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Drew Barbier of MIPS says his background is in CPUs and that he has worked on them for a long time.
“I'm a hardware guy, my my background is is CPUs, been in CPUs for a long time.”
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Drew Barbier says MIPS often analyzes workloads before beginning to write any RTL, the hardware description code for a chip.
“a lot of times this is before we even begin designing or writing any RTL at all.”
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Drew Barbier says the M8500 is about 20% better in raw instructions per cycle, but 3 to 5 times better on a motor control customer's own workload.
“not only are we gonna be, you know, 20% better in terms of raw IPC, but on your workload that you care about, it's actually 3 to 5X better, right?”
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Drew Barbier says the M8500 combines the functions of a microcontroller and an accelerator, so customers need only one block.
“customers aren't having to put down a microcontroller and an accelerator. All of a sudden, those functions, both of those functions, get consumed by by the M8500.”
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Drew Barbier says consolidating functions on the M8500 reduces data movement and lowers power consumption.
“the amount of data movement across the MCU is much less because everything's done on the M8500. And that leads to better power conversations, lower power consumption”
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Drew Barbier says there is not yet much customer silicon using the M8500, so results are measured mainly by customer adoption and it is early days.
“there's not a lot of customer silicon that's out there that we can talk to in in terms of the M8500.”
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Drew Barbier says MIPS is famous for multi-threading.
“So MIPS is famous for for multi-threading.”
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Drew Barbier says MIPS has traditionally used multi-threading and has had success in networking and data movement applications.
“MIPS has traditionally been multi-threaded and has a lot of success in networking and and data movement applications and things like that.”
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Drew Barbier says MIPS offers workload analysis tooling both internally and to its customers.
“we have a lot of tooling and capabilities both inside of MIPS as well as that we make available to to customers”
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Drew Barbier says mistakes in these systems are expensive for everyone involved when a promised system performance is not delivered.
“it's expensive to to make mistakes here, right? Um, if you, uh, don't deliver on what you're promising on a system, I, it's very expensive for for everybody involved.”
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