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Why Attend?
The slow-down of Moore’s law and Dennard scaling triggered an increased awareness for application-specific instruction-set processors (ASIPs). These processors implement a specialized instruction-set architecture (ISA) tailored to the application domain, often starting from a baseline such as the RISC-V ISA. ASIPs can replace traditional fixed-function hardware accelerators, thereby introducing software-programmability in the acceleration domain, and thus more flexibility and agility in both the design process and the eventual product. By maintaining a RISC-V ISA baseline, compatibility with and reuse of existing processor ecosystem elements is facilitated.
Synopsys ASIP Designer™ is the industry-leading tool to design, implement, program and verify application-specific instruction-set processors. Starting from a single processor specification, designers immediately obtain an optimizing C/C++ compiler, cycle-accurate simulator and synthesizable hardware implementation of the ASIP. Using a unique compiler-in-the-loop™ and synthesis-in-the-loop™ methodology, the ISA and microarchitecture can be tuned quickly to the application domain.
Please join us in the free-of-charge ASIP Designer Workshop on Monday, February 6, 2023. In this informal forum you will be able to exchange ideas, build up networks and gain first-hand insight about ASIP Designer directly from your peers.
This workshop will provide participants with more in-depth information, demonstrating the ASIP design methodology based on the ASIP Designer tools. Starting from an initial RISC-V architecture, we will demonstrate how to come to an application specific architecture, featuring instruction level and data level parallelism.
Objectives:
• Introduction to the ASIP Designer tool
• Learn about the steps to get to both the synthesizable RTL as well as a software development kit (SDK) including a C-compiler
• Learn about the wide range of architectural choices when designing a processor, enabling the design of a specialized controllers, DSPs, and programmable data paths
• Discuss architectural exploration capabilities of the ASIP Designer tools
• Discuss the ASIP implementation (RTL) and verification flow
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Meet The Speakers
Patrick Verbist
Patrick Verbist is the Product Marketing Manager for Synopsys ASIP Designer tools. Previously he was Business Development Manager and Field Application Engineer for the ASIP Designer tools. Prior to the acquisition by Synopsys in 2014, Director of Sales at Target Compiler Technologies.
Before Target, Patrick worked for 12 years as Business Development Manager for imec in Belgium and San Jose (US). He holds a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from KU Leuven, Belgium.
Steven Van Rompaey
Steven Van Rompaey is Corporate Application Engineer for ASIP design tools at Synopsys. From 1999 to 2014 he worked at Target Compiler Technologies, a pioneering company for ASIP design tools, where he initially was responsible for one of the back-end stages in Target's retargetable C compiler. Later on he shifted focus to supporting customer projects and became involved in numerous customer ASIP designs.
Steven started his carrier as a Hardware Design Engineer for digital television at Philips. He holds a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from K.U. Leuven, Belgium.
Agenda
ASIP Designer introduction
Modelling of a RISC-V Processor in ASIP Designer
Adding Specialized instructions, Vector Instructions, and Instruction Level Parallelism to the RISC-V processor
Software development on the specialized RISC-V processor
ASIP RTL Generation and Verification
Explore other ASIP design examples (if time permits)