The 18th International System-on-Chip (SoC)

Conference, Exhibit & Workshops

 September 1 & 2, 2020

University of California, Irvine (UCI) - Calit2

         
 
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Keynotes & Panels

17th International System-on-Chip (SoC)

Conference, Exhibit & Workshops

 

The Theme for This Year’s Conference Is “Silicon Engineering The Future."

 

 

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Schedule & Program Summary

 

 

 

SoC Conference Day 1

Wednesday, October 16, 2019

UCI - Calit2 Building

  8:00 am - 7:00 pm

 

 

SoC Conference Day 2

Thursday, October 17, 2019

UCI - Calit2 Building

  8:00 am - 6:30 pm

 

 

Tabletop Exhibition,

SoC Student Design Contest & Reception (at 6 pm) - Open to Public.

Wednesday, October 16, 2019

UCI - Calit2 Building

  2:00 pm - 7:00 pm

 
         

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Google

 

 

Keynote

 

 

 

 

Dr. Martin Maas, Research Scientist, Google Research, Brain Team.
 

 

“TBA"

 

Abstract: TBA

 

Bio: Research Scientist in the Google Brain team. Before joining Google, I completed my PhD in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences department at UC Berkeley, working with Krste Asanović and John Kubiatowicz. My primary research interests are in managed language runtime systems, operating systems and computer architecture. I am interested in the entire stack from the hardware to the programming systems layer. At Google Brain, I am working on topics related to machine learning. My PhD research focused on warehouse-scale computers. I worked and collaborated across areas and built real systems that involve large system-level codebases as well as hardware-level RTL. I have applied this approach to domains ranging from security to managed languages. During my PhD, I built a secure processor that provides memory-trace obliviousness (a new security property) and can be targeted by a custom compiler, a distributed language runtime system that coordinates JVMs on different nodes in a cluster, and worked on hardware support for garbage collection. I have also built research infrastructure, including FPGA implementations of hardware based on the RISC-V ISA.  Before coming to UC Berkeley, I completed my undergraduate degree at the University of Cambridge. In my undergraduate research, I investigated the challenges and bottlenecks of implementing a Java Virtual Machine for the Barrelfish Operating System. I was supervised by Ross McIlroy and Tim Harris from Microsoft Research, Cambridge.   During my time in high-school, I was an active participant in science and programming competitions. I was on the German team for the International Olympiad of Informatics (IOI) and represented Germany at the International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF).

 

 

 

 

 

 

Intel

 

 

Keynote

 

 

 

 

Sailesh Kottapalli, Intel Senior Fellow, Intel Architecture, Graphics and Software Chief Architect, Datacenter Processor Architecture.
 

 

“Computing Infrastructure in Data-centric era"

 

 

Abstract: Computing infrastructure is increasingly influenced by the need to manage the exponential growth in data. The computing infrastructure needs to move this massive amounts of data, store it and harvest it by processing for value added insights that drive business value by delivering to customer’s needs. This is driving changes across the entire spectrum of Computing, interconnects, memory and storage as well as security requirements. In addition, how we deliver that value across architecture, SW, design, process and packaging is also changing. This talk will outline a number of trends as a result and the specific solutions and SoC architecture to address these trends.
 

Bio: Sailesh Kottapalli, Intel Fellow, Platform Engineering Group Director, Data Center Processor Architecture, joined Intel in 1996 as a design engineer working on the first Intel® Itanium® processor, then code-named "Merced." Subsequently, he served as lead engineer for several Intel Itanium and Intel Xeon processor evaluations, and more recently, as lead architect for a series of Intel Xeon server processors. His work in this area earned Kottapalli an Intel Achievement Award for delivering record generational performance improvements in a high-end server product. An active participant in industry and internal conferences, Kottapalli has authored or co-authored several published technical papers, delivered talks and taken part in roundtables and panel discussions. He has also been granted approximately three dozen patents in processor architecture, with additional patents pending. Kottapalli holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from Andhra University in India and a master's degree in computer engineering from Virginia Tech.
 

