1. Jump to first page Prof. Eleftherios Kayafas 1 Technology 2000+ Leading - Edge Technologies

2. Jump to first page Prof. Eleftherios Kayafas 2 Communications n Voice over IP (VoIP) n Cellular Networks n Intranet (long distance IP network of a company) n Voice Enabled Routers n Mobile Telephony B3G (Beyond 3rd generation) n Satellite communications n Wi-Fi Hotspot Networks (IEEE’s 802.11.x wileless local area networking standards) n Bluetooth

3. Jump to first page Prof. Eleftherios Kayafas 3 Internet Download Times of short video World Wide Wait MODEM TYPE Download Time in seconds for a 7.5 Mbytes Video ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- n Asynchronous Digital Subscribers Loop (ADSL): 10 seconds n www/s ADSL : 40 seconds n 1.5 Mb/s : 40 seconds n 128 kb/s Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) : 7 minutes n 56.6 kb/s : 18 minutes n 28.8 kb/s : 35 minutes

4. Jump to first page Prof. Eleftherios Kayafas 4 Web Computing n W W W n E-commerce n E-Learning n E-Banking n E-...

5. Jump to first page Prof. Eleftherios Kayafas 5 WEB Developments n Semantic WEB- Software Agents. The Semantic Web will enable software agents that understand Web forms and databases. n XML: Web pages encoded with Extensive Markup Language will ease Web navigation and data entry.

6. Jump to first page Prof. Eleftherios Kayafas 6 Computing & Internet n Internet TV (Set top box interface) n Video on demand n Internet - cellular n Internet telephony n Home banking n Network computing n Video conferencing n Smart card

7. Jump to first page Prof. Eleftherios Kayafas 7 Putting Voice Interfaces To: n PCs n PDAs n Cellphones n Cars

8. Jump to first page Prof. Eleftherios Kayafas 8 Transistors n CMOS with dimensions shrink to a few tens of nanometers n Exotic devices u nanotubes u single-electron transistors u superconducting transistors u molecular transistors

9. Jump to first page Prof. Eleftherios Kayafas 9 Organic Semiconductors n All Plastics n Self-Assembled Monolayers (SAMs) u Displays u Circuits u Sensors-semiconductors u Organic memory

10. Jump to first page Prof. Eleftherios Kayafas 10 Consumer Electronics n Entertainment: Sony Playstation II 2000 ( Sony with DVD, www, 200MH CPU), Nintendo’s Gameboy Advance SP n Smart Homes, No more boxes, No more wires n Embedded Systems design n DSC Digital Still Camera με CCD image sensor και LCD display n DTV Digital TV, Home Theater, RW- DVDs

11. Jump to first page Prof. Eleftherios Kayafas 11 Technical Software n Wizards and Visualization n Architectures n Languages n Interfaces

12. Jump to first page Prof. Eleftherios Kayafas 12 Devices and Circuits Need for: n Low Power Designs n Increased bandwidth n Large memory n Exceeding conventional Transistor design limits n Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS)

13. Jump to first page Prof. Eleftherios Kayafas 13 Electronic Design Automation n Hardware Design Language n Verilog n VHDL (Very High Description Language) n C, C++

14. Jump to first page Prof. Eleftherios Kayafas 14 Test and Measurement n Instumentation Amplifiers n A/D and D/A converters n Sensors n Monitoring Systems n Remote Sensing

15. Jump to first page Prof. Eleftherios Kayafas 15 Environment n Tin/silver alloy soldering lead free n Environmental Profile of Computer Workstation (Energy use, Material use, Water use-at production-, Waste) n CFC elimination (chlorofluorocarbons) n Energy efficiency n Cell phone concerns n Health effects of low frequency electromagnetic fields 50 or 60 Hz (EMF) n Solid State Lights

16. Jump to first page Prof. Eleftherios Kayafas 16 Energy-Power concepts n Oil and Natural Gas n Solar and Wind Power n Waves and Tidal Power n Biomass n Hydrogen-Fuel Cells n Superconductors in Energy Production n Energy, Environment and Buildings

17. Jump to first page Prof. Eleftherios Kayafas 17 Transport n Navigation Display n GPS and stored information assistance n Active Vehicle Control n Vehicle state interface n Vehicle control system n Driver vehicle interface n Collision intervention processor

18. Jump to first page Prof. Eleftherios Kayafas 18 Aerospace and Military

19. Jump to first page Prof. Eleftherios Kayafas 19 Industrial Electronics n Energy savers n Sensorless control (measuring voltage- current) n Neural ICs (Artificial Intelligence, fuzzy logic, neural networks) n Robots n Control by Emotion n Magnetic resonance n Embedded Systems Interface

20. Jump to first page Prof. Eleftherios Kayafas 20 Medical Electronics n Microarrays reveal gene activity n Decoding proteins n Computer Tomography n Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) n Painless trip within the body