Tuesday Plenary Keynote

Shankar Krishnamoorthy

General Manager, EDA Group & Corporate Staff at Synopsys Inc

Biography:  Shankar Krishnamoorthy is the General Manager (GM) of the Electronic Design Automation (EDA) Group. He is responsible for the EDA software line of business across design, verification, signoff, test, silicon lifecycle management (SLM), TCAD, and manufacturing domains for digital, analog, and mixed-signal designs.

Prior to becoming the GM of the EDA Group, Shankar held other executive positions at Synopsys, including GM of the Silicon Realization Group and Digital Design Group and Senior Vice President of the Digital Implementation Group. Under his leadership, Synopsys has delivered several ground-breaking technologies enabling semiconductor designers to achieve the most optimum power, performance, area, cost, and time to market on their most advanced products. Before rejoining Synopsys in 2017, Shankar served as GM of the IC Design Solutions Division at Mentor Graphics. He joined Mentor in 2007 with the acquisition of Sierra Design Automation, where he was founder and CTO. Prior to Sierra Design, Shankar led Synopsys’ physical synthesis and logic synthesis R&D organizations.

Shankar received his M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Texas, Austin, and his bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.

Abstract:  TBD

Tuesday Visionary Talk

Sriram Sankar

Director, Infrastructure at Meta

Title:  Herding Llamas:  Testing for AI at Hyperscale

Biography:  Sriram Sankar is a Director of Engineering at Meta, where he leads teams that are responsible for the entire lifecycle of Meta’s AI Silicon at Scale. Previously, Sriram led teams that are responsible for the Hardware Health and Availability of the Global Compute/Storage/AI server fleet at Meta.

Prior to Meta, Sriram led the engineering organization responsible for server and data center infrastructure at GoDaddy. In his previous role at Microsoft, Sriram was responsible for the technical strategy and architecture of Microsoft’s global data center footprint. Sriram was also a primary member of the Cloud Server Infrastructure team, developing the next-gen server and datacenter hardware for Microsoft’s cloud services infrastructure. Sriram has a Masters and PhD degree in Computer Science from the University of Virginia. He also has 10+ granted patents, 50+ publications, and is a keynote speaker at top conferences. In recent years, his team’s work on Silent Data Corruptions has been featured in several media articles, including the NY Times, HPC Wire, Register, Forbes, SemiEngineering, and other prominent technical blogs.

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Wednesday Keynote

Steve Hesley

Corporate Vice President at AMD

Title:  The Future of Computing Depends on You

Biography:  Steve is a Corporate Vice President at AMD whose focus is on scalable, quality systems. Steve has 30+ years of experience in design and product engineering.

Steve has been responsible in the last several years for a cross functional team that addresses key quality concerns across AMD server products from development to validation and manufacturing ramp to customer enablement and sustaining support and drives corrective action into AMD processes as well as industry standards, research, and vendor collaborations. His additional responsibilities include RAS architecture, Design for Test and Debug IP and CAD, and the on-chip control and data planes of the Infinity Fabric.

Abstract:  Computing is expanding at an incredible rate and permeating ever more aspects of everyday life.   There are multiple challenges to this expansion that must be addressed to maintain the public trust through this expansion.  Innovation and collaboration are needed in Design for Test (DFT) and Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability (RAS).   Steve will share examples from AMD while leading a cross functional team addressing these issues.    He will share a vision for the DFT and RAS community to approach these challenges.