 

 

 

 

 

University of Texas at Austin

 

 

Keynote

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. Lizy Kurian John, P.E., The Cullen Trust for Higher Education Endowed Professor in Engineering No.3, IEEE Fellow., University of Texas at Austin.
 

"Machine Learning for Performance and Power Modeling / Prediction."

 

Abstract:  Estimating the power and thermal characteristics of SoCs is essential for designing its power delivery system, packaging, cooling, and power/thermal management schemes. Power models that estimate the power consumption of each functional unit/hardware component from first principles are slow and tedious to build. Machine learning can be used to create power models that are fast and reasonably accurate. Machine learning can also be used to calibrate analytical models that estimate power. In this talk, I’ll present some examples of performance and power modeling using machine learning. Another application for machine learning has been to create max power stressmarks. Manually developing and tuning so called stressmarks is extremely tedious and time-consuming while requiring an intimate understanding of the processor. In our past research, we created a framework that uses machine learning for the automated generation of stressmarks. In this talk, the methodology of the creation of automatic stressmarks will be explained. Experiments on multiple platforms validating the proposed approach will be described. Yet another application for machine learning is in cross-platform performance and power prediction. If one model is slow to run real-world benchmarks/workloads, is it possible to predict/estimate the performance/power by using runs on another platform? Are there correlations that can be exploited using machine learning to make cross-platform performance and power predictions? A methodology to perform cross-platform performance/power predictions will be presented in this talk.

 

Bio: Dr. Lizy Kurian John holds the Cullen Trust for Higher Education Endowed Professorship in Electrical Engineering in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. She received her Ph.D. in computer engineering from The Pennsylvania State University. She joined The University of Texas Austin faculty in 1996. Her research is in the areas of computer architecture, multicore processors, memory systems, performance evaluation and benchmarking, workload characterization, and reconfigurable computing. Professor John's research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, Semiconductor Research Consortium (SRC), DARPA, Lockheed Martin, AMD, Oracle, Huawei, IBM, Intel, Motorola, Freescale, Dell, Samsung, Texas Instruments, etc.. She is recipient of NSF CAREER award (1996), UT Austin Engineering Foundation Faculty Award (2001), Halliburton, Brown and Root Engineering Foundation Young Faculty Award (1999), University of Texas Alumni Association Teaching Award (2004), The Pennsylvania State University Outstanding Engineering Alumnus (2011) etc. Professor John holds 10 U. S. patents and has published 16 book chapters, 200 refereed journal and conference publications, and approximately 50 workshop papers. She has coauthored books on Digital Systems Design using VHDL (Cengage Publishers), Digital Systems Design using Verilog (Cengage Publishers) and has edited a book on Computer Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking (CRC Press). She has also edited three books on workload characterization. Professor John is the Editor-in-Chief (EIC) Elect of IEEE MICRO (term begins January 2019) and she is in the editorial boards of ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimizations (TACO), IEEE Computer Architecture Letters, IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing, and has served in the past as an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Computers and IEEE Transactions on VLSI. She is a member of IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, ACM, and ACM SIGARCH. She is an IEEE Fellow (Class of 2009).

 

 

 

 

 

IBM

 

 

Keynote

 

 

 

 

 

Jason S. Miller, Director, IBM Z Processor and Systems Chips Development.
 

 

"The Technology Behind the Latest IBM Z Mainframe"

 

Abstract: Mainframes are the IT foundation of the global economy. Every day, over $25B of credit card and ATM transactions flow through the platform, as well as millions of airline reservations, hotel bookings, car rentals, etc. In this talk, we will look at the custom silicon technology that powers this essential platform, including the ultra high-frequency central processor, the custom I/O data routers, and the industry-leading hardware encryption engines. Included in this talk will be a discussion of the pre-silicon verification methodologies that enable us to bring highly complex processors and SOCs to market in record time.


