Keynotes
Addressing Emerging Fault Modes with Testing and Reliability
Speaker: Vilas Sridharan, Ph.D.
AMD
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Vilas Sridharan is currently an AMD Senior Fellow where he leads the RAS (Reliability, Availability and Serviceability)
Architecture team. His research focuses on the modeling of hardware faults and architectural and micro-architectural
approaches to reliability and fault tolerance in high-performance microprocessors. Vilas received his Ph.D. and M.S.E.
from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern University, and his B.S.E. in Computer
Engineering from Princeton University in 2000. From 2000 - 2004, he worked in the SPARC server division at Sun Microsystems.
Since 2010, he has been on AMD's RAS Architecture team.
High Performance 64-bit HPSC Microprocessor (MPU) for a New Era of Autonomous Space Computing
Speaker: Nicolas Ganry
Microchip
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Nicolas Ganry is Senior Product Marketing Manager for Aerospace & Defense applications at
Microchip Technology. He joined the company in 2012, bringing with him 15 years of experience in
various electronic systems (hardware and software development).
Nicolas is leading Aerospace & Defense product line in France delivering space qualified processors,
microcontrollers, memories, and communication interfaces. He is also driving business development
activities in Europe for all Microchip products.
Located in Nantes (ex-Atmel site), Nicolas is representing Microchip in Europe at ESA CTB working
closely with European Space agencies (ESA, CNES, DLR, …) and space industry primes.
Benefits of Using Functional Safety in Commercial Space Applications
Speaker: Michael Seidl
Texas Instruments
Michael received his Dipl. Ing. (FH) degree in communication technologies from Fachhochschule Munich in Germany.
Michael has 29 years of experience in semiconductors and held positions in DSP
software design, applications, product marketing, business development and system
engineering.
Michael is a Systems Engineer for Aerospace Applications at Texas Instruments.
He supports customers in their decision making with in-depth system knowledge,
combined with expertise on TI's product offerings.
Preventing Silent Data Corruption in a Hyper-scale Database
Speaker: David F. Bacon
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David F. Bacon is a Principal Engineer at Google, where he leads the design and evolution of
the Spanner storage engine (Ressi) along with the exploitation of new hardware technologies
in databases. David received his A.B. from Columbia University in 1985 and his Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley in 1997.
His prior work includes compilation and run-time systems for object-oriented programming
(used in most JVMs and modern compilers), hardware compilation, and real-time garbage collection
(for which he was made a Fellow of the ACM). He has served on the governing boards of ACM SIGPLAN and SIGBED.