ieeestandards.org/ct.html?rtr=on heavily in the White Space field by any time soon. &s=8nv,1jw8t,340i,jy2u,73kc,8017,fo6j rolling out ASIC’s and mainstream Lastly, the IEEE Standards Asso- processors with Digital FM and ciation is trying a new approach to IEEE Approves Projects to White Space radios. As always these reach out to audiences that it nor- Create Standards for Methods technologies take a while before they mally does not reach, to this end it of Determining Specific show up in consumer products (five has created some nifty videos on Absorption Rate (Sar) in to ten years) but expect to see them the Smart Grid Initiative for Chi- Users of Wireless soon at CEA’s CES show in the next nese speakers with some new vid- Communications Devices. year or two. eos. If you speak Chinese or are Three new IEEE standard projects Another burgeoning standard for hoping to learn, take a look at the will address making spatial-peak determining SAR (Specific Absorp- videos below. We at the IEEE CE SAR calculations for humans tion Rate), SAR is well known by Society hope this is helpful and exposed to vehicle-mounted anten- Cell Phone manufacturers as the appreciate any comments/or criti- nas and mobile phones.

IEEE Consumer Electronics Society Newsletter/Fall 2011 43 The IEEE Standards Association for using the Finite Difference Time New Smart Grid (IEEE-SA) Standards Board has Domain (FDTD) Method for SAR Videos Available approved projects for the creation of Calculations. (In Chinese) three standards for using the Finite IEEE P62704-2™ – Standard for The IEEE and the IEEE Standards Difference Time Domain (FDTD) Determining the Peak Spatial Association (IEEE-SA) continue to technique in determining the peak Average Specific Absorption Rate develop their activities in the Smart spatial average Specific Absorption (SAR) in the Human Body from Grid area in China. Three new vid- Rate (SAR) in people from wireless Wireless Communications Devices, eos (below) provide an update on communications devices. The bene- 30 MHz–6 GHz. Part 2: Specific IEEE and IEEE-SA latest initiatives. fits include standardized and Requirements for Finite Difference http://ieeestandards.org/ct.html?rtr=on& accepted protocols and standardized Time Domain (FDTD) Modeling of s=8nv,1jw8t,340i,ehvu,hzuf,8017,fo6j anatomical models, validation tech- Vehicle Mounted Antenna Config- http://ieeestandards.org/ct.html?rtr=on& niques, benchmark data, reporting urations. s=8nv,1jw8t,340i,c92z,6m82,8017,fo6j format and means for estimating the IEEE P62704-3™ – Standard for http://ieeestandards.org/ct.html?rtr=on&s= overall uncertainty in order to pro- Determining the Peak Spatial- 8nv,1jw8t,340i,5qo2,j3yk,8017,fo6j duce valid and repeatable and repro- Average Specific Absorption Rate For Questions about joining any ducible data. The projects are: (SAR) in the Human Body from of the above standards, please con- IEEE P62704-1™ – Standard for Wireless Communications Devices, tact Will Lumpkins at [email protected] Determining the Peak Spatial Aver- 30 MHz–6 GHz. Part 3: Specific CE Society Standards Chair age Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) Requirements for Finite Difference in the Human Body from Wireless Time Domain (FDTD) Modeling of Citations Communications Devices, 30 MHz–6 Mobile Phones/Personal Wireless http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_ GHz. Part 1: General Requirements Devices spaces_(radio)

CONFERENCE REPORT – ISCE 2011

Nicholas Vun ISCE2011 General Chair Stefan Mozar IEEE CE Soc VP Conferences

The IEEE Symposium on Consumer The ISCE has grown to be a global Technologies, completed with a very Electronics (ISCE2011) was a very conference, which alternates between imaginative and futuristic video on successful event. This year it was Asia and the rest of the world. It is a how glass technology could be used held in Singapore from 14–17 June major annual event in the consumer in our daily life in the near future. 2011. It was a special event as it electronics calendar. The interna- On the third day, Elya Joffe, Presi- marked a major milestone in the his- tional make up of the attendees dent Elect of IEEE Product Safety tory of the symposium. It was the reflects the global acceptance of this Engineering Society, presented a 15th anniversary of the ISCE. It has symposium. keynote topic on the potential con- been held annually since 1997. The ISCE 2011 scheduled 24 sessions flicting requirements between EMC “home” of the ISCE is Singapore. It of presentations by delegates from and Safety in CE product design. was the then newly formed Singa- the industry, academia as well as This was then followed up in greater pore Chapter that initiated this Sym- research communities from over 20 detail in his tutorial on the topic of posium. That is why Singapore was countries. It featured three very Grounding for EMC design on the voted to host the symposium during interesting keynote presentations forth day morning. This tutorial had its 15th anniversary. This year’s Gen- and a tutorial over the 4 days. All of many participants form local con- eral Chair, Nicholas Vun, was also these were very well received and sumer electronic design centers. the very first ISCE chair! Nicholas had a great turnout. Tom Coughlin The Singapore Organizing Com- brought together an outstanding started off with his keynote presen- mittee and the CE Society were proud team that very efficiently managed tation on Digital Storage for con- to have Mr Henn Tan accept the Engi- the symposium. The conference was sumer applications on the first day. neering Leadership Award. This centrally located and close to Singa- On the second day, Izhak Baharav of award was presented during the con- pore’s famous Orchid Road, which is Corning West Technology Center ference opening ceremony. Mr Henn best known for its shopping. delivered a keynote on Touch Screen Tan is the CEO and Chairman of Trek

