Promote The Rapid Improvement Of RISC-V CPU Performance And Open Up More High-Value Markets Upwards

On August 21-23, the RISC-V China Summit was held in Hangzhou Huanglong Hotel in 2024.As the launch of multiple modelsImagination catapult seriesThe provider of RISC-V CPU semiconductor intellectual property (IP), as well as the world's leading GPU and AI accelerator IP manufacturer, Imagination Technology, actively participated in one of the highest, scale and influence of mainland China, and at the conferenceIt showed its RISC-V CPU+GPU integrated optimization platform.Imagination experts use systematically to accelerate the adoption and popularization of the RISC-V CPU, use the GPU to accelerate the landing and industrialization of the RISC-V CPU in the intelligent era, and the advantages of the RISC-V architecture in automotive applications.And the company's display and speech reflects the development trend of RISC-V and has received widespread attention from professionals participating.

Imagination has long been deployed in the CPU field and actively embraced and promoted RISC-V. The company is the leaders of the early members and development tools of the RISC-V International Foundation, as well as the founding member of the RISC-V Software Ecological Promotion Organization (Rise)., Long-term dedicated to the formulation of RISC-V relevant standards and technology development, undertook the organizational coordination of the RISC-V Foundation Development Tool Working Group, and contribute to the technological development and ecological prosperity of RISC-V.The company also actively promoted the development and application of RISC-V products. In June 2022, the first 32-bit high-real-time embedded RISC-V CPU RTXM-2200 was launched in the Catapult series CPU.Application processor APXM-6400.

As a golden sponsors at this summit,Imagination has actively participated in the main conference, technical seminar, exhibition exhibitions, and the same period.The development trend.

High -performanceThe integrated optimization platform of RISC-V

At the summit,Imagination exhibits its latest APXM-6200 CPU and its BXE-2-32 GPU nuclear integrated CPU+GPU complete solution.As a representative of the RISC-V processor, the Imagination APXM-6200 CPU is a 64-bit RISC-V application processor with a dual-transmitting level 11 instruction line, which can provide similar products for consumption and industrial application loadPerformance density.Compared with some familiar application processor IPs, the APXM-6200 has greatly reduced the chip core occupation area, while the performance density is several times as many as these products.

As a difficulty to rely on high -performance and low platform migration to gain user trustThe RISC-V application processor, APXM-6200 can choose single-core, dual-core, and quad-core configurations according to the performance requirements of customers, and control the highest system efficiency and cache coherence through each nuclear power control.While maintaining high performance and high flexibility, the processor also supports the RISC-V vector extension and has fast data coupling specifically for AI accelerators, which makes the chip designEngineers can be easier to achieveRISC-V+AI accelerator, such as the full series of GPU IP with Imagination to achieve efficient and high security integration, thereby improving the performance of the system while saving a lot of development and verifying workload.

In its entitled "PromotionIn the speech of Risc-V, Imagination launched a speech in the Revolutionary CPU and GPU Integration Solutions ", Shreyas Derashri, vice president of Imagination, said: a very obvious trend in the field of Internet of Things and consumer products is that embedded computing is being raised.The higher and higher optimization computing platform, the CPU based on RISC-V has formed a new type of optimization calculation with GPUs and AI/NPUs such as GPU and AI/NPUs formed a new type of optimization calculation with GPU and AI/NPUplatform.

This systematic design and ecological cooperation has also becomeThe new advantage of the RISC-V open instruction set architecture has promoted the high-performance RISC-V CPU to adapt and meet many new application scenarios, creating new opportunities for the next development of RISC-V.At the same time, since the large amount of information that needs to be processed in today's intelligent applications is image and voice, the GPU is used as a martial arts as an intelligent computing accelerator. More than 40%of the semiconductor application scenarios need to be used for processing. ThisIt is very obvious in the application market such as Android, so the importance of the RISC-V+GPU integration computing platform is self-evident.

The application of higher performance brings a new ecology of prosperity

In the first three sessionsAt the RISC-V China Summit, the display and introduction of most RISC-V manufacturers replaced the 32-bit of other architecture with outstanding application performance indicatorsMCU products and embedded schemes, or customized models to attract users' attention and adoption.However, the hotspot of this summit is that many leading manufacturers such as Imagination have brought high-performance technology and products, which comprehensively reflects the performance of RISC-V technology and products in multiple directions. At the same time, the RISC-VThe openness and security of architecture are attracting more and more hardware, software stacks, frameworks and application development partners that have been verified in other architectures, and become new applications such as server and edge intelligence.

