Norbert Wehn

University of Kaiserslautern, Germany

Open-Source in Hardware Design – Opportunities, Challenges and Example

Abstract

Open-Source is currently garnering significant attention within the hardware community and is often controversially discussed. In this talk, we will discuss opportunities and challenges of open-source design flows and will showcase the evolution of our open-source DRAM modeling framework DRAMSys and DRAMPower, highlighting its development and impact.

Biography

Norbert holds the chair for Microelectronic System Design in the department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at the University of Kaiserslautern-Landau. He has more than 500 publications in various fields of microelectronic system design and holds several patents. His special research interests are VLSI-architectures for mobile communication, low-power techniques, advanced SoC architectures, memory architectures, controller and interfaces, postquantum cryptography, reliability machine learning, IoT and smart learning environments.