Enter The Dragon: A Peek Inside Of Qualcomm's Snapdragon Memory Controller Team

Korey Sewell, Qualcomm

Stevenson Hall 1300
11:00 AM - 11:50 AM

The global proliferation of mobile computing devices has reemphasized computer architectures that integrate a variety of processing cores and memories. Qualcomm's Snapdragon processor, featured in products such as Samsung Galaxy phones and Amazon Kindle tablets, have been at the forefront of the mobile computing movement due to it's ability to successfully tradeoff performance, power, and quality-of-service (QoS) within one chip. A key part of the Snapdragon's integration ability is found in the memory controller where concurrent requests are managed across processing elements like CPUs, GPUs, and modems. This talk will provide an overview of the challenges faced by the Snapdragon memory controller team and discuss how those challenges impact future architectures.