About the session
Emre Ozer, Senior Director, Processor Development, Pragmatic Semiconductor, UK
I will begin by outlining the quantitative and qualitative requirements of emerging applications at what we refer to as the Extreme Edge, and explain why conventional electronics are ill-suited to enable compute capabilities in Extreme Edge that have a volume of a few trillions annually. I will then introduce Pragmatic’s disruptive FlexIC technology, showcasing several compute prototypes fabricated using this technology, as a potential candidate for enabling "compute" at the Extreme Edge. For addressing the distinct demands of Extreme Edge applications with the FlexIC technology, we have developed a methodology for generating RISC-V instruction subset processors (RISSPs) tailored to these applications - processors that are sufficiently lightweight to be realised in FlexIC technology. This methodology integrates verification as a core design principle by treating each instruction in the ISA as a discrete, fully functional, pre-verified hardware block. As a result, RISSPs can be composed in a modular fashion, significantly reducing time-to-market.
