Challenges and Opportunities for Technion and the Israeli

Challenges and Opportunities for Technion and the Israeli Chip Industry Avinoam Kolodny EE Department Technion – Israel Institute of Technology July 2010 1 G-Number

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CS EE 3 G-Number

Evolution of an industry Personal Viewpoint l Between Technion and Intel 4 G-Number

1975: Graduated with EE 5 G-Number

My First task at Intel l Ported simulator to Technion’s big IBM computer 6 G-Number

First trip to Intel Santa Clara l Intel Israel acquired a minicomputer l Needed a software person l. I was still a Technion graduate student… l … I asked my advisor… 7 G-Number

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Post Doc at Intel’s Non-Volatile Memory Group l 1980’s: Intel moved from memories to processors 9 G-Number

Design Automation for Processors TL modeling s R ming Analysi Ti Cell libraries sis Logic Synthe 10 G-Number

Intel’s CAD History 11 G-Number

Synthesis-Based Chip Design l Logic designers became programmers l Israel became “Land of chips and software” The 486 Processor 12 G-Number

It was all implied by Moore’s Law: l From memories to processors to systems l Digital revolution: changed the world 13 G-Number

Contribution to Education 14 G-Number

The Positive Spiral Technion Economy Intel Israeli Industry 15 G-Number

Technion and the Israeli Chip Industry Past Present Technion Israeli Chip Industry 16 G-Number

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Back to Technion 18 G-Number

Current Research Challenges l l l Interconnect Energy efficiency Programming of ‘many-core’ systems 19 G-Number

Interconnect and Complexity 20 G-Number

Adding metal Layers in Chips l Wires dominate: – Speed – Power – Noise – Reliability – Cost 21 G-Number

Interconnect Power: 2004 case study l Intel’s Pentium-M (designed in Haifa) l Energy Consumption: – Bit-Transportation > computation ! Gate 34% Interconnect 51 * N. Magen, A. Kolodny, U. Weiser and N. Shamir, “Interconnect-Related Energy dissipation in a Low-Power Microprocessor”, Proc. SLIP, 2004. % Diffusion 15% 22 G-Number

Bits as Cars on the Information highway l Energy efficiency in chip design 23 G-Number

paradigm shift in VLSI: Network on Chip (No. C) From: Dedicated signal wires to: Shared network Module Module Module * E. Bolotin, I. Cidon, R. Ginosar and A. Kolodny. , “QNo. C: Qo. S architecture and design process for Network on Chip”, JSA special issue on No. C, 2004. Computing Resource Module Network switch Network link 24 G-Number

Advanced Circuit Research Center Mellanox TI Marvell Zoran Intel ACRC opening ceremony, 2008 l. A Technion/Industry joint effort 25 G-Number

Beyond 10 Years Ahead: Future Challenges and Opportunities l MOS Device Scaling will slow down – – New ways for system integration Back to basic sciences Interdisciplinary solutions New architectures 26 G-Number

Long Term Issues for the Industry l Flat world – Competition with Asia l Imperatives – – – for Technion and the industry Israel can win by innovation Education: more Ph. D. ’s Need stronger research collaboration 27 G-Number

Mythical Academia-Industry Mismatch l Industry – – – Working results Secret IP Tight schedule Low Risk Control Money l Academia – – – Paper results Publish Slow High risk Freedom Fame 28 G-Number

The Innovation Paradox - Applied Creativity in Organizations l Avi Kolodny (Technion) l Dadi Perlmutter (Intel) l Shlomo Maital (TIM) * F. Chu, A. Kolodny, S. Maital and D. Perlmutter, “The innovation paradox: Reconciling creativity & discipline – How winning organizations combine inspiration with perspiration, ” Proceedings of IEEE International Engineering Management Conference, October 2004. 29 G-Number

“Head in the Clouds, Feet on the Ground” l Let’s apply this for academia-industry joint research! 30 G-Number

Technion and the Industry – Summary of Opportunities 31 G-Number

1) Research Partnership Technion enabled Israeli hi-tech Mostly as an engineering school Industry will need research to innovate - More Ph. D. ’s - Collaboration in research 32 G-Number

2) Industry Funded Research Technology driven by defense Government funded research Economic developments lead Industry must fund academic research 33 G-Number

3) Culture Transformation Technion: theory and individual research Industry: practical short term results Joint research in computer engineering - Long and short terms - Teamwork 34 G-Number

A Specific Plan: Computer Engineering Research Center 35 G-Number

Hardware Physics Electronic devices Computer hardware Software Theory Algorithms Software High Performance Computing Need for integrated view: Hardware and software 36 G-Number

Create a focal point The center as a focal point for collaboration Research in Israel, centered at the Technion, including Academia, R&D from Hi-Tech industry, as well as R&D from leading international companies (Microsoft, Intel, Google, etc. ) 37 G-Number

l The Technion gave invaluable leverage to – – – l Israeli hi-tech industry Individual Alumni Let’s work together for future success! 38 G-Number