Video: Dipesh Patel's SNUG Silicon Valley 2015 Keynote on IoT

ARM Executive VP Dipesh Patel delivered a keynote address at the recent 25th anniversary Synopsys Users' Group event in Silicon Valley on designing products for the IoT. The full title is: "The Internet of Completely Different Things."

We've just made the video of Dipesh's full keynote available for those of you who weren't able to attend live (or who want a repeat of the great talk!). Dipesh wove the deeply technical topics into stories around one of his favorite hobbies and sports, cricket (the ICC Cricket World Cup was in full swing).

You can also see a video of Aart de Geus's SNUG keynote address focusing on the concept of "Shifting Left" throughout the design flow (changing tasks previously done in series to parallel execution, much earlier in the design flow).

In Dipesh's keynote, he remembered back to some ARM-Synopsys collaboration history in which he was involved, then he outlined some of the key challenges of building products in the emerging Internet of Things market and introduced some of ARM's solutions in this area. Here are a few key points from his talk:

• Synopsys and ARM have been collaborating for more than 20 years to enable mutual customer success
  • The first major collaborative success was the creation together of the first synthesizable cores from ARM, the ARM7-S and ARM9-S processors
  • He commented on numerous other significant collaboration successes, including the first implementation reference methodologies for ARM processors, power management and low power methodology, optimized implementation of the latest Mali GPU and Cortex processors, and support for Synopsys latest physical implementation tool, IC Compiler II
• Dipesh highlighted a few key joint customer collaborative successes, including:
  • Spreadtrum's success: booting Linux in 3.5 minutes using hybrid emulation (combining Synopsys ZeBu Server 3 emulator and Virtualizer virtual prototype with ARM Fast Models), enabling early SW bring-up
  • AMD's "Seattle" successful SoC - a Cortex-A57 MPCore-based energy-efficienit server chip (see a video of the designers talking about their success at ARM TechCon)
• ARM launched its premium mobile IP suite, including cortex-a72, with support for Synopsys IC Compiler II
  • Success in premium mobile requires integrated IP and fast tool turnaround time
  • Dipesh disclosed that the Cortex-A72 ARM-Synopsys collaboration team achieved >2.6GHz performance Reference Implementation with < 2 day turnaround in IC Compiler II
• IoT, while connecting the real world, is changing business models and evolving quickly into a $450Bn semiconductor market(!)
• Meeting the challenges of IoT design requires addressing: Security, Productivity & Management, Connectivity and Efficiency
• All of that "little data" in IoT will drive an explosion of "big data" (and drive the need for solutions in networking, compute and storage)
• ARM is providing its ARM mbed IoT Device Platform, including its Device Server, mbed_os and mbed ecosystem
• ARM is pursuing extreme power efficiency through a number of approaches
• ARM offers different M-class processors for IoT, since one size doesn't fit all applications
• Core to ARM's solutions is their vision for an "Intelligent Flexible Cloud" (see charlenemarini's great article on this vision in the IoT Community)
• To close, Dipesh highlighted a number of the SNUG 2015 sessions on ARM-Synopsys collaboration and mutual customer successes