Talk on "Optical signaling for backplanes in network racks"
Speaker: Shri Krishnan Rengarajan from Cypress Semiconductors.
Title: Optical signaling for backplanes in network racks.
Abstract: Optical signaling has become ubiquitous today and has become the backbone of communication. The merits of high bandwidth and low loss over long distances has made optics the choice for long distance signaling. Optics has now made its advent for rack to rack and even intra rack connectivity in Datacenters, which are the hub of network activity consisting of 10s of 1000s of compute nodes. However, there is still throughput bottleneck encountered due to speed limitation of electrical signaling in the backplanes of network racks. This talk will discuss the possibities to bring optics to shorter distance contexts.
Speaker Bio: Krishnan Rengarajan is an Analog Mixed Signal Circuit Design Engineer with experience
spanning several areas including High Speed Serial Links, Discrete volatile and non-volatile memories, Compiler SRAMs/CAMs for ASICs, DRAM chips, OTP/MTP/eFuse memories, 622Mbps Clock recovery IP, and Clock generation chips,Designs using FPGAs for HDTV system, MCMs for printer control and System design for printers. Prior jobs at IBM, Edison (Elpida India design center), Texas Instruments, Cypress, IITM, DCM Microelectronics – Built teams and delivered on several products/IP through production. Held Project and Technical Lead positions as well as Senior Management responsibilities in a career span of 28 years. He has 26 granted and 5 pending patents, 6 patent IP publications, 22 company internal and external conference presentations/publications. He has held senior technical positions at various companies including MGTS at TI, Director at Edison, STSM at IBM, DMTS at GF. Recently he joined Cypress as Sr.MTS. He is an IEEE Senior Member. His research areas include Low Power High Performance Circuits, Accurate AMS modeling methodology, Short reach Optical signal processing. He got his Bachelors in Electrical & Electronics in 1989 and Masters in Microelectronics,1991, both from BITS Pilani,India.
Event Date: 8th February, 2019(Friday)
Event Time: 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Venue: Room No. 119
IIT Dharwad, Karnataka