About the Speaker

John leads SoC Labs, a global academic community of over 140 universities utilizing the arm ecosystem to support community driven hardware design. John is active in developing re-usable SoC reference designs and fabrication flows, helping academics improve both education and research oriented hardware design outcomes. John’s broader role is to develop collaborative relationships with industry including the Arm ECS Research Centre which has developed over 18 years. John also co-leads on one of four UK semiconductor Innovation and Knowledge Centres with a focus on design of Chiplets and Heterogenous Integration and Advanced Packaging for electronic systems.

Development of chip design skill using real world SoC challenges

Overview

How community driven hardware design can help build chip design skills and reduce cost and time to market by re-using proven reference designs, design patterns, fabrication flows and project development environment. SoC Labs will share details of silicon proven designs and EDA tool flows that can be easily adopted including an example using the advanced TSMC 16nm fabrication process. The session will also highlight how Artificial Intelligence accelerators can be made using software design combined with High Level Synthesis and issues that can occur in back end Physical fabrication flows.

Key Points

• Make it easy to take SoC designs from concept through to proven silicon
• Re-use of proven reference designs, design patterns, fabrication flows and project development environment
• Benefit from shared resources especially verification efforts