Stanford Engineering
AHA Agile Hardware Project

AHA Retreat - August 2022

Dates and Venue:

August 24 - 25, 2022
Oceano Half Moon Bay Harbor [directions]
The Gate House (independent building next to the main hotel)
**Stanford strongly recommends masking indoors and in crowded outdoor settings.

Agenda:

Wednesday, August 24

*Meeting location: The Gate House (independent building next to the main hotel)

3:00- Hotel check-in starts  
4:00-4:15 Welcome Mark Horowitz
4:15-4:30
AHA Research Overview (1.29 MB)



[video]		 Priyanka Raina
4:30-5:30
AHA Lightning Talks (5.64 MB)



[video]		 All Students
5:30-6:30 Poster Session (outdoor) -- See poster titles All Students
6:30-8:00 Dinner (outdoor) All
8:00-9:00 Walk to the beach All

Thursday, August 25

*Meeting location: The Gate House (independent building next to the main hotel)

8:00- Breakfast  
9:00-9:10
Day 2 Introduction (51.28 KB)



[video]		 Priyanka Raina
Domain-Specialized Hardware Accelerators
9:10-9:35
Amber: Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Array-Based SoC for Dense Linear Algebra Acceleration (4.92 MB)



[video]		 Alex Carsello
9:35-9:50
Amber Demo (17.91 MB)



[video]		 Kathleen Feng
9:50-10:15
Onyx: A 12nm SoC with a Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Array Accelerating Dense and Sparse Applications (6.03 MB)



[video]		 Kalhan Koul
10:15-10:35 Break and hotel check-out (by 11am)  
Compilers and Hardware Design Tools
10:35-11:00
The Sparse Abstract Machine (2.11 MB)



[video]		 Olivia Hsu
11:00-11:15 Bringing Software-Style Linking and Interoperability to Hardware Development Ross Daly
11:15-11:30
Bringing Source-Level Debugging Frameworks to Hardware Generators (1.48 MB)



[video]		 Keyi Zhang
11:30-11:45
Breaking Down Physical Design Barriers with Open and Agile Flow Tools (A Perspective from DAC'22) (1.56 MB)



[video]		 Christopher Torng
11:45-12:00
Software Systems for Mixed-Signal Hardware (3.04 MB)



[video]		 Sara Achour
12:00-1:30 Lunch (outdoor)  
Chiplet Ecosystem for Agile System Design
1:30-2:00 Keynote 1
The Package is the System		 Bryan Black
CEO, Chipletz
2:00-2:45 Chiplet Panel Discussion
   Rick Bahr, Stanford (moderator) - slides / video
   Bob Brennan, Intel  - slides / video
   Bill Dally, NVIDIA/Stanford  - slides / video
   Liam Madden, Stanford  - slides / video
   Ming Zhang, Synopsys - slides / video
   Bryan Black, Chipletz 		  
2:45-3:15 Break  
Future of AI Applications
3:15-3:45 Keynote 2
A Kaleidoscope of Butterflies: Structured, Hardware-Friendly Sparsity in High-Throughput ML Training
[video]

 
Hardware-aware Sparsity for Efficient and Accurate Training (5.24 MB)



[video]		 Christopher Ré
Associate Professor, Computer Science, Stanford


Tri Dao
3:45-4:00
The Future of Sparsity in Deep Neural Networks (2.5 MB)



[video]		 Trevor Gale
4:00-4:15 System Design for AR/VR Ron Ho, Meta
4:15-4:45 Closing Thoughts & Wrap-up Discussion