Machine Learning for Selected

SI & PI Problems

Timothy Michalka

Sr. Director, EngineeringQualcomm Technologies, Inc.

18-Oct-2017

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Outline

• ML @ Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

• SI & PI project interests

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ML @ Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

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Our AI leadership

A decade of consistent AI research and investment

Completed Brain

Corp joint

research

Research in

spiking neural

networks

Investment and

collaboration

with Brain Corp

Opened joint

research lab with

University of

Amsterdam

Acquired Euvision Announced

Qualcomm®

Snapdragon™ Neural

Processing Engine

SDK

Acquire Scyfer

201720152013 20142009 2012 20162007

Qualcomm

Research initiates

first AI project

Research artificial

neural processing

architectures

Deep-learning-based

AlexNet wins ImageNet

competition

Research face

detection with

deep learning

Opened Qualcomm

Research

Netherlands

MWC demo

showcasing photo

sorting and hand

writing recognition

Top-3 performer in

the 2015 ImageNet

challenges

Announced

Facebook Caffe2

support

Collaboration

with Google on

TensorFlow

acceleration

Brain Corp raises

$114M

Qualcomm Snapdragon is a product of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. Qualcomm Research is a division of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

From: Qualcomm AI Vision

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Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. is

advancing robotics

Optimized heterogeneous computing platformEnabling compute-intensive functionalities within weight, power and thermal limitations

High-fidelity sensor processing

Hard real-time Control

Navigation

Machine learning

Computer vision

From: Shaping the future of drones and robotics

Bringing together essential innovations on a highly optimized

heterogeneous compute platform

Qualcomm Snapdragon is a product of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. Qualcomm Research is a division of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

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Developing cognitive technologies

on the device

From: Bringing Cognitive Technologies to Life

Qualcomm Snapdragon is a product of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. Qualcomm Research is a division of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Machine learning

Computer vision

Always-on sensing

Intuitive security

Immersivemultimedia

Intelligentconnectivity

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SI & PI Project Interests

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IO PDN Sensitivity

• On-going CAEML project work– “Apply to HSSCDR (IBM)”

• Extend to non-linear single-ended drivers

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LPDDR Simulation Time

Sim

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n T

ime

IC Node & Standard over Time

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LPDDR Simulation Efficiency

• Need hours not days

• Reduced memory requirements

• Full IP protection

• Voltage, Current, and Timing accurate– Delay & “overclocking”

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Exploratory PMIC Models

• On-going CAEML project

• Fast simulation across SPICE platforms

• Capture non-linear effects in transient simulations

• Explore design space

• Full IP protection

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“Local EMI” - Problem

SoC

PMICRF

Broadband (time domain) noise sources near sensitive receivers

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Qualcomm Snapdragon is a product of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. Qualcomm Research is a division of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

“Local EMI” – Solution?

• Crossover to ongoing CAEML project

• What level of “component” model is sufficient?

• What “signal” is meaningful?

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Thank you

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business units within the Qualcomm corporate structure, as applicable. Qualcomm Incorporated includes Qualcomm’s licensing business, QTL,

and the vast majority of its patent portfolio. Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated, operates,

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and services businesses, including its semiconductor business, QCT.

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