DATE is pleased to present a special hybrid format for its 2022 event, as the situation related to COVID-19 is improving but safety measures and restrictions will remain uncertain for the upcoming months across Europe and worldwide. In transition towards a future post-pandemic event again, DATE 2022 will host a two-day live event in presence in the city of Antwerp (just north of Brussels in Belgium), to bring the community together again, followed by other activities carried out entirely online in the subsequent days. This setup combines the in-presence experience with the opportunities of on-line activities, fostering the networking and social interactions around an interesting program of selected talks and panels on emerging topics to complement the traditional DATE high-quality scientific, technical and educational activities.

ET3.8.2 AI from Edge to Cloud: Leveraging RISC-V with DSP, Vector and Custom Instructions

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Charlie Su, Andes Technology Corporation, Taiwan
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Florian Wohlrab, Andes Technology Corporation, Taiwan

In this talk, Andes Technology will present RISC-V processors for applications ranging from very compact, low power cores used in Sensors to mid-ranged cores in running protocol stacks and doing high-speed control, and number-crunching cores to process high-volume data in parallel. Those highly-configurable AndesCores™ with extensibility and modularity inherited from RISC-V allow designers to use one ISA for all of the workloads. They are also adopted by AI SoC’s with applications from edge to cloud. We will provide an overview of the RISC-V DSP extension for low-data volume workloads like Keyword Spotting and Face detection with low power. For higher data throughput applications, we will introduce the industry-first commercial RISC-V Vector Processor solution and how it can be used to speed up compute-intensive applications. Last but not least, one of RISC-V’s strength is to allow well-defined custom instruction extensions to fulfill Domain Specific Acceleration (DSA) without breaking ISA compatibility. In the end, we will also cover Andes Custom Extensions™, an automation framework to bring DSA capability to the hands of every designer instead of limiting it to just CPU experts.