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1 Beyond Hardware IP An overview of Arm development solutions 2018 Arm Limited Arm Technical Symposia 2018

2 Advanced first design cost (US$ million) IC design complexity and cost aren t slowing down Software represents 35%-40% of cost at 5nm Source: IBS 28nm 16nm 10nm 7nm 5nm Process node Arm Limited

3 Millions of lines of code Explosion in code size across the board Windows OS Linux kernel Luxury car x x M Windows 2000 (2000) Windows Vista (2007) 0 Linux Kernel 2.6 (2003) Linux Kernel 4.14 (2017) 0 Luxury car (2010) Luxury car (L3 ADAS, 2020) Sources: and Arm Arm Limited

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5 ARM enablement Partners Enablement Arm and partners enable an awesome ecosystem Applications 100,000s Collective effort across the industry Middleware 1,000s Arm focuses on key building blocks, close to the architecture Partners add value with applicationspecific contributions Driver & OS Security Tools 10s 10s 100s Models Arm Limited

RTOS World #1 embedded ecosystem 10+ 13+ 21+ 40+

6 RTOS World #1 embedded ecosystem Middleware codecs IDE, compiler Debug & Trace RTOS Arm Limited

commits 2 Focus on architecture support Across embedded, mobile and HPC Commercial ARM Compiler 3 rd party micro-architecture Collaboration on

7 Open source compilers: It takes an ecosystem GNU toolchain LLVM Arm Ecosystem Top 3 contributor mid/backend 1 Focus on architecture support Optimization for enterprise workloads ARM GNU Embedded/Linux 3 rd party micro-architecture Tools and libraries maintenance and optimization 2,100+ commits 2 Focus on architecture support Across embedded, mobile and HPC Commercial ARM Compiler 3 rd party micro-architecture Collaboration on particular architecture features developer.arm.com/open-source/gnu-toolchain Arm Limited 1 Between GCC 4.9 and From 2013 to Jul-2017 in LLVM and Clang

8 Continuous investment in engineering efficiency Arm s development solutions history pre-dates Arm foundation 1990 Arm is born from Acorn 2005 Acquires Keil 2015 Acquires Carbon Design Systems Launches Arm Compiler Acquires Noral Launches CMSIS Acquires Allinea Arm Limited

SoC Design IP evaluation Architecture exploration Design &

prototype of your SoC, and ensure you get it right first time

your system Easy to learn, fast to modify Integration in

11 SoC Design IP evaluation Architecture exploration Design & Prototyping Production Run your code on a cycle accurate virtual prototype of your SoC, and ensure you get it right first time Extensive library of cycle-accurate models Deep visibility into your system Easy to learn, fast to modify Integration in SystemC/EDA environments Auto-generate cycle accurate models from custom RTL Arm Limited

menu driven setup of complex interconnect IP Automatic generation of CoreLink interconnect and

12 SoC Design IP evaluation Architecture exploration Design & Prototyping Production Avoid mistakes in the configuration of Arm processor, system and debug IP, and shorten your SoC schedule Easy to use, menu driven setup of complex interconnect IP Automatic generation of CoreLink interconnect and CoreSight debug subsystems Fast and convenient graphical stitching of AMBA interfaces Arm Limited

SoC Design IP evaluation Architecture exploration Design & Prototyping Production Accelerate go-to-market by developing software on a virtual prototype Extensive library of

13 SoC Design IP evaluation Architecture exploration Design & Prototyping Production Accelerate go-to-market by developing software on a virtual prototype Extensive library of functionally-accurate models Deep visibility into your system Functional accuracy: validated against RTL x faster than emulators Integration in SystemC/EDA environments Arm Limited

14 SoC Design IP evaluation Architecture exploration Design & Prototyping Production Arm Approved Find the right partner Arm training Learn your way, anytime Face to face, Live virtual and Online training enables a blended approach to learning, allowing you to learn in the way that suits you best. Design Reviews Get your design right first time Arm experts can review customer s designs at key points in their projects. Catching potential errors at the right time avoids costly mistakes and long project delays. 75% Projects had serious issues identified ahead of tapeout The Arm Approved program enables a rich ecosystem of design partners and training partners, providing our licensees with confidence in selecting partners to trust with their project success. 20+ Approved design or training partners worldwide Arm Limited

