CS 856 Guest Lecture

Feb 10, 2010

MC 2036, 1:00pm

Latency in Embedded Systems - More than just Meeting Deadlines

Sean Simmons, Director, Digital Signal Processing, RIM

I will use GSM and VoIP phone calls as concrete examples of digital systems with latency (end-to-end delay of speech). I will explore many of the potential contributors to the system latency one might find in a practical implementation. I hope to stimulate discussion on:

About the speaker: Sean has been working at RIM for 12 years and is responsible for the research, implementation, and productization of radio and audio signal processing algorithms for RIM's BlackBerry handsets.