Chip Design Methodology
Track Overview
Modern chip design has moved beyond silicon. Demands for increasingly complex multicore, secure, and low-power and systems are increasing while designers are leveraging new processor and offload schemes to deliver efficient, targeted solutions.
Track Highlights
At Arm DevSummit you’ll get deep insight into design approaches, tools and enabling software that development teams need to build, deploy and manage the world’s best performing semiconductors and systems.

Keynote Presentation from Arm Executives Rene Haas and Richard Grisenthwaite on What’s Ahead for Developers

Technical Sessions on developing your own co-processors, SoCs and ASICs containing multiple CPUs

Panel Discussions on 3D-IC technology, platform security and cloud-based design and verification
Hear from Top Technologists on Chip Design and IP
What’s ahead for developers and chip designers regardless of focus and application? See a preview of Arm’s plans for ushering in a new era of solutions-based computing to meet the requirements of our data-driven world.
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Since joining Arm as one of its first employees, Simon has driven technical and business innovations to help transform the company into the leading architect of the most pervasive compute technology the world has ever seen.
Simon led the development of early ground-breaking Arm processors – the Arm7 and Arm9 – powering the world’s first digital mobile phones. He played a key role in developing industry standards, and his engineering work led to him being granted several embedded-systems patents. He became vice president of engineering in 2001, and before being named as Arm CEO in July 2013, he held several other strategy positions including global head of sales. He was personally responsible for expanding the company’s U.S. business and strengthening its leadership and relationships in California’s Silicon Valley, where he still lives with his family.
Simon helped steer the company through the 2016 acquisition by SoftBank, and, in June 2017, was elected to serve on the SoftBank board. He also sits on the boards of the Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA), the Electronic System Design Alliance (ESD Alliance), TechWorks and is a non-executive director at Dolby Laboratories, Inc.
Simon earned his BEng in electronic engineering from the University of Sussex and an MSc in computer science from the University of Manchester. In recognition of his extraordinary lifetime accomplishments and his impact to the global tech industry, Simon was conferred an Honorary Doctor of Science from the University of Sussex.
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Rene Haas is the president of Arm’s IP Products Group (IPG) and a member of the Arm Executive Committee. Rene took over management of IPG in January 2017 and is responsible for all IPG activities including product development, engineering, sales, marketing, and commercial operations.
Rene was previously Arm’s chief commercial officer in charge of global sales and marketing, a position he held since Oct. 2015. Prior to that he served as the vice president of strategic alliances.
Before joining Arm, Rene held several applications management, applications engineering and product engineering roles, including seven years at NVIDIA as vice president and general manager of its computing products business.
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Richard Grisenthwaite is senior vice president, chief architect and fellow at Arm, where he has been working for the past 21 years. He is responsible for the long-term evolution of the Arm architecture and has led the architecture since the introduction of Armv6 in 2001.
In his early days at Arm, Richard worked on Arm720T, Arm940T and Arm1136EJF-S. Prior to Arm, Richard worked for Analog Devices on fixed function DSP, and at Inmos/ST on the Transputer. Richard has a BA from the University of Cambridge and holds 86 patents in the field of microprocessors.
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Engineering Accreditation
Workshops Plus
$79 each
Workshop Plus sessions provide hands-on experience in areas such as implementing machine learning, protecting against security vulnerabilities and deploying IoT devices. Several of these sessions include development kits. Each Workshop Plus session is an add-on to registration, $79 each.
Additional technical workshops are available within the full conference agenda at no charge.

IEEE Certification
$25
Boost your expertise and career with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineer (IEEE) Certification. Whether you’re looking to maintain your license or enhance your resume, you can accrue IEEE professional development hours (PDHs) and continuing education units (CEUs) throughout the seven-track program. This valuable accreditation is an add-on available for an additional $25.