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CASS-Wide Webinar VIII: SoC Design Solutions Inspired from the Past

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Ricardo Reis

Country
BRA
Affiliation
Instituto de Informática, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, at Porto Alegre, Brazil

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Abstract

A significant challenge nowadays is optimizing the power consumption of Systems-on-Chips (SoC) while improving performance. At the same time, the analysis of instructions used in microprocessors brings about the development of RISC machines. By doing reserve engineering of an old microprocessor, it is possible to get other architecture options that inspire alternative architecture solutions. Dedicated modules like hardware accelerators are excellent approaches to reducing power and improving performance. The reverse engineering of old microprocessors, designed by hand, also shows attractive physical design solutions that also inspire new physical design strategies that can reduce power reduction and improve performance.

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You are invited to a Zoom webinar. 
When: May 31, 2023 09:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada) 
Topic: CASS-Wide Webinar VIII: SoC Design Solutions Inspired from the Past

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Biography

Ricardo Reis received a Bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering from Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil, in 1978, and a Ph.D. degree in Microelectronics from the National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble (INPG), France, in 1983. Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of Montpellier in 2016. He is a full professor at the Informatics Institute of Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. His main research includes physical design automation, design methodologies, fault tolerant systems and microelectronics education. He has more than 700 publications including books, journals and conference proceedings. He was vice-president of IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing) and he was also president of the Brazilian Computer Society (two terms) and vice-president of the Brazilian Microelectronics Society. He is an active member of CASS and he received the 2015 IEEE CASS Meritorious Service Award. He was vice-president of CASS for two terms (2008/2011). He is the founder of the Rio Grande do Sul CAS Chapter, which got the World CASS Chapter of The Year Award 2011, 2012, 2018 and 2022, and R9 Chapter of The Year 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017 and 2020. He is a founder of several conferences like SBCCI and LASCAS, the CASS Flagship Conference in Region 9. He was the General or Program Chair of several conferences like IEEE ISVLSI, SBCCI, IFIP VLSI-SoC, ICECS, PATMOS. Ricardo was the Chair of the IFIP/IEEE VLSI-SoC Steering Committee, vice-chair of the IFIP WG10.5 and he is Chair of IFIP TC10. He also started with the EMicro, an annually microelectronics school in South Brazil. In 2002 he received the Researcher of the Year Award in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. He is a founding member of the SBC (Brazilian Computer Society) and also founding member of SBMicro (Brazilian Microelectronics Society).  He was member of CASS DLP Program (2014/2015), and he has done more than 70 invited talks in conferences. Member of IEEE CASS BoG and IEEE CEDA BoG. He is the CASS representative at the IEEE IoT TC. Ricardo received the IFIP Fellow Award in 2021 and the ACM/ISPD Lifetime Achievement Award in 2022. He received the 2023 IEEE CASS John Choma Educational Award.