Bio: Jason Miller is the Director of IBM Z Processor and Systems Chips Design at IBM. He leads a global team responsible for designing and bringing to market the industry-leading high performance processors and SOCs that power IBM Mainframes. Prior to this role, Jason led Procurement Engineering for IBM, supporting all procured hardware components and technologies for IBM Systems. Over his career, Jason has held numerous roles in Systems Hardware Development, ASIC Design, Semiconductor Manufacturing, and Microelectronic Packaging. Jason joined IBM in 2000. He holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Penn State University.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Xilinx

 

 

Keynote

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jennifer Wong, Vice President of FPGA Product Development. Xilinx Inc.
 

 

"A Holistic Approach for System Integration and Performance Optimization."

 

Abstract: Rapid scaling with Moore’s Law and the more recent 3DIC development have led to the shrinking of electronic systems over the last several decades. As scaling continues beyond single CMOS device to include heterogeneous devices in 2.5D and 3D stacking, design methodologies need to keep pace to enable complex integration to achieve optimal system performance. This requires a new holistic approach for design optimization of the integrated silicon, package and PCB leading to miniaturized solutions that have superior performance.


Bio: Jennifer Wong is Corporate Vice President of Silicon Integration at Xilinx, where she is responsible for design methodology and chip-level integration, as well as system signal/power integrity, package and printed-circuit board development. She has contributed to over 8 generations of FPGAs and SoCs at Xilinx. Before joining Xilinx, Jennifer was with Advanced Micro Devices developing CPLDs. She received her Master of Science and Bachelor of Science degrees, both in electrical engineering, from the University of California, Berkeley. In addition, Jennifer has published multiple papers and has earned 45 patents.

 

 

 

 

Panel #1

 

 Wednesday, October 16, at 1:00 PM

Panel #1

 

 

Panel

 

Panel:  “RISC-V Realities, Opportunities and Challenges in the Complex and Crowded CPU Market."

Moderator: Farhad Mafie, SoC Conference Chairman.

Panelists:
1. Dr. Rob Aitken, R&D Fellow and technology lead for Arm Research, ARM.
2. Nader Bagherzadeh, Professor (Joint Appointment), Electrical Engineering and Computer Science & Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Science. University of California, Irvine.
3. Grant Martin, Distinguished Engineer, Tensilica R&D - Cadence Design Systems.
4. Dr. Emerson Hsiao, Senior VP, Andes Technology USA Corp.
5. Wayne Radochonski, CTO, Pixilica.
6. Gerald D. Zuraski Jr., Senior Principal Engineer, Austin R&D Center, Samsung.

 

 

 

 

 

Panel #2

 

 

Wednesday, October 16, at 5:00 PM

Panel #2

 

 

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Panel:  “How AI and Machine Learning will Drive the Semiconductors Market to the Next Level."
 
Moderator: Farhad Mafie, SoC Conference Chairman.

Panelists:

1. Dr. Jun Miyazaki, CEO and Founder OrangeTechLab Inc.
2. Dr. Tirthajyoti Sarkar, Sr. Principal Engineer, AI/Machine Learning, ON Semiconductor.
3. Iman Khabazian, CTO, Vairtis Corporation.
4. Anil Mankar, COO & SVP Engineering, BrainChip Inc.
5. Alvin Joseph, CIO, VP Information Technology, Orora.
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Dr. David Garrett, VP Hardware, Syntiant.
 
 

 

 

 

Panel #3

 

 

Thursday, October 17, at 5:00 PM

Panel #3

 

 

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Panel:  

“Is Blockchain of Things IoT 2.0? Could Blockchain of Things be the Security solution that the industry has been looking for?"
 
Moderator: Farhad Mafie, SoC Conference Chairman.

Panelists:
1. Dr. Pim Tuyls, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Intrinsic ID.
2. Marc Canel, Vice President of Strategy – Security at Imagination Technologies.
3. Jauher Zaidi, Chairman & Chief Innovation Officer, Palmchip Corporation.
4. Chad Blickenstaff, Enterprise Resource Manager, Oracle.
5. Pamela Norton, CEO and Founder, Borsetta.
6. TBA.



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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