Flexible and Scalable Domain Specific Architectures
Gavin Stark – Chief Scientist, Netronome Systems, San Francisco, USA
Nicolaas Viljoen – Associate Director, Software Engineering, Netronome Systems
Abstract
In this talk we will first introduce the concept of a domain specific architecture (DSA) using the Netronome Flow Processor (NFP) as an example, we will cover the motivation, design and implementation. Thereafter we will explore how this architecture’s flexibility has been leveraged in the past to handle unique platforms such as the Facebook Yosemite v2 Platform. Finally approaches for designing flexible chipsets in the future will be explored, including the value of system wide computational modelling.
Tuesday 12th February 2019 2:20 pm – 2:50 pm – Schedule
Bio
Gavin Stark is currently Chief Scientist at Netronome Systems. He has been designing high speed communications systems for over 20 years. He is now developing his eighth generation of network processing architecture.
Prior to Netronome, Gavin held Chief Architect and Chief Technical Officer positions at, Virata, Cirrus Logic and Basis Communications, which was acquired by Intel Corporation.
Gavin holds both an MA and a PhD from Cambridge University as well as holding several patents in areas including packet processing algorithms and network