The IEEE Central Texas Consultants
Network is an affinity group of the Institute of
Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.
(IEEE) Region 5 Central Texas
Section.
Objective
The Consultants Network promotes the development
of members' careers through professional and
social networking, including publicizing members'
skills and sharing potential professional
opportunities, and supports the IEEE Central Texas
Section.
Meetings - General Information
The Consultants Network meets monthly. Except
when meeting jointly with other groups, the
Consultants Network meets on the fourth Wednesday
of each month. Meetings usually begin with
informal networking from 6:00 to 6:30 p.m.,
followed by presentations from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.
by experts in technology, marketing, sales,
advertising, financial or legal needs of small
businesses and special needs of consultants
September 21,
2023
RISC-V Thunderbird Soc for HPC and
AI Applications
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Topic: |
RISC-V
Thunderbird SOC for HPC and AI
Applications
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Abstract: |
Doug will give an
overview of Austin-based InspireSemi's
disruptive next generation Thunderbird
compute accelerator for HPC&AI
applications. This RISC-V based
"supercomputer-cluster-on-a-chip" packs
1,800 high performance CPU cores (all
FP64 double-precision of their own
design) onto a single SOC. For
maximum/predictable performance and low
latency, these CPU cores are all
interconnected with their high
bandwidth, low-latency mesh interconnect
that can connect up to 256 of
Thunderbird chips. After 3 years of
customer-driven development, the chip is
in final verification and will tape out
at the end of September to TSMC. He will
also share why the team chose to
leverage the open hardware RISC-V ISA
vs. other options and provide an
overview of some of the many initiatives
in the thriving RISC-V ecosystem.
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Speaker |
Doug Norton
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Speaker's bio |

Doug Norton
is the Chief
Marketing Officer at Inspire
Semiconductor.
InspireSemi is an Austin-based
company delivering a
breakthrough next-generation
accelerated computing solution
for HPC, AI, and graph
analytics applications that
leverages the open standard
RISC-V ISA (Instruction Se
Architecture).
Doug began his
career in product development
at IBM and moved into the
sales & marketing
organization to expand IBM's
reach into new
engineering/scientific
markets. He then went on to
various senior leadership
positions at Cadence Design
Systems, CoWare, Newisys,
Virtual Instruments, Nimbix,
and other early-stage
companies.
Doug is also
President of the Society of
HPC Professionals (SHPCP), a
non-profit, vendor-neutral
organization whose purpose is
to educate and connect the HPC
user community, industry, and
academia with state-of-the-art
technology and best practices.
He is also a contributor to
the RISC-V International
SIG-HPC as well as the RISC-V
marketing and events
committees. He serves on the
Venture Mentoring Service for
the Austin Technology
Incubator (ATI) at The
University of Texas and is a
technology and business
advisor to HealthClicks. Doug
earned a BS in Electrical
Engineering cum laude from
Missouri University of Science
& Technology.
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Thursday,
September 21, 2023 : 6:00 - 7:30pm
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If you are interested in professional career
development and cross-training in varied technical
fields, please consider joining the Central Texas
Consultants Network. And bring a colleague!
Presentation materials, if available, may be
obtained after the meeting through the Past Meetings page.
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