Zheng Kui, the director of Imagination Product Marketing, mentioned in the theme of "Imagination GPU Empowerment RISC-V Industrialization and Ecological Innovation" mentioned: with 64-bit high-performance RISC-V application processors such as Imagination APXM-6200 CPU,The market, coupled with various general-purpose and open source intelligent computing frameworks and tools that are constantly emerging in the industry, provide a huge driving force for RISC-V + GPU + AI integrated intelligent processing platform.Imagination provides RISC-V CPU, diverse GPU and AI accelerator product suppliers at the same time. We predict that edge intelligent applications will accelerate into the market.

Imagination's APXM-6200 CPU + Imagination B series GPU live demonstration at this summit has attracted many people to stop and understand. Although the demonstration is only a demonstration board running on FPGA, many Chinese chip design companies, and they areFor system manufacturers that can quickly integrate various AI frameworks and development tools quickly, this means that they can develop very popular embedded/edge intelligence and reasoning calculation boxes on different application scenarios at a very fast speed., So as to meet the needs of embedded and marginal intelligence with high cost performance and energy efficiency.

Comprehensive and detailed product design promotes practical applications

BeThe most important GPU partner of the RISC-V ecosystem, Imagination showed a 360-degree environment at this summit and car electricityDemonstration of sub -dashboard.Smart driving chip supplier can use this at the same time to satisfyThe RISC-V and GPU IP combination required by ISO26262 functional security (FUSA) can quickly develop high-performance, high-profile, and chip area more optimized smart driving chips for traditional domain control mechanisms or emerging regional control models, and use Imagination for a long timeHyperlane technology, which has been widely used and fully verified in the automotive industry to achieve hardware virtualization, and comprehensively meet the comprehensive needs of automotive applications for high performance, high reliability and high safety.

At this summit,Matthew Bubis, director of the Imagination CPU product management department, published a special speech entitled "RISC-V architecture for high integrity and functional automotive application".The key factors in this market are quality, reliability, Safety, and Availability (Availability)waitThe four sexes of automobile products; at the same time, because the development of new models is getting faster and faster, it is not a reasonable, efficient and effective way to develop special chips or IP for specific applications in the field.Scalable architecture.

The RISC-V architecture has brought greater freedom and application space for car chip designers and engineers, so it is more suitable for use in automotive electronic systems, especially in automotive electronic systems, especially in automotive software and workloads.Today, including but not limited to the human -machine interface (HMI), driving assistance and autonomous driving (ADAS/Autonomy), and comprehensive artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML).To this end, Imagination chose to launch a car IP platform for RISC-V CPU + PowerVR GPU, which can support modern car functions such as graphics processing, various computing, hardware virtualization and intelligence.

This combination is notAll of the IMAGINATION car IP platform, more importantly, can ensure the IP development process of performance and automotive products at the same time. By introducing multiple innovations such as basic hazard analysis (PHA) and fault mode and influence analysis (FMEA), etc.The company'sThe system -level development process has passed the strictest stringentASIL-D certification, so its B series and D series PowerVR GPUs also successfully passed the strict ASIL-B certification.Of course, Imagination's RISC-V series CPU also uses the same development process to ensure that it can meet the four sexes of the rigorous car products.

at the same time,Imagination在预先集成RISC-V CPU和GPU的时候，还进行了进一步的创新，实现了高安全性和可靠性的耦合以及更好的PPA性能，使下游的芯片设计厂商和最终的tier-1和Both the car manufacturers can obtain a solution with functional security (FUSA) at the level and system level.It is through such a comprehensive and detailed IP development process, high-performance density and other functionality, and the security and reliability design from components to system levels that ensure the application of the RISC-V processor in the automotive market.

currentThe RISC-V China Summit has come to an end, but companies such as Imagination have launched a high-performance RISC-V CPU IP, solutions such as providing RISC-V CPU + GPU/Accelerator, and can ensure the reliability of RISC-V CPUAnd the security system method, showing that the RISC-V has been full of opportunities in more high-value markets in addition to the 32-bit MCU, embedded processor and SOC that has achieved preliminary success.