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IBM Haifa Research Lab

February 2006

IBM Haifa Research Labs Project Highlights

Complete On-Chip Interconnect Solution, System Performance Optimization, Voice and Multimedia Technologies, Collaboration Technologies

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Microstrip T-lines: Up to 200 GHz, mostly for SiGe RF & mm wave customers

Coplanar T-lines: Up to 100 GHz, mostly for Digital CMOS, includes silicon effects

IBM Haifa Complete On-Chip Interconnect SolutionDesigning on-chip high-speed wiring is a difficult challenge. Our solution uses T-line devices as design components for critical on-chip wiring.

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Silicon substrate

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RC Lines: Digital CMOS: short wires / lower frequencies

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IBM Haifa System Performance Optimization

System level optimizations enable better computer architecture utilization

IBM Haifa optimization tools include compilers, post-link optimizers and adaptive optimizations

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Package

I/O

InterconnectCacheMicroprocessor

Core

Compilers/Optimizers

SMP System Structure

HypervisorOperating Systems

MiddlewareSoftware

Development Tools

Application System performance is increasing due to better virtualization and clustering technology

System level optimizations examine the interdependence and merging of a system's components

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IBM Haifa Voice and Multimedia Technologies

Mobile Media Framework

J2ME multimedia middleware enables development of advanced multimedia applications and services for a wide variety of mobile devices

Highly extendible and flexible Java framework

Enables playback and capture of various audio and video formats

Embedded Concatenate Text-to-Speech

High quality speech synthesis combines small speech segments together to form synthesized sentences

An essential part of speech-enabled car navigation and control systems for Honda, Pioneer, and Alpine

Native OS

MobileMedia Framework

Application (MIDlet)

J9 MIDP

Decoders

JSR-135

Renderers

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Pesto - an advanced Java collaboration middleware for processing real-time collaboration streams

Key features: - Persistence- Lifecycle- Security- Rich presence - Awareness

IBM Haifa collaboration tools build new presence information coming frommultiple presence sources, and can be combined with location and contextualinformation for a new generation of applications

IBM Haifa Collaboration Technologies