Software Engineers Are Tomorrow's Processor Engineers
summary
RISC‑V plus Codasip tooling lets software engineers specify custom instructions using C‑like headers and codal files that generate opcodes and libraries, so algorithms drive microarchitectural changes rather than hand‑coding decodes or pipelines. A 40 nm audio anomaly project constrained to <40 MHz and initially >80M cycles uses custom DSP and AI MACs to squeeze complex FFT and quantized 8‑bit matrix multiplies into tight loops, yielding bounded customization, 10x DSP speedup, 4x application speedup, and 6x power reduction with a core comparable to an M0+ and NN throughput exceeding an M7.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction to talk
- 1:50Good software practices
- 4:39Defines macros and abstractions
- 8:13Who develops algorithms
- 9:20AI anomaly detection project
- 11:30Software libraries for acceleration
- 13:59Software engineers as processor engineers
- 16:25Summary and conclusion
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