Description

HDMI is widely viewed as the ultimate answer to delivering simple high
quality audio and video in consumer and "prosumer" electronics and its
flexibility is drawing increasing interest from professional audio product
developers. Its unique nature however, presents a number of challenges in
designing products that take advantage of the medium's potential. Tom Kite
of Audio Precision will discuss the unique nature of audio transmission in
the HDMI signal stream including its strengths and the problems it presents.
He will also touch on how engineers designing HDMI products can use test
instruments to test HDMI audio quality.

About the Speaker

Thomas Kite is Director of Software Development at Audio Precision, Inc., in
Beaverton, Oregon. Before joining AP in 1999, he worked at HP Labs in Palo
Alto, California, and Xerox Labs in Webster, New York. He received his
Bachelor's degree in physics from Oxford University, England, in 1991, and
his master's and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University
of Texas at Austin in 1993 and 1998, respectively. At Audio Precision, he
has written much of the signal processing code for the System Two
Cascade/2700 and APx500 line of products. He also regularly gives technical
seminars and presentations. He is a member of the Audio Engineering Society
(AES), and sits on the AES digital audio measurement standards committee.

Address

Cogswell Polytechnical College
1175 Bordeaux Drive
Sunnyvale, CA 94089