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• Arm Technical Symposia• 2018

BeyondHardware IP

An overview of Arm development solutions

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IC design complexity and cost aren’t slowing down

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Explosion in code size across the board

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Arm and partners enable an awesome ecosystem

Applications

Middleware

Driver & OS

Security

Tools

Models

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RTOS

Middleware codecs

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Debug & Trace

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RTOS

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World #1 embedded ecosystem


Open source compilers: It takes an ecosystem

GNU toolchain LLVM

Arm

Ecosystem

• Top 3 contributor mid/backend1

• Focus on architecture support• Optimization for enterprise workloads• ARM GNU Embedded/Linux

• 2,100+ commits2

• Focus on architecture support• Across embedded, mobile and HPC• Commercial ARM Compiler

• 3rd party micro-architecture• Tools and libraries maintenance and

optimization

• 3rd party micro-architecture• Collaboration on particular

architecture features

1 Between GCC 4.9 and 7.1. 2 From 2013 to Jul-2017 in LLVM and Clang

developer.arm.com/open-source/gnu-toolchain


Continuous investment in engineering efficiencyArm’s development solutions history pre-dates Arm foundation

1987Launches

Arm Compiler

2008Launches

CMSIS

2015Acquires

Carbon Design Systems

2016Acquires

Allinea

2001Acquires

Noral

2005Acquires

Keil

1990Arm is born from Acorn

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Arm Development Solutions: focus areas

Servers

SoC Design Embedded & Safety Ready

Mobile & Graphics Servers & HPC


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Arm Development Solutions: SoC Design

Servers




• Run your code on a cycle accurate virtual prototype of your SoC, and ensure you get it right first time

• Extensive library of cycle-accurate models

• Deep visibility into your system

• Easy to learn, fast to modify

• Integration in SystemC/EDA environments

• Auto-generate cycle accurate models from custom RTL

SoC Design

IP evaluation

Architecture exploration

Design & Prototyping

Production


• Avoid mistakes in the configuration of Arm processor, system and debug IP, and shorten your SoC schedule

• Easy to use, menu driven setup of complex interconnect IP

• Automatic generation of CoreLink interconnect and CoreSight debug subsystems

• Fast and convenient graphical stitching of AMBA interfaces

SoC Design

IP evaluation



Production


• Accelerate go-to-market by developing software on a virtual prototype

• Extensive library of functionally-accurate models

• Deep visibility into your system

• Functional accuracy: validated against RTL

• 10-100x faster than emulators

• Integration in SystemC/EDA environments

SoC Design

IP evaluation



Production


SoC Design

IP evaluation



Production

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DesignStart: Fast access to Arm IP and ecosystem

• Cortex-M0 and Cortex-M3 CPUs

• 1,000s of physical IP libraries

• License for $0 upfront, only success-based royalties

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Arm Development Solutions: Embedded & Safety Ready

Servers




One tool suite. All compute requirements. All design stages.

featuring Keil MDK

Software Architecture DevelopmentIntegration and testing

Deployment and

maintenance

SoC Design

IP evaluation



Production



Most complete architectural

support

5000+ CMSIS devices

supported

Up to 30% faster code*

Streamlined workflow

* Based on CoreMark score comparing Arm Compiler 6.11 to 6.6 on Cortex-M33


Safety Ready software stack and tools

Arm Cortex-M processor

User Application code

FuSa RTX RTOS

FuSa C library

Software test library (STL)

Self-test code for run-time verification

FuSaEvent

Recorder

FuSa CMSIS-Core(Arm-Core specific)

CMSIS-Core(device-specific)

Ready-to-use software framework for embedded applications

RTOS SchedulerTime

Thread

Events Mutex

Semaphore

Memory

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Developer focus on added-value


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Arm Development Solutions: Mobile & Graphics

Servers




Graphics performance analysis and debug

AnalyzeDS-5 Streamline

• Profile CPUs and Mali GPUs

• Timeline

• HW Counters

• OpenCL visualizer

DebugMali Graphics Debugger

• API Trace & Debug

• Vulkan, OpenGL ES, OpenCL

• Debug and improve performance at frame level

OptimizeMali Offline Compiler

• Analyze shader performance

• Command line tool

• Number of cycles

• Registers utilization


Example Streamline comparisonsML workloads on CPU vs GPU

CPU GPU


Arm Development Solutions: Servers & HPC

Servers




Debug and performance analysis on very large systems

• The Arm DDT debugger and MAP performance analyser are designed specifically for HPC systems with tensof thousands of nodes. They focus on common issues in HPC

• Variable comparisons across threads

• Identification of over-subscribed cores and sleeping threads

• Synchronization, communication and workload imbalance for MPI and I/O


Arm Performance Libraries for HPC applications

• Optimized BLAS, LAPACK and FFT routines to boost the performance of typical HPC scientific applications

• Validated with NAG’s test suite, a de-facto standard

• Maintained and supported by Arm for a wide range of 64-bit Armv8-A based platforms

• Tuned for Armv8-A partner cores like Cavium in collaboration with Silicon Partners

DGEMM performance compared to OpenBLAS


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Three things to remember from this talk

Software development complexity and cost continues to grow Arm provides wide

range of products and services to boost

engineering efficiency

It takes an ecosystem

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