November 15
Start SLC 2024 off right — join fellow attendees for our Friday night workshops! A few conference partners, including Keysight, TestEquity, Analog Devices and Texas Instruments will be hosting hands-on interactive workshops. Space is limited. Sign-up is required. You will receive a link to sign up for workshops. Learn more below.
As academic, research, and industry explore different computer architectures, such as Neural Processing Units (NPUs), we will describe the AMD Ryzen AI platform and AMD’s NPU. We present Riallto, an open-source exploration framework for first time users of the NPU developed by teams from the AMD Research and Advanced Development group and the AMD University Program. AMD Ryzen AI is the world’s first built-in AI engine on select x86 computers. This dedicated engine is built on the AMD XDNA spatial dataflow NPU architecture consisting of a tiled array of AI Engine processors and is designed to offer lower latency and better energy efficiency. Such processor arrays are also found in the Versal Adaptive SoC enabling rapid development and evaluation across heterogenous architectures. This integration optimizes efficiency by offloading specific AI processing tasks such as background blur, facial detection, and eye gaze correction, freeing up CPU and GPU cycles and enhancing system efficiency. With Ryzen AI-powered laptops or miniPCs, you can develop innovative applications and productivity solutions like Information search, summarization, transcription and so much more. Riallto lowers the barrier of entry and access to the AMD’s AI Engines (AIE) and includes a wealth of education material via Juypter Notebooks that makes understanding and using ML accelerators in an ever-increasing heterogenous environment. We are excited to share details of the hardware and software architecture with the community and see how the technology can be leveraged by their work.
- 3:00 P.M. – 4:00 P.M. EST in Carolina
Join Keysight and TestEquity for this interactive, hands-on activity. Using Keysight RF Spectrum Analyzers to locate radio transmitting “foxes” around the conference center. Using a map of the course and a homemade receiver, participants set out to find the transmitters, which operate in the amateur radio bands (primarily the 3.5 MHz and 144 MHz bands). The first person to find all transmitters wins the competition!
- 3:00 P.M. – 4:30 P.M. Session #1 in Fairway
- 4:30 P.M. – 6:00 P.M. Session #2 in Fairway
- Each session will have a maximum attendance of 32 people (8 teams of 4)
WORKSHOP FULL
Attendees will gain useful applications engineering insight into optimizing the transient response and stability of switched-mode power converter circuits. The workshop will take linear systems course concepts and apply a “hands on” approach to this analytical topic using software tools and working hardware. The goal is to enable participants to develop an intuitive grasp of time domain and frequency domain for bench validation of circuit response and stability measurements. Limited to 30
- 4:00 P.M. – 6:00 P.M. EST in Carolina
Hands-on workshop that covers Bluetooth LE and the LAUNCHXL-CC26X2R1 development board. The workshop will cover the out-of-box experience as well as the basics of Bluetooth LE and will guide the audience into how to create a basic Bluetooth LE application.The following software should be pre-installed by attendees in their computers before the workshop:
Personal PC or Mac required to participate
Code Composer Studio: https://www.ti.com/tool/download/CCSTUDIO
SIMPLELINK-LOWPOWER-F2-SDK: https://www.ti.com/tool/download/SIMPLELINK-LOWPOWER-F2-SDK
- 3:00 P.M. – 5:00 P.M. EST in Kannapolis
Learn strategies on how to prepare for and deliver STEM outreach activities that will elevate your Chapter’s service activities. You will learn methods on how to engage children, have them work in teams, and tap into existing resources by experiencing one of TryE’s lessons, “Ship the Chip” for yourself. You will come away with a proven engineering activity that you can implement in your local community.
- 4:00 P.M. – 5:00 P.M. EST in Kannapolis
