Modular Design of level -2 cache for flexible IP configuration

Thang Tran,Principal Engineer,Synopsys Inc.,USA

Biography :

Thang Tran is a principal engineer at Synopsys. He received his MBA from St. Edwards University in 1985 and Ph.D. in Computer and Electrical Engineering from University of Texas at Austin in 1992. He is specialized in microprocessor architecture and design and has over 35 years of experiences at Motorola, AMD, Intel, ADI, Centaur Technologies, TI, MediaTek, Freescale Semiconductor, and Synopsys. His notable microprocessors are AMD Athlon, ARM Cortex-A8, and ARC HS. He has designed microprocessors with different types of instruction sets: ARC, ARM, PowerPC, x86, MIPS and ADI-DSP. He also teaches MIPS microprocessor design at Viet Nam National University in Ho Chi Minh City and Computer Architecture at Santa Clara University in California (adjunct professor). Thang has 150+ granted patents and many more pending patent applications. On personal note, Thang is operational director of Hope for Viet Orphans, hope4vietorphans.org, and member of board-of-director of VNHelp, vnhelp.org.