44 IEEE Consumer Electronics Society Newsletter/Fall 2011 Best Paper Award Recipient Prof Wen-Chung Kao (center) to his left is CE Soc President Steve Dukes and to his right VP Engineering Leadership Award Recipient Mr. Tan, Henn. Conferences, Stefan Mozar; next to the right is Nicholas Vun.

most of the paper presenters turned up demonstrates the quality of the technical sessions. The number of no-shows was very low. One of the highlights of the conference was undoubtedly the conference dinner. Apart from the amazing multi course Chinese dinner, the organizing committee arranged for an interesting program. During the dinner Aldo Morales the ISCE2012 chair invited all attendees to participate in the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Symposium. The team that will host the ISCE2013 in Taiwan also invited delegates to participate in Taiwan. The ISCE is now an established meeting place for consumer electronic professionals to get together Conference Dinner and share ideas and catch up with friends. Next year the ISCE2012 will 2000 International Ltd, a Singapore the tea break. This presentation was be held in the United States. The based company that was a pioneer in extremely well received by the dele- hosts are the Susquehana Section the development of the USB memory gates. and it is cosponsored by the CE Soci- stick, and holds the worldwide trade- ISCE2011 also arranged two ses- ety. The General Chairs are Aldo mark: ThumbDrive. His contributions sions for judges to select the best Morales and Sedlig Agil, who invite toward the memory stick make him is paper awards. Our IEEE CE Society you to plan ahead and make sure a very worthy recipient of this presti- President, Steve Dukes, took time off that you don’t miss out on the gious award. During the ceremony from his busy schedule and arrived opportunity to participate in this his company, Trek 2000, gave a tech- in time to present the awards to the great conference. Aldo mentioned nical presentation on their latest inno- winner. that in Harrisburg there is a choco- vation, the FluCard technology. This The overall turn out for ISCE2011 late ending! A visit to the Hershey was followed by a live demo during was very good, and the fact that factory is on the agenda.

IEEE Consumer Electronics Society Newsletter/Fall 2011 45 IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine Call for Articles – Spring Issue 2012 Next Generation Television (NGTV) Associate Editor: TBD (Peter Corcoran, for now) Television of one form or another has been at the core of Consumer Electronics since its widespread adoption for home entertainment in the 1950s. The original evolution of Television was a slow one taking many decades for color TV to become affordable and gradually replace monochrome TV during the 1970s & 1980s. Analog broadcast and cable networks converted to digital technology and adopted HDTV standards during the early 2000s.

In recent years we have seen the re-invention of TV with higher definition images – HDTV – and improved cin- ema-like sound quality. Analog broadcasting is a thing of the past and today the underlying technology is entirely digital ensuring high picture quality. Connectivity has also been greatly improved with the adoption of HDMI standards for A/V interfaces.

Now Television stands at a new cross-roads. What strategic direction will it take? Higher definition or 3D images? More audience interactivity? Merge with or fight the Internet? Only you know the answer – please share with our readers!

Articles should be broadly scoped – typically review and tutorial articles are particularly suited to the CE Mag- azine. Technical articles may be suitable but these should be of general interest to an engineering audience and of a broader scope than regular technical papers for archival journals.

Suitable topics include:

Ultra-HD Television – Broadcast 3D Television Technology – Codecs 3D TV Technology – Standards & Broadcast Standards Displays & Projection Systems

Ultra-HD Television – Display Interactive Television – Television & the Internet – Technologies Technologies & Case Studies Managing & Securing Content

IPTV – Current Status and Future Cable Networks & TV – Television & the Internet – Trends New Directions & Technologies Leveraging the Long-Tail

HDTV in Japan – History and Digital Broadcasting – Today’s Tech. Connectivity Challenges for Current Trends & Tomorrow’s Challenges NGTV

Articles related to practical testing and evaluations of state-of-art next-generation technology systems are particularly welcome. While some emphasis on the CE related aspects of these systems is required, articles deal- ing with interdisciplinary aspects of NGTV are welcome. Tutorials on CE related technologies or techniques related to HCWM are also encouraged.

Interested in contributing? Please contact the editor at [email protected] for feedback and to discuss the suitability of your ideas for an article.

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