Current DVClub Events
The principal goal of DVClub is to have fun while helping build the verification community through quarterly educational and networking events. DVClub currently has chapters in Austin, Bangalore, Boston, Dallas, RTP, San Diego, and Silicon Valley.
Bangalore – Q1 2010 – Krishnaraj Rao and Nirajnayan Sharma
Title: Bangalore – Q1 2010 – Krishnaraj Rao and Nirajnayan Sharma
Venue: Diya Room, Leela Palace / Bangalore
Category: Bangalore
Date: 03.12.2010
Time: 10.30 h – 13.30 h
Description: Topic:
GPU – 3D Games to HPC and Verification and Synthesizable Modeling
Speakers:
Krishnaraj Rao, nVidia, Bangalore
- Krishnaraj Rao is currently working as a Sr. Engineering Manager at Nvidia, responsible for design & development of IPs that go into Nvidia products.
- He has been at Nvidia for the past 12 years, and has worked on GPUs as well as managed Chipset products and IP Groups.
- Prior to Nvidia, he worked for 4 years at Weitek and Rockwell Semiconductors in areas of 2D Graphics, Video & Displays.
- He has a BSEE from Mangalore University and an MSEE from Louisiana State University.
- Krishnaraj has filed for 11 patents in the field of Graphics and Display subsystems, of which 5 have been issued.
Nirajnayan Sharma, Bluespec, Bangalore
- Nirajnayan Sharma heads Bluespec's Engineering and Marketing operations in India and is based out of Bangalore. Bluespec supplies the global electronics market with tool-sets, and IP leveraging the industry's high-level synthesis solution that embraces system, control, algorithmic, and verification IP
- Niraj has worked in the VLSI space for close to 10 years. Prior to Bluespec, he held positions in architecture, design, and verification at Analog Devices, Intel, and National Semiconductor. Niraj is a B.Tech. in Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering from IIT Kharagpur
Agenda: 10:30-11AM: Coffee/Snacks 10:45–11AM: Welcome the gathering followed by first speaker introduction 11–11:45AM: An Introduction to GPU – 3D Games to HPC, Krishnaraj Rao, nVidia, Bangalore 11:45–11:50AM: Speaker introduction 11:50–12:30PM: Synthesizable Verification and Modeling – The next validation platform, Nirajnayan Sharma, Bluespec, Bangalore 12:30-1:30PM: Lunch/interaction Registration:
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