June 10, 2021 - 6:00 pm CEST

Virtual Meetup – Luca De Santis

Abstract

HDLs are used in the semiconductor industry to describe the structure and behaviour of digital systems, with the aim of simulating and synthesizing complex hardware architectures. There is a renewed interest today in HDLs due to the new challenges that hardware designers are facing: exponential increasing complexity, critical metrics balance, massive heterogeneous parallelism, emerging of non-Von-Neumann architectures and so on. In this talk, we are going to present the state of the art of HDLs with a particular emphasis on language engineering topics, like syntax features needed to represent hardware and semantics associated with digital hardware simulation.

Biography

Luca De Santis has more than twenty years of experience in the semiconductor industry. He has been leading logic design of sixteen successful memory projects with Micron. His main experience is in the development of embedded processors for non-volatile memories and he is the author of the language/compiler that is still used today to program control software inside Micron’s NAND memory devices. Other than dealing with customized compilers for resource-constrained processors, his interest in DSLs includes the search for a new approach to hardware abstraction, to address the problem of increasing complexity of digital systems. He is graduated in Electronic Engineering at the University of L’Aquila, where he is a lecturer in a course on “Integrated Electronic Systems Design”.

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