Undated
MIPS uses the term physical AI for AI that moves out of the data center to the broader edge.
“At at MIPS, we we call this physical AI, so as as AI sort of leaves the data center and and moves to the the broader edge.”
Topic
MIPS
15 facts from 1 episode, in date order. These are what speakers said on the shows, each linked to the moment it was said. They aren't independently verified.
Undated
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.”
Undated
MIPS has a tool called Atlas Explorer that gives detailed performance insights on large workloads and data sets.
“We have tools like Atlas Explorer that enable us to glean very detailed performance insights on larger workloads, larger data sets.”
Undated
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.”
Undated
The MIPS M8500 is a high-performance 32-bit microcontroller IP specialized for motor control applications.
“So we have a product called the M8500. It's a high performance 32-bit microcontroller IP that is specialized for motor control applications.”
Undated
The M8500 core includes real-time multi-threading, which MIPS says significantly lowers context-switching latency.
“this core has something that we call real-time multi-threading, which helps lower latency for context switching quite significantly.”
Undated
MIPS added dedicated ports to the M8500 to move data into and out of the core as fast as possible.
“we added specific ports to to move data into the core and out of the core as fast as possible”
Undated
MIPS added compute units for trigonometric functions to the M8500 because motor control loops rely on them.
“specifically, uh, trigonometric functions, and from there, we we were able to to add those to those type of compute units to the core.”
Undated
MIPS reports that the M8500 delivers 3 to 5 times uplift on some field-oriented control algorithms.
“in the case of M8500, we see uplifts from from 3 to 5X on some of these field-oriented control algorithms.”
Undated
MIPS says it is a big supporter of and contributor to the RISC-V open standard.
“We we're big supporters of of RISC-V, big contributors to RISC-V.”
Undated
Drew Barbier says RISC-V provides a foundation and ecosystem while letting MIPS add specialized functions on top.
“RISC-V is great because it gives us that foundation, that ecosystem to to start from, but still enables us to go implement more specialized functions on top of that”
Undated
Drew Barbier says MIPS is famous for multi-threading.
“So MIPS is famous for for multi-threading.”
Undated
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.”
Undated
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”
Undated
Drew Barbier says MIPS uses Atlas Explorer, virtual platforms and digital twins to engage customers earlier in the process.
“tools that we have, like Atlas Explorer and a lot of these virtual platform, um, tools, digital twins, those kinds of things”
Episodes