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Computer Science Colloquium - November 5, 2015 - Korey Sewell

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Computer Science Colloquium The Computer Science Colloquium is a series of weekly public guest lectures on cutting-edge topics related to computer science. Talks by distinguished members of the computer science community are on Thursdays at noon in Salazar Hall, Room 2016. Many students attend the series to gain an understanding of what it means to be a computer scientist and many establish valuable connections through the informal meetings with the speakers. The colloquium may be taken for credit (CS 390, 1 unit) and can be applied toward the computer science major (up to 3 units). Nov 5: Korey Sewell, Qualcomm Enter the Dragon: A Peek Inside of Qualcomm's Snapdragon Memory Controller Team The global proliferation of mobile computing devices has reemphasized computer architectures that integrate a variety of processing cores and memories. Qualcomm's Snapdragon processor, featured in products such as Samsung Galaxy phones and Amazon Kindle tablets, have been at the forefront of the mobile computing movement due to it's ability to successfully tradeoff performance, power, and quality-of-service (QoS) within one chip. A key part of the Snapdragon's integration ability is found in the memory controller where concurrent requests are managed across processing elements like CPUs, GPUs, and modems. This talk will provide an overview of the challenges faced by the Snapdragon memory controller team and discuss how those challenges impact future architectures.