Speakers

2010 Speakers

The Validation Attitude - pdf

Silicon Valley - Q2 2010
Bob Colwell was Intel's chief IA32 (Pentium) microprocessor architect from 1992-2000, and managed the IA32 Architecture group at Intel's Hillsboro, Oregon facility through the P6 and Pentium 4 projects.
He was named the Eckert-Mauchly award winner for 2005, the highest honor in the field of computer architecture, for "outstanding achievements in the design and implementation of industry-changing microarchitectures, and for significant contributions to the RISC/CISC architecture debate."
He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2006 "for contributions to turning novel computer architecture concepts into viable, cutting-edge commercial processors".
He was named an Intel Fellow in 1996, and an IEEE Fellow in 2006. Previously, Colwell was a CPU architect at VLIW minisupercomputer pioneer Multiflow Computer, a hardware design engineer at workstation vendor Perq Systems, and a member of technical staff at Bell Labs.
He has published many technical papers and journal articles, is inventor or co-inventor on 40 patents, and has participated in numerous panel sessions and invited talks.
He is the Perspectives editor for IEEE Computer Magazine, wrote the At Random column 2002-2005, and is author of The Pentium Chronicles, a behind-the-scenes look at modern microprocessor design.
He is currently an independent consultant.
Colwell holds the BSEE degree from the University of Pittsburgh, and the MSEE and PhD from Carnegie Mellon University.

Tales from the Trenches: Validation Missteps Making Us Full-Time Firefighters- pdf

Silicon Valley - Q1 2010
Allison Goodman is a validation program manager at Intel for their new client and enterprise solid state hard drives.
Prior to her current position, she has been a validation engineer working on several of Intel’s products and also a technical project manager in the laptop product group.
Allison earned her B.S. in computer and electrical engineering from Cornell University and is PMP certified.
She is a Lt. Governor for the Society of Women Engineers and also a master instructor at Intel for Project and Product Risk Management.

Mainline Functional Verification of IBM's POWER7 Processor Core- pdf

Austin - Q2 2010
John Ludden is a senior technical staff member at IBM where he has over 18 years of experience in design verification spanning mainframes, x86 and PowerPC processor based systems.
He has been the architecture verification lead engineer for IBM's POWER3/4/5/6 processors and is a member of IBM's Verification Advisory Team. For the past 14 years,
John has worked with IBM's test generation research team in Haifa, Israel to improve instruction-level test generation capabilities in order to address out-of-order execution, symmetric multi-processing and simultaneous multi-threading (SMT) processor verification requirements.
John received a Corporate Award from IBM for his leadership in defining and executing the POWER5 SMT verification plan. He has co-authored three papers and currently holds two patents in microprocessor verification.
John received his BSEE from the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York in 1990.

An Introduction to GPU: 3D Games to HPC - pdf

Bangalore - Q1 2010
Krishnaraj Rao is currently working as a Sr. Engineering Manager at Nvidia, responsible for design & development of IPs that go into Nvidia products.
He has been at Nvidia for the past 12 years, and has worked on GPUs as well as managed Chipset products and IP Groups.
Prior to Nvidia, he worked for 4 years at Weitek and Rockwell Semiconductors in areas of 2D Graphics, Video & Displays.
He has a BSEE from Mangalore University and an MSEE from Louisiana State University.
Krishnaraj has filed for 11 patents in the field of Graphics and Display subsystems, of which 5 have been issued.

Emulation on Your Desktop - pdf

Bangalore - Q1 2010
Nirajnayan Sharma heads Bluespec's Engineering and Marketing operations in India and is based out of Bangalore. Bluespec supplies the global electronics market with tool-sets, and IP leveraging the industry's high-level synthesis solution that embraces system, control, algorithmic, and verification IP
Niraj has worked in the VLSI space for close to 10 years. Prior to Bluespec, he held positions in architecture, design, and verification at Analog Devices, Intel, and National Semiconductor. Niraj is a B.Tech. in Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering from IIT Kharagpur