Abstract

We would introduce what we do in the IC design house, including flow, jobs and roles. Then we would introduce the Audio design, this is a classical IC design topic. We introduce it to help you know more about the situation of a SW engineer. The audio design includes Memory, FIFO, Clock, Sync or As-sync design, DSP, mailbox, interrupt, and so on. As the SW/FW/DV/Algorithm engineer, we need to design the SW architecture according to the IC design. We would discuss what issues we may meet, and how to overcome. Especially, we would share the experience about the Audio performance issue. Then we would discuss developing AI audio in SoC, how we do and what we need to take care.

Bio.

Daniel Liu received a Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan. With a career spanning over a decade, he has contributed significantly to the technological landscape through his roles at MediaTek from 2007 to 2009, followed by his tenure at Novatek from 2009 till the present. The following list is the projects that the speaker has participated in:

2018        Project: TV SoC 8K    Milestone: First 8K SoC

2019        Project: FRC 8K, CES show  Milestone: First 8K PQ ASIC

2020        Project: Mainstream 4K SoC  Milestone: MP in 3 months

2021        Project: Ultra-low-cost SoC    Milestone: 40% cost down

2022        Project: Audio leader, AI Audio     Milestone: Over 10 features done

2023        Project: New generation 4K SoC  Milestone: Finish verify in one month

All faculty and students are welcome to join.