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Speaker:

Fumio Arakawa, Nagoya University, Japan

Title:

Open ISA Core: More Freedom for Processor Architect

Abstract:

As you know, old ISA processors are still dominant in the market. However, the ISA must be changed for new applications such as AI and IoT to make processors much more efficient to achieve high performance. Therefore, we must find a way to realize new ISA processor. Processor architects must have more freedom. A new ISA processor can be a special purpose processor (SPP) easier than ever combined with an open ISA general purpose processor (GPP). In open innovation and multi-many-core era, open-established-ISA simple cores are the best for the GPP, and new-ISA simple cores are the best for SPP. J-core (SuperH) is the former, and NanoProcessor Cluster is the latter and can be an SPP to offload GPP jobs unfit to it.

Bio:

Fumio Arakawa is a designated professor of Graduate School of Information Science at Nagoya University. His research interests include architecture and micro-architecture of low-power and high-performance processors. He has founded a R&D and consulting company, Famer Systems, Inc. to contribute on industries with his R&D experience. Arakawa has a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Tokyo. He is a program committee co-chair of the Cool Chips conference series, and the chairman of Microprocessor Technical Committee of Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association (JEITA). He is a member of IEEE and IEICE.



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