Ep 15: The Hardware Startup Experience from Business Case to Software with Dr. Karu Sankaralingam, University of Wisconsin-Madison/Nvidia

Dr. Karu Sankaralingam is a Professor at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison, an entrepeneur, inventor, as well as a
Principal Research Scientist at NVIDIA.  His work has been
featured in industry forums of Mentor and Synopsys, and has been
covered by the New York Times, Wired, and IEEE Spectrum. He
founded the hardware startup SimpleMachines in 2017 which
developed chip designs applying dataflow computing to push the
limits of AI generality in hardware and built the Mozart chip. In
his career, he has led three chip projects: Mozart (16nm, HBM2
based design), MIAOW open source GPU on FPGA, and the TRIPS chip
as a student during his PhD. In his research he has pioneered the
principles of dataflow computing, focusing on the role of
architecture, microarchitecture and the compiler. He has
published over 100 research papers, has graduated 9 PhD students,
is an inventor on 21 patents, and 9 award papers. He is a Fellow
of IEEE.