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Hi Jabr,<br>
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You can use the following summary for the talk:<br>
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This talk will be about the different steps involved in designing a
silicon chip: all the way from a design concept to taking it to
volume production. A typical PC processor will be used as an example
but the steps are generally applicable to any silicon integrated
circuit design.<br>
It is meant to be a brief introduction to IC design, but more
importantly, it is to answer questions about the whole process (not
a monologue). So bring your questions or send it via email ahead of
the talk.<br>
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-Shankar<br>
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<div>Thanks, Shankar. I've updated the BLU calendar with the
topic "Designing and Bringing Silicon to Market". <br>
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<div>Can you send me some details to add to the calendar?</div>
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<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> Sure, we can do that. If you don't
have a speaker lined up for a particular month, you can
pencil me in. <br>
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I have been doing a fair bit of work-related travel in the
past few months, I'm hoping I can avoid traveling the week
of the Oct BLU meeting.<br>
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-Shankar<br>
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7/21/19 10:51 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote:<br>
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<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> There's one other topic I
forgot to mention:<br>
3. The process of designing and bringing silicon to
market: from early concept, different phases of
design and product validation<br>
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<blockquote type="cite"> Hi Jabr,<br>
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I can shoot for the Oct 16 meeting. I have a
couple of ideas for the topics:<br>
1. Q&A about how modern processors and PC
platform in general work: I can send out an email
ahead of time to the discuss list asking for
questions and I can prepare some slides based on
the response. I can also answer questions live
during the meeting<br>
2. Things about memory every programmer should
know - details about DRAM architecture, cache
coherence and memory consistency models<br>
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I can also talk very briefly about the latest
generation of Ryzen products.<br>
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Let me know if you have a preference for the
topic.<br>
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-Shankar<br>
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<div>Just to follow up, Jeff Schiller will
be speaking at the December BLU meeting. <br>
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<div>We're still looking to fill October 16
and January 15. <br>
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<div>Hi, Shankar. <br>
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<div>Can you send me some ideas for what
you might talk about at an upcoming
BLU meeting? We're currently looking
for speakers for October 16, December
18, and January 15. <br>
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<div>Thanks! <br>
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