[BLU/Officers] Topics for upcoming BLU meetings

[John Abreau]

Thanks, Shankar. I've updated the BLU calendar with the topic "Designing
and Bringing Silicon to Market".

Can you send me some details to add to the calendar?

http://blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/2019-oct


On Sun, Jul 21, 2019 at 12:33 PM Shankar Viswanathan <
shankar.viswan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sure, we can do that. If you don't have a speaker lined up for a
> particular month, you can pencil me in.
>
> I have been doing a fair bit of work-related travel in the past few
> months, I'm hoping I can avoid traveling the week of the Oct BLU meeting.
>
> -Shankar
>
> On 7/21/19 10:51 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
>
> Maybe we can schedule a couple of talks
>
> On Sun, Jul 21, 2019, 10:43 AM Shankar Viswanathan <
> shankar.viswan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> There's one other topic I forgot to mention:
>> 3. The process of designing and bringing silicon to market: from early
>> concept, different phases of design and product validation
>>
>>
>> On 7/21/19 10:28 AM, Shankar Viswanathan wrote:
>>
>> Hi Jabr,
>>
>> I can shoot for the Oct 16 meeting. I have a couple of ideas for the
>> topics:
>> 1. Q&A about how modern processors and PC platform in general work: I can
>> send out an email ahead of time to the discuss list asking for questions
>> and I can prepare some slides based on the response. I can also answer
>> questions live during the meeting
>> 2. Things about memory every programmer should know - details about DRAM
>> architecture, cache coherence and memory consistency models
>>
>> I can also talk very briefly about the latest generation of Ryzen
>> products.
>>
>> Let me know if you have a preference for the topic.
>>
>> -Shankar
>>
>> On 7/19/19 2:19 AM, John Abreau wrote:
>>
>> Hi, Shankar.
>>
>> Just to follow up, Jeff Schiller will be speaking at the December BLU
>> meeting.
>>
>> We're still looking to fill October 16 and January 15.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 1:20 AM John Abreau <abreauj at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi, Shankar.
>>>
>>> Can you send me some ideas for what you might talk about at an upcoming
>>> BLU meeting? We're currently looking for speakers for October 16, December
>>> 18, and January 15.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
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