PREMIER COMMUNICATION DESIGN ENGINEERING CONFERENCE FEATURES TUTORIALS AND
CLASSES ON CUTTING EDGE TECHNOLOGY

Conference Highlights Include Full Day ATM Tutorial, Special Courses On
Serial Infrared Data Link Standard, Keynote Speech Addressing Advances In
Communications Technology

San Francisco -- October 23, 1995 -- Miller Freeman Inc. today released
detailed information on the program for the Communication Design
Engineering Conference (CDEC), a comprehensive technical conference
targeted solely at engineers building communications equipment at the
chip, board and box level. The conference, December 11-13, 1995 in San
Jose, Calif., will feature a full-day tutorial on Asynchronous Transfer
Mode (ATM); five special courses including a panel discussion on IrDA
(Infrared Data Association) technology; a keynote address on "Advances in
Communications" by Mark Melliar-Smith, chief technical officer of AT&T
Microelectronics; and more than 35 technical courses on cutting edge
technology for telecommunication and data communication design engineers.


For engineers designing communication systems, the lectures and workshops
cover the dramatic changes in techniques and tools for hardware and
software design. Course topics, presented by a faculty of industry
experts, include internetworking, mobile data, digital signal processing
(DSP), video, radio frequency (RF), and both local and wide area networks.
The conference will be held at the Red Lion Hotel in San Jose. 

"This is the first time that communication systems designers will find one
conference totally devoted to their needs," said Ted Bahr, vice president
of the Electronics Division at Miller Freeman, Inc. "Our classes will be
taught by working professionals and will cover all recent developments in
the field, including wireless and wired systems, mixed signal and digital
technologies, and telecommunications and data communications
applications."

In Depth ATM Tutorial 

The conference begins on Monday, December 11 with a full-day tutorial on
implementing ATM, presented by Fred Sammartino, founder and past president
of the ATM Forum. As an internationally recognized expert in the
standardization and deployment of broadband networks, Mr. Sammartino will
provide an update on the latest ATM standards, chips and products, and
discuss ATM deployment to enhance existing data networks as well as
deployment for new applications with multimedia capabilities. He will also
emphasize the importance of standards adoption, and will discuss
work-in-progress toward complete ATM solutions. 

IrDA Series

Four special courses on infrared data communication will be offered on
Tuesday, December 12. Taught by members of the Infrared Data Association
(IrDA), the classes will explore the nuts and bolts of this technology.
Specific classes include an introduction to the basic technology,
transmission requirements, system design and interoperability, and testing
and compliance. Later in the afternoon, Mike Watson, president of IrDA,
will lead a panel discussion on IR technology and how it will enable new
applications and allow for the creation of a Personal Area Network (PAN).


Keynote, Classes

At 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 12, Mark Melliar-Smith will deliver a keynote
address discussing the new opportunities in communications design that
will evolve from recent advances in integrated circuits, software and
fiber optics, combined with deregulation of the telecom industry. As
executive director of the Integrated Circuits Division at AT&T's Bell
Laboratory, he believes that mobile multimedia, offering "anywhere,
anyhow, anytime" capabilities, is not far off in the future. 

Classes at the Communication Design Engineering Conference will focus on
practical design issues. Speakers are experienced design engineers,
offering innovative and workable solutions to communication equipment
design challenges. Larry Mittag, columnist for COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS
DESIGN magazine, and principal consultant for Mittag Enterprises, will
present a class on "Designing Multitasking Communications Systems." His
presentation will emphasize techniques to design and implement systems
that use multitasking to advance the efficiency and robustness of a
communication system while avoiding excessive overhead and complexity. 

Maher Awad is a research and development manager at Nokia Research, and
author of OBJECT-ORIENTED TECHNOLOGY FOR REAL-TIME SYSTEMS, to be
published by Prentice-Hall this year. He will teach a session on
"Object-Oriented Development of a Telecommunication System Using OCTOPUS."
This presentation will outline the OCTOPUS method, which bridges the gap
between object-oriented methods and real-time systems. 

"Set-Top Box Design," presented by Steve Pollman, senior VLSI chip designer
for General Instrument, will cover subsystems for digital TV delivery with
an emphasis on high-volume decoder design and system partitioning and
decoder architecture. Mr. Pollman will also discuss ASIC design and
simulation techniques for set-top-box systems. 

In addition to many more classes and tutorials, the conference features an
exhibition of the latest products and services available for
communications design engineers. 

The premier Communication Design Engineering Conference is presented by
Miller Freeman, Inc., one of the nation's largest trade show producers and
publisher of COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS DESIGN magazine, EMBEDDED SYSTEMS
PROGRAMMING, and LAN MAGAZINE. A wholly-owned subsidiary of United News
and Media, plc of London, England, the company produces dozens of
electronics and software development conferences and trade shows,
including: the Embedded Systems Conferences, PCB Design Conference,
Surface Mount International, Autodesk University Conference and
Exhibition, MechanCAD, and OS/2 World Conference and Exhibition. 

Registration Contact:  Julie Shaw,  415/356-3334

Exhibit Sales Contact: Meredith Hahn,  415/905-2586

Press Registration: FS Communications,  415/691-1488

Miller Freeman, Inc.
600 Harrison St
San Francisco, CA 94107
415-356-3344,  fax 415-905-2220
 
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