Keynote Topic: Pushing the Edges - Nanometers and Giga-complexity

Speaker: Gadi Singer, Vice President of Intel's Enterprise Platform Group and General Manager of the Enterprise Processors Division (EPD)

Abstract:
VLSI design is relentlessly driving the edges of the envelope - creating quantitative leads every year and qualitative fundamental leaps every few years. The engine of this phenomenal long stretch of technology expansion is the shrinking dimensions of the transistors and their inter-connections.

Gadi Singer will take a look at the trends of the last years and the projections for the years ahead. These shrinking features have direct implications on the technical challenges in VLSI design and the CAD/methodologies required to enable it in multiple domains such as accurate timing and noise analysis or automated place and route. The drive to smaller nanometer dimensions is indirectly responsible for push for higher complexities. With projects consisting of hundreds of millions of transistors already committed to silicon, the day of the billion-transistors devices is quickly approaching.

Gadi will look at this Giga-Tx trajectory and evaluate some of aspects of today's and tomorrows' complexity driven challenges such as productivity and testability.

Bio:
Gadi Singer is a vice president of Intel's Enterprise Platform Group and general manager of the Enterprise Processors Division (EPD). EPD is responsible for developing enterprise processors for the Internet, Server and Workstation market segments.

From 1993 to August 1998, Singer served as the general manager of MPG's (Microprocessor Products Group) Design Technology Division. During this time, he oversaw the transformation of the organization from a CAD design tool-oriented operation to one of the most comprehensive solution providers for design, test, and validation in the industry, delivering tools, flows, methodologies, libraries and complete development environments. He became co-general manager of the IA-64 Processor Division in 1998 and General Manager of Enterprise Processors Division in 2000. He was appointed vice president in January 1999. Most recently, Singer successfully managed the entire product development of the Itanium™ processor.

Singer has held a variety of senior technical and management positions in Software Engineering, CAD Development and Chip Design since he joined Intel in 1983. From 1984 to 1986, he was a project lead on Intel's commercial x86 compiler projects at Intel Israel. From 1986 to 1989, Singer led several CAD Software development projects in the areas of Hardware Description Languages, Logic Simulation, Formal Verification and Fault Grading. From 1989 to 1993, he served in senior management positions on the Pentium® processor design team and a next generation processor design team.

Prior to joining Intel, Singer was a software engineer at Elbit Electronics in Israel from 1981 to 1983. Singer received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Technion University, Israel, in 1983. He pursued graduate studies at Technion University from 1986 to 1988.