Global Synergy in Silicon: VLSI and Embedded AI for Sustainable Computing and Next-Gen Electrified Mobility
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VLSID 2026 – Detailed Agenda
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Time: 8 AM to 9 AM
Keynote : TBD
Vivekanand Auditorium
Time: 9:00 AM to 9:30 AM
Track Chair: Hall 1 Chair
9.30 AM to 11 AM
Supercharge your RISC-V Designs with Higher Abstraction Shift-Left
Ayush Mewati & Aditya Tiwari - CircuitSutra Technologies
11 AM to 11.30 AM
Tea Break – Take a breather, sip some chai, and spark meaningful conversations.
11.30 AM to 1.00 PM
Safe and Secure RISC-V Processors for Software-Defined-Vehicles
Sourav Roy & Neha Srivastava - NXP
1.00 PM to 2.00 PM
Lunch Break – Refuel and recharge while networking with fellow innovators.
2.00 PM to 3.30 PM
Foundry Compliance and Tapeout Readiness - A Complete Framework from Design Verification to Silicon Qualification
Venkata Reddy Kolagatla & Vivian Desalphine - CDAC
3.30 PM to 4.00 PM
Tea Break – Recharge with an evening brew and spark fresh ideas for the final sessions.
4.00 PM to 5.30 PM
Physical Design and Timing Closure challenges in advance technology nodes
Vinayak Mehetre - Qualcomm
Track Chair: Hall 2 Chair
9.30 PM to 11.00 PM
Brains and Brawn: AI for Hardware, Hardware for AI
Sri Parameswaran - UNSW Syndney, Siddharth Garg - NYU Tandon, Soumya J & Paresh Saxena - BITS Pilani - Hyderbad
11 AM to 11.30 AM
Tea Break – Take a breather, sip some chai, and spark meaningful conversations.
9.30 AM to 11.00 AM
CONTINUED - Brains and Brawn: AI for Hardware, Hardware for AI
Sri Parameswaran - UNSW Syndney, Siddharth Garg - NYU Tandon, Soumya J & Paresh Saxena - BITS Pilani - Hyderbad
1.00 PM to 2.00 PM
Lunch Break – Refuel and recharge while networking with fellow innovators.
2.00 PM to 3.30 PM
ADAS & Autonomous Driving – Hardware & Software System
Vivek Vasantha - Renesas India
3.30 PM to 4.00 PM
Tea Break – Recharge with an evening brew and spark fresh ideas for the final sessions.
4.00 PM to 5.30 PM
Automotive Electronics - Challenges and Opportunities *
Prasanna BV - HCL *
Track Chair: Hall 3 Chair
9.30 AM to 11 AM
Reliability at Scale in Enterprise Hardware
Anand Venkitasubramani & Daniel Lewis - IBM
11 AM to 11.30 AM
Tea Break – Take a breather, sip some chai, and spark meaningful conversations.
11.30 AM to 1.00 PM
Energy-Efficient Acceleration with Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Arrays: From Fundamentals to Applications
Satyajit Das - IIT Guwahati, Chilankamol Sunny - AMD
1.00 PM to 2.00 PM
Lunch Break – Refuel and recharge while networking with fellow innovators.
2.00 PM to 3.30 PM
FPGA-Based System Design for VLSI Engineers: Leveraging Lattice Solution
Prashant Deokar & Vishal Sonawane - Lattice Semiconductor
3.30 PM to 4.00 PM
Tea Break – Recharge with an evening brew and spark fresh ideas for the final sessions.
4.00 PM to 5.30 PM
High Bandwidth Memory: Memory For AI
Ramesh Natesh, Narayana Reddy Yatam & Shashikumar Gautam - Micron
Track Chair: Hall 4 Chair
9.30 AM to 11 AM
Satellite and Space Technolgy*
GalaxEye*
11 AM to 11.30 AM
Tea Break – Take a breather, sip some chai, and spark meaningful conversations.
11.30 AM to 1.00 PM
Drone Design: The Practical Approach
Pranav Virmani - Botlab Technologies
1.00 PM to 2.00 PM
Lunch Break – Refuel and recharge while networking with fellow innovators.
2.00 PM to 3.30 PM
Time Sensitive Networking and its Application in Software Defined Vehicles: Protocols, Scheduling and Performance Guarantees
Arnab Sarkar - IIT KGP, Arijit Mondal - IITP & Jaishree Mayank - IIT-ISMD
3.30 PM to 4.00 PM
Tea Break – Recharge with an evening brew and spark fresh ideas for the final sessions.
4.00 PM to 5.30 PM
CONTINUED : Time Sensitive Networking and its Application in Software Defined Vehicles: Protocols, Scheduling and Performance Guarantees
Arnab Sarkar - IIT KGP, Arijit Mondal - IITP & Jaishree Mayank - IIT-ISMD
Track Chair: Hall 1 Chair
9.30 AM to 11 AM
Evolution of Embedded Sensors for SoC in Nanometer and Angstrom Technology Era
Mrinal Das - Synopsys
11 AM to 11.30 AM
Tea Break – Take a breather, sip some chai, and spark meaningful conversations.
11.30 AM to 1.00 PM
CONTINUED : Evolution of Embedded Sensors for SoC in Nanometer and Angstrom Technology Era
Mrinal Das - Synopsys
1.00 PM to 2.00 PM
Lunch Break – Refuel and recharge while networking with fellow innovators.
2.00 PM to 3.30 PM
Scalable System Simulation for Large Language Model Workloads
Debjyoti Bhattacharjee & Arindam Mallik - IMEC
3.30 PM to 4.00 PM
Tea Break – Recharge with an evening brew and spark fresh ideas for the final sessions.
4.00 PM to 5.30 PM
CONTINUED : Scalable System Simulation for Large Language Model Workloads
Debjyoti Bhattacharjee & Arindam Mallik - IMEC
Track Chair: Hall 2 Chair
9.30 PM to 11.00 PM
Chip Design Simplified using Agentic AI
Arpan Sircar & Shivsantosh Singh - Intel
11 AM to 11.30 AM
Tea Break – Take a breather, sip some chai, and spark meaningful conversations.
9.30 AM to 11.00 AM
Clock Domain Crossing and Synchronization
Sanjay Churiwala - AMD
1.00 PM to 2.00 PM
Lunch Break – Refuel and recharge while networking with fellow innovators.
2.00 PM to 3.30 PM
EDA Routing and Technology Enablement at Advanced Nodes
Diwesh Pandey & Mithula Madiraju - IBM
3.30 PM to 4.00 PM
Tea Break – Recharge with an evening brew and spark fresh ideas for the final sessions.
4.00 PM to 5.30 PM
Introduction to Quantum Computing
Anindita Banerjee - CDAC
Track Chair: Hall 3 Chair
9.30 AM to 11 AM
Achieving Energy Efficiency in AI/ML and HPC Hardware: A Case for Hardware/Software Co-Design?
Tovinakere Dwarakanath Vivek & Deeksha C. Goplani - AMD
11 AM to 11.30 AM
Tea Break – Take a breather, sip some chai, and spark meaningful conversations.
11.30 AM to 1.00 PM
Energy Proportional Rapid-On/Off Serial Links for Data Centers
Saurabh Saxena - IIT Madras
1.00 PM to 2.00 PM
Lunch Break – Refuel and recharge while networking with fellow innovators.
2.00 PM to 3.30 PM
Neuromorphic Horizons: Spiking Neural Networks for Ultra-Low-Power AI at the Sensor Edge
Alex P. James - DUK, George Vathakkattil Joseph & Aditya Dalakoti - Innatera Nanosystems, Luke Theogarajan UCSB
3.30 PM to 4.00 PM
Tea Break – Recharge with an evening brew and spark fresh ideas for the final sessions.
4.00 PM to 5.30 PM
Neuromorphic Horizons: Spiking Neural Networks for Ultra-Low-Power AI at the Sensor Edge
Alex P. James - DUK, George Vathakkattil Joseph & Aditya Dalakoti - Innatera Nanosystems, Luke Theogarajan UCSB
Track Chair: Hall 4 Chair
9.30 AM to 11 AM
Post-CMOS Computing Architectures
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan - Penn State, Ahmedullah Aziz UTK & Nikhil Shukla UVA
11 AM to 11.30 AM
Tea Break – Take a breather, sip some chai, and spark meaningful conversations.
11.30 AM to 1.00 PM
CONTINUED : Post-CMOS Computing Architectures
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan - Penn State, Ahmedullah Aziz UTK & Nikhil Shukla UVA
1.00 PM to 2.00 PM
Lunch Break – Refuel and recharge while networking with fellow innovators.
2.00 PM to 3.30 PM
Carbon-conscious AI Acceleration with Silicon Photonics: From Device Modeling to System Simulation
Dharanidhar Dang - UTSA, Ahmedullah Aziz - UTK & Priyabrata Dash - UTSA
3.30 PM to 4.00 PM
Tea Break – Recharge with an evening brew and spark fresh ideas for the final sessions.
4.00 PM to 5.30 PM
Micro-architecture Modeling for Application Specific Neural Network on Digital Semiconductor Device
Amol Bharat Ranadive - Esicompute
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