Every electronic system you know is either going to get smarter or get replaced. AI is allowing us to solve a new set of problems just recently thought of as impossible. The challenge that we have is to make AI work, not just in the data center, but in all the systems we use and interact with daily. These systems vary from a Falcon Heavy Rocket to a smart contact lens. Some have kilowatts of power available, others not even a microwatt. The AI systems we deliver must meet a vast range of requirements and work in all kinds of environments.
Because AI is computationally very complex, using an average off-the-shelf MPU just isn’t going to get the job done. Russell Klein will describe how you can design the next generation of intelligent systems to surpass these challenges.
At the same time, these systems are often placed in situations where they must work all the time, with no disruptions in service. Ankur Gupta will describe how you can use embedded analytics to design AI systems at the edge that operate reliably, safely, and securely.
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Ankur Gupta
Ankur Gupta is Senior Vice President and General Manager of Digital Design Creation at Siemens EDA. This includes Test, Embedded Analytics, Digital IC design, Power Optimization, and Power Integrity Analysis. Formerly he was head of Product Management and Applications at Ansys, Semiconductor and Head of Applications Engineering for Digital Implementation & Signoff at Cadence Design Systems.
Ankur has 20+ years of experience in EDA, working on some of the industry’s most innovative Test, Digital Design, Implementation and Signoff products. He holds a Master’s Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering, from Iowa State University.
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Russell Klein
Russell Klein is a Program Director at Siemens EDA’s (formerly Mentor Graphics) High-Level Synthesis Division focused on processor platforms. He is currently working on algorithm acceleration through the offloading of complex algorithms running as software on embedded CPUs into hardware accelerators using High-Level Synthesis. He has been with Mentor for over 25 years, holding a variety of engineering, marketing and management positions, primarily focused on the boundary between hardware and software. He holds six patents in the area of hardware/software verification and optimization. Prior to joining Mentor he worked for Synopsys, Logic Modeling, and Fairchild Semiconductor.