Why Attend
The Autonomous Vehicle Hardware Summit is the first and only conference focusing solely on architectural and engineering challenges for silicon, sensors and systems in autonomous vehicles.
The automotive electronics industry will grow to $280 billion by 2020, and will likely look very different, as new entrants such as NVIDIA enter the space with new autonomous driving solutions and advanced-node AI accelerators. Many new entrants have little to no experience of the automotive industry’s stringent functional safety requirements, while testing and simulation methodologies for semiconductor products are meeting with skepticism from auto OEMs and their suppliers.
To control the automated driving value chain a knowledge of hardware is crucial – the hardware architectures of Level 3, 4 & 5 AVs, often termed ‘super computers on wheels’, will be fundamental to the ultimate effectiveness and cost of the vehicle, and the overall quality of the user experience.
The AV Hardware Summit will bring together 150+ tech and auto leaders to help overcome these challenges and pave the way for the next generation of driverless cars.
Who Will Be There
The Speakers
Dragos Maciuca
Junli Gu
Ritesh Tyagi
Ty Garibay
Aravind Ratnam
Alexandre Palus
Hideki Sugimoto
Soshun Arai
Cheng Wang
CHENG WANG. Senior VP Engineering: Architecture, Software, Silicon. Originally from Shanghai, PRC. BSEECS, UC Berkeley. Cheng has led the architecture, silicon implementation and software development for eFPGA over two generations from 180nm-16nm and now neural inferencing. Two years as VLSI designer at Zoran. MSEE, EE PhD UCLA: designed 5 FPGA chips from 90nm to 40nm. 2013 Distinguished PhD Dissertation Award. 2014 ISSCC Lewis Winner Award for Outstanding Paper. Multiple patents at UCLA and Flex Logix.
Flex Logix’s NMAX platform excels at getting high hardware utilization at batch=1, which is critical for edge applications. Most of the new information is in the 2nd half of the slide deck.
NMAX delivers from 1 to 100+TOPS, as you need, at 10x lower cost and 3-5x lower power than existing solutions because we get 50-80% MAC utilization on tough models, meaning we need less silicon area, and we achieve it with 10x less DRAM bandwidth, meaning less DRAM cost and system power.
Darren Liccardo
Kurt Shuler
Modar Alaoui
Chuck Gershman
Sumit Gupta
Ching Hu
Gold Partner
Flex Logix
Website: http://www.flex-logix.com
Flex Logix’ NMAX inferencing accelerators provide very high throughput and hardware utilization even at batch size = 1, with low system cost and system power.
NMAX MAC utilization is over 50% even at batch size = 1. For most inferencing engines utilization drops dramatically from batch 10 to batch 1 because they stall loading weights. High MAC utilization means less silicon area needed for the same throughput.
NMAX uses proprietary Flex Logix interconnect technology to utilize local, distributed SRAM very efficiently generating very high local bandwidth and dropping DRAM bandwidth requires to that of 1 or 2 LPDDR4 DRAMs, even for YOLOv3 at 30 frames/second. This lowers power and lowers cost.
NMAX will be available in TSMC16FFC/12FFC in mid 2019.
Media Partners
CVTA
Website: http://www.connectedvehicle.org
The Connected Vehicle Trade Association (CVTA) is a non-profit business league established to facilitate the interaction, and advance the interests, of the entities involved in the vehicle communication environment. The Connected Vehicle Trade Association enables the collaboration of companies, organizations, and governmental bodies engaged in developing bidirectional vehicle communications. Membership is open to any corporation, public entities, standards and specification organizations and educational institutions.
Emerj
Website: http://www.emerj.com
Emerj helps business leaders survive and thrive in AI disruption. Jargon free research, case studies and business insight. Connecting business leaders to the products and services they need to stay ahead of the competition.
Chip Design Magazine
Website: http://chipdesignmag.com/index.php
Please visit our website for more information.Solid State Technology
Website: http://www.solid-state.com
Solid State Technology reaches the largest, most qualified community of decision makers for semiconductor and electronics manufacturing through the magazine, email newsletters, website, webcasts and The ConFab Conference & Networking event. Topics include Advanced Packaging, MEMS, LEDs and Displays as well as current trends in the industry.
Visit us here www.solid-state.com
Tractica
Website: http://www.tractica.com
Tractica, an Informa business, is a market intelligence firm that focuses on emerging technologies. Tractica’s global market research and consulting services combine qualitative and quantitative research methodologies to provide a comprehensive view of the emerging market opportunities surrounding Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, User Interface Technologies, Advanced Computing, Connected & Autonomous Vehicles, and Wearables & Digital Health. For more information, visit www.tractica.com.
Driverless Guru
Website: https://www.driverlessguru.com
DriverlessGuru.com provides news and insights into the autonomous and connected vehicles sector, including a regular series of interviews with the experts. We also publish Driverless Weekly, a digest that helps you to keep track of the latest industry developments.
Vehicle Electronics
Website: https://vehicle-electronics.biz
Vehicle Electronics is the free monthly magazine for hardware and software automotive electronics engineers. Our more than 9200 readers - many in the major car makers and their suppliers - rely on our insight every month, whether they are in Europe, North America or Asia.
Automotive-Technology.com
Website: http://www.automotive-technology.com
Please visit our website for more information.Semiconductor Engineering
Website: https://semiengineering.com/
Please visit our website for more information.Autonomous Vehicle Technology
Website: https://www.autonomousvehicletech.com/
Please visit our website for more information.The Agenda
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Venue
San Jose Marriott, 301 South Market St, San Jose, CA, 95113
San Jose Marriott
301 South Market St
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