Monday October 6 4:00 - 4:50 PM Kelley 1001
Gary Delp Distinguished Engineer & Director of the LSI University Research Program Rochester, MN When engineering and business collide; the art and science of making good standards. Using illustrations from Communications and Electronic Design Automation standards: ATM, Fibre Channel, Low Power design intent, and the XML based description of blocks of IP called IP-XACT, the speaker will share experiences in standards setting organizations (SSOs) A strong engineering background is critical, but so is a spirit of compromise, and a clear understanding of your business care-abouts, and flexibilities. Using your analytic problem solving techniques in a diverse group to drive closure and success is a task with a variety of successful, and dramatically unsuccessful, techniques. Some you will discover on your own, some you will hear in this talk, and later remember, either congratulating yourself on success, or taking comfort in the company of mortals. Setting your foundations in an endeavor is always a help. In a good SSO, you will first, settle on the process, then on the problem, then on the scope, then on the success criteria, then on the kernel of the solution, then on how to sell it; internally, in the standards body, and in the world. After all that, the extraction of a useful standard is like playing a piano after first building it. A reward for the hard worker. Preparing yourself for success in a SSO will also prepare you for success in the rest of your fields of endeavor. Biography Dr. Gary Delp, a Distinguished Engineer with the LSI office of the CTO, spends his time working on design and IP reuse, inside of a design, across designs, and across the economic eco-system. Some of this reuse is in the form of bundles and IP functions, some is in the form of formats, methodologies, and exploratory work. Standards Setting bodies, Industry Alliances and University research programs support this work of technology transfer. He is the Technical Director of The SPIRIT Consortium, and the CTO of the VSI Alliance. He is also the vice-chair of the IEEE study group on common power formats. LSI has a keen interest in power reduction in service of the needs of their customers in the storage and consumer industries. His work has always been in the area of system optimization, but the systems have varied. As a VLSI Designer at the IBM AS/400 Division, he led teams in the optimization of hardware/software tradeoffs for network interconnect and the provision of network services. He holds patents in scheduling and shaping algorithms, circuit design, chip product structures, and video editing among others. He works collaboratively; all of his patent work is joint with others. At the University of Delaware, his PhD. Dissertation was MemNet: a distributed shared memory network implementation and architecture. IBM Watson work included FDDI and ATM operating system/hardware interfaces. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theatre from Oberlin College and a Master of Fine Arts in Technical Theatre from the University of Memphis, Tennessee. Delp received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Delaware and has taught in several institutions of higher education including Rhode Island College, Memphis State University, and the University of Delaware. Once, as technical director, he led a team in building 2 mountains for an outdoor historical drama in Chillicothe, Ohio.
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