Ask the Experts is a forum to discuss Home Networking technologies. This is a vehicle for designers to pose questions or voice opinions on technologies and products related to broadband access, residential gateways, home networking technologies and information appliances. Xilinx has identified the following experts to provide answers to questions and initiate discussions on home networking. Gerard O'Driscoll Gerard is the head of New Interactive Services at Chorus, a leading provider of digital TV, Internet and telephony services. He is responsible for developing and delivering a wide range of interactive TV and Internet-based services. In addition to authoring The Essential Guide to Home Networking Technologies, O'Driscoll also authored The Essential Guide to Digital Set-Top Boxes and Interactive TV, both published by Prentice Hall. Xilinx XPERTS Partners Alpha Data Parallel Systems Ltd - Keith Baker Alpha Data Parallel Systems, Ltd., based in Edinburgh, UK, offers a range of PCI boards based on Xilinx Virtex™ and Virtex™-E devices. The FPGA design group at Alpha Data has more than 40 years of experience in design and simulation using Xilinx devices, and can provide an FPGA design service and turn-key solutions for a range of reconfigurable products. Areas of Expertise: Xilinx reconfigurable computing PMC cards High-performance Virtex /-E /-EM based PCI and PCM input/output coprocessors Computing applications in defense, industry, and leading-edge research Telecommunications, image processing, DSP, simulation, and realime applications Conversion of existing systems to remove obsolescence   Bottom Line Technologies, Inc. - Dave Savory Bottom Line Technologies, Inc. offers a high degree of specialization, purely on the tools and technology of Xilinx. Our focus purely on the tools and devices of Xilinx afford our clients dramatically reduced schedules, high performance, high density and low cost designs. Areas of Expertise: Synthesis and complex floorplanning Core development and integration HardWire designs and obsolete ASIC to FPGA migration Data Communications, applications include TI, T3, ATM, IMUX, test equipment and high speed modem Video, Audio, Data Acquisition and General Signal Processing Bus Designs Military Xilinx training, both Xilinx tools and VHDL   Enea Epact AB - Lars Asplund   Nallatech Ltd. - Derek Stark Nallatech are experts in complete electronics based systems design. This includes the skills required for software/hardware partitioning and the development of Distributed Parallel Processing Systems. Areas of Expertise: Real time image processing systems DSP DSP algorithm development targeting FPGA's Military designs, specifically obsolescence upgrades High speed data throughput Complex PCI Logicore designs   Plextek Ltd. - Dr Steve Methley Plextek provides the customer with expert skills within the area of digital, analogs, RF, software, DSP system, mechanical, manufacturing, and provides solutions at board and system/product level, as well. Plextek is involved in many stages of project development, from discussion of initial concepts, through to introduction, and on into manufacture. Areas of Expertise: Communications (standards and non-standards based) Defense Consumer Desktop Automotive Medical   S3 Group - Louis Kinsella Founded in 1986, S3 works with the world's leading electronics multinationals, designing state-of-the-art Integrated Circuits, Embedded Software and Hardware Systems for the merging Communications, and Consumer Electronics markets. They are experts in designing solutions, which combine the speed of silicon with the flexibility of software. Areas of Expertise: Wireless Communications Standards DECT Bluetooth Cellular 2, 2.5 and 3G DSP   Sapphire Computers, Inc. - Dan Rudolf Sapphire Computers Inc. are specialists in high-speed and high-utilization FPGA designs, combining expertise in the latest microprocessor and digital systems with experience in using Xilinx FPGAs in designs since 1987. Areas of Expertise: DSP Reconfigurable Computing Graphics Acceleration Telecom Processor board design Test equipment Signal Processing   Xilinx eSP Team The Xilinx eSP team has varied backgrounds ranging from embedded computing, wireless, consumer, data communications, telecom and FPGA design to consumer electronics. The eSP team has put together the collateral for the Home Networking and Bluetooth segments and will be rolling out additional segments in the future.