15 DesignStart: Fast access to Arm IP and ecosystem DesignStart for custom SoCs/ASICs DesignStart FPGA Cortex-M0 and Cortex-M3 CPUs 1,000s of physical IP libraries License for $0 upfront, only success-based royalties Cortex-M1 and Cortex-M3 CPUs Soft IP in Xilinx FPGA No license fee, no royalties Get started today: DesignStart.arm.com Arm Limited

17 One tool suite. All compute requirements. All design stages. featuring Keil MDK SoC Design IP evaluation Architecture exploration Design & Prototyping Production Software Architecture Development Integration and testing Deployment and maintenance Arm Limited

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19 Streamlined workflow Up to 30% faster code* CMSIS devices supported Most complete architectural support * Based on CoreMark score comparing Arm Compiler 6.11 to 6.6 on Cortex-M Arm Limited

CMSIS-Core (Arm-Core specific) FuSa Event Recorder FuSa C library Software test library (STL) Self-test code for

20 Safety Ready software stack and tools Ready-to-use software framework for embedded applications User Application code Developer focus on added-value Time Thread FuSa RTX RTOS Events Mutex RTOS Scheduler Semaphore Memory FuSa CMSIS-Core (Arm-Core specific) FuSa Event Recorder FuSa C library Software test library (STL) Self-test code for run-time verification CMSIS-Core (device-specific) Safety Ready Arm Compiler Arm Cortex-M processor Arm Limited

Graphics performance analysis and debug Analyze DS-5 Streamline

visualizer Optimize Mali Offline Compiler Analyze shader

utilization Debug Mali Graphics Debugger API Trace & Debug

22 Graphics performance analysis and debug Analyze DS-5 Streamline Profile CPUs and Mali GPUs Timeline HW Counters OpenCL visualizer Optimize Mali Offline Compiler Analyze shader performance Command line tool Number of cycles Registers utilization Debug Mali Graphics Debugger API Trace & Debug Vulkan, OpenGL ES, OpenCL Debug and improve performance at frame level Arm Limited

23 Example Streamline comparisons ML workloads on CPU vs GPU CPU GPU Arm Limited

24 Arm Development Solutions: Servers & HPC Servers SoC Design Embedded & Safety Ready Mobile & Graphics Servers & HPC Arm Limited

They focus on common issues in HPC Variable comparisons across threads Identification of

25 Debug and performance analysis on very large systems The Arm DDT debugger and MAP performance analyser are designed specifically for HPC systems with tens of thousands of nodes. They focus on common issues in HPC Variable comparisons across threads Identification of over-subscribed cores and sleeping threads Synchronization, communication and workload imbalance for MPI and I/O Arm Limited

26 Arm Performance Libraries for HPC applications DGEMM performance compared to OpenBLAS Optimized BLAS, LAPACK and FFT routines to boost the performance of typical HPC scientific applications Validated with NAG s test suite, a de-facto standard Maintained and supported by Arm for a wide range of 64-bit Armv8-A based platforms Tuned for Armv8-A partner cores like Cavium in collaboration with Silicon Partners Arm Limited

27 2018 Arm Limited Three things to remember from this talk Software development complexity and cost continues to grow Arm provides wide range of products and services to boost engineering efficiency It takes an ecosystem Arm Limited

28 The Arm trademarks featured in this presentation are registered trademarks or trademarks of Arm Limited (or its subsidiaries) in the US and/or elsewhere. All rights reserved. All other marks featured may be trademarks of their respective owners Arm Limited

Profiling and Debugging OpenCL Applications with ARM Development Tools. October 2014

Profiling and Debugging OpenCL Applications with ARM Development Tools October 2014 1 Agenda 1. Introduction to GPU Compute 2. ARM Development Solutions 3. Mali GPU Architecture 4. Using ARM DS-5 Streamline