Featured Speaker: Rob Aitken
Rob Aitken is a distinguished architect for the Synopsys EDA Group and an experienced technologist with broad-based expertise and connections across the semiconductor industry and academic ecosystem. An IEEE Fellow and associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, Rob has 50 patents and has published about 100 technical papers. He has a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from McGill University.
Abstract:
The CHIPS Act and other announced government spending are designed to rebuild advanced semiconductor manufacturing capability in the US for national security and other purposes. This is an ambitious and laudable goal, with a huge number of interacting and interconnected technologies needed to bring it to fruition. This talk focuses on three of those: 3D integration of heterogeneous multi-die systems, advanced design technology, and novel computing system architectures. Each of these enables advances in performance and energy efficiency but even higher gains are attainable by co-developing all three together. These examples are not unique – the chips of the future will need a workforce with a broad range of skills and expertise to extract benefits from silicon that is increasingly challenged to provide them.