Join technology experts from Rambus and our partners for two days of webinars and panels covering the selection and implementation of IP solutions for the data center, 5G/edge and IoT devices including accelerating and securing AI/ML applications. Critical enabling IP including HBM2E, GDDR6, PCIe 5.0 and MIPI interfaces as well as Root of Trust and network security protocol engines will be covered.
Rambus fellow, Dr. Steven Woo, will keynote the conference with an exploration of technologies that will shape the future evolution of the data center.
Featured Speakers
Steven Woo, Fellow and Distinguished Engineer
Steven Woo is a Fellow and Distinguished Inventor at Rambus Inc. Since joining Rambus, Steve has worked in various roles leading architecture, technology, and performance analysis efforts, and in marketing and product planning roles leading strategy and customer programs. Steve has over 30 patents in the areas of memory, memory systems, and neural networks. Steve received his PhD and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, and Master of Engineering and BS Engineering degrees from Harvey Mudd College.Steven Woo
Fellow and Distinguished Inventor, Rambus
John Eble, VP, Product Marketing, Rambus
John C. Eble received his B.Cmp.E. (’93), M.S.E.E (’94), and Ph.D. EE (’99) from Georgia Tech. From 1998 to 2001 he worked at Compaq on EV7 high-speed I/O circuits in the Alpha Microprocessor Development Group. He then joined Velio Communications as a circuit designer. In 2003, he joined Rambus Inc. where he has held many engineering and research management roles and specialized in the design of high-speed I/O and next-generation memory interconnect architectures. He has authored over 30 technical publications, 10 patents, and a book chapter. He is currently VP of Product Marketing for Rambus’ memory interconnect chip business unit.
John Eble
VP, Product Marketing, Rambus
Justin Endo, Sales and Marketing Manager, Mixel
As Mixel's marketing manager, Justin Endo oversees marketing strategy and customer engagement, from Mixel's headquarters in San Jose. In this role, he manages Mixel’s exhibition presence at industry events, press releases, white papers and promotes Mixel’s mixed-signal IP portfolio in various industry media. Additionally, Justin serves as MIPI Alliance DevCon committee Chair. He holds a BA, with a double major in Economics and French, from the University of California, Los Angeles and an MBA from The University of Melbourne – Melbourne Business School.Justin Endo
Frank Ferro, Senior Director, Product Marketing, Rambus
Frank Ferro is the senior director of product management at Rambus Inc. responsible for memory interface IP products. Having spent more than 20 years at AT&T, Lucent and Agere Systems, he has extensive experience in wireless communications, networking and consumer electronics fields. Mr. Ferro holds an executive MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, an M.S. in computer science and a B.S.E.T. in electronic engineering technology from the New Jersey Institute of Technology.Frank Ferro
Sr. Director, Product Marketing, Rambus
Matt Jones, Sr. Director and GM of IP Cores, Rambus
Matt Jones is the General Manager for the IP Cores Business Unit at Rambus. He is responsible for development and growth of the company’s interface IP products, driving memory and interconnect architectural innovation in Data Center and Edge Connectivity applications. Before joining Rambus, Matt held various product line management and marketing positions for microprocessor, connectivity and power management products over a twenty-four-year career at IDT, later acquired by Renesas. Matt holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Stanford University.
Matt Jones
Sr. Director and GM, Rambus IP Cores
Alain Legault, VP IP Products, Hardent
Alain Legault is VP IP Products at Hardent where he is responsible for spearheading the product definition and development of its semiconductor IP portfolio. He has more than 25 years of experience managing multidisciplinary engineering projects and developing video-related semiconductor products. He holds a BSEE from the Polytechnique Montréal.Alain Legault
VP IP Products, Hardent
Neeraj Paliwal, VP and GM, Rambus Security
Neeraj is currently the VP and GM at Rambus Security BU, based out of Silicon Valley, CA. He has 20+ years of semiconductors engineering experience in compute and security domains. At Rambus, Neeraj is responsible for the CryptoManager Secure Silicon IP and Provisioning products. Before joining Rambus, Neeraj founded Kryptos Solutions, where he built an ultra-secure endpoint platform for high-risk government applications. Prior to that, Neeraj was the VP of Engineering at NXP Semiconductors, responsible for major OEM design-win for NXP’s NFC based secure payment platform. Neeraj also held various engineering positions at IBM and Intel working on gaming processors, and CPU products.
Neeraj graduated with a Master of Technology degree in Solid State Materials from the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi, India. He attended the Stanford Executive Program at Stanford University, California.
Neeraj Paliwal
Joe Rodriguez, Product Marketing Manager, Rambus
Joe Rodriguez is a Product Marketing Manager with the Rambus Controller Group. He is an expert at Memory IP and MIPI controller IP for Enterprise, Cloud, Networking, IoT, AI and Mobile applications. Before joining Rambus, Joe held Product and Technical Marketing Management positions at the Mentor Graphics Design Verification Division. Prior to that, he was an expert in emulation as a Field Engineer for Cadence Design Systems and a Modeling Engineer at Synopsys.
Joe Rodriguez
Product Marketing Manager, Rambus
Vinitha Seevaratnam, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Rambus
Vinitha Seevaratnam is the Sr. Product Marketing Manager at Rambus, an IP Core provider specializing in Memory, PCI Express and MIPI controller cores. Vinitha’s primary focus during her 20+ year career has been in semiconductor and communication/storage product segments. Her 14+ years has been with Rambus (formerly Northwest Logic). Prior to Rambus, Vinitha worked at Northwest Logic, Thomson Grass Valley, Tektronix, Inc., and Mentor Graphics. She has a B.S. from University of Washington in Electrical Engineering.Vinitha Seevaratnam
Ed Sperling, Editor in Chief, Semiconductor Engineering
Ed Sperling is the editor in chief of Semiconductor Engineering. He is a technology industry veteran and frequent moderator and speaker in Silicon Valley. Sperling is a former contributing editor at Forbes, and former editor in chief of Electronic News and Electronic Business. Prior to that he held top editorial positions at Ziff-Davis and CMP Publications.
Ed Sperling
Editor in Chief, Semiconductor Engineering
Bart Stevens, Sr. Director of Product Management, Rambus Security
Bart Stevens is senior director of product management for Rambus Security. He is an expert on embedded security for Enterprise, Cloud, Automotive, Networking, Wireless, IoT and Mobile applications. Before joining Rambus, Bart held positions at Inside Secure as Vice President of silicon IP and secure communication, and as Director of product management, with responsibility for security chip and silicon IP products. Prior to those roles, Bart managed SafeNet’s OEM networking and wireless HW research and development teams. He has also held product and engineering management roles at Securealink and Philips Semiconductors in the Netherlands. He began his career as an ASIC designer.Bart Stevens
Sr. Director of Product Management, Rambus
Gijs Willemse, Sr. Director of Product Management, Rambus
Gijs is senior director of product management for Rambus Security. Gijs has been working in the Security IP business for over 18 years. In various roles, he has always engaged directly with many of the tear 1 SoC manufacturers, securing their assets and protecting their products from vulnerabilities in the field. His roots are in the high-speed networking IPs deployed in modern data centers and 5G networks. With Rambus, its security IPs, small footprint consumer devices to high end/high speed server products are secured through their complete lifecycle. Gijs has a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering (Information Technology) from the Technical University in Eindhoven and he holds several patents.Gijs Willemse
Joe Gow, Senior Director, Product Management, Rambus
Joe Gow is the Senior Director of the Secure Provisioning and Cloud Security Services businesses for Rambus Security. In this role, Joe is responsible for defining and delivering innovative security solutions that address the factory provisioning needs of semiconductor and OEM companies that enable chips and devices to be trusted throughout their lifetime, helping to ensure the integrity of the semiconductor supply chain. These manufacturing security solutions are supported by cloud-based key and certificate management services that enable OEMs and managed service providers (MSPs) to leverage this trust to manage the identity and security of connected things. Prior to Rambus, Joe has held product and business management leadership roles with leading enterprise security software and cloud security companies including Symantec, GuardienEdge, Avaya, Websense, and Elemental Security.
Joe Gow
Sr. Director, Product Management, Rambus
Phani Paladugu, Director, Field Applications Engineering, Rambus
Phani Paladugu is Director of Field Application Engineering at Rambus, responsible for interface and memory IP cores. Before joining Rambus, Phani was a Senior Manager, Interface IP applications at Cadence. Prior to this role, he spent more than 10 years at Aricent, ST Microelectronics and has extensive experience in designing high speed interfaces for ethernet, storage, networking and automotive applications. Phani holds a MS in Electrical Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Warangal, India.
Phani Paladugu
Director, Field Applications Engineering, Rambus
Shane Rau, Research Vice President, Computing Semiconductors, IDC
Shane Rau leads IDC's computing semiconductor research within IDC's Enabling Technologies team. Mr. Rau's research covers microprocessors and SoCs, discrete graphics processors (GPUs), FPGAs, and artificial intelligence (AI) accelerators in systems across the internet, including in the data center, in PCs, and at the edge, such as embedded and intelligent systems.
Mr. Rau provides in-depth insight and intelligence on market sizing, forecasting, technology trends, vendors, pricing trends, and market share. Through collaboration with PC, server and embedded systems analysts colleagues, Mr. Rau spearheads IDC research initiatives into system supply chains, technologies and interface attach rates, as well as into the changing semiconductor vendor market power dynamics.
Shane Rau
Research Vice President, Computing Semiconductors, IDC
Agenda
We’re still working on finalizing the agenda, but please see below for the initial agenda! Check back as this will be updated regularly. All Rambus Design Summit sessions will be presented in Pacific Standard Time.
| Time | Session |
|---|---|
| 9:00am – 10:00am | Keynote: Emerging Compute Architectures for the Evolving Data Center Speaker: Steven Woo |
| 10:00am – 10:45am | Selecting the Right High Bandwidth Memory Solution Speaker: Frank Ferro |
| 11:00am – 12:00pm | Selection and Implementation of a PCIe 5.0 Subsystem Speakers: Malini Narayanamoorthi and Vinitha Seevaratnam |
| 12:00pm – 1:00pm | Next-Generation Displays: An Integrated IP Solution from Mixel, Rambus & Hardent Speakers: Justin Endo | Joe Rodriguez | Alain Legault |
| Time | Session |
|---|---|
| 9:00am – 10:00am | Panel: Data Center Dynamics Speakers: Ed Sperling | Steven Woo | Matt Jones | John Eble | Neeraj Paliwal |
| 10:00am – 10:45am | Securing Data Center AI/ML Workloads Speaker: Bart Stevens |
| 11:00am – 12:00pm | Securing High-Speed Data in Motion Speaker: Gijs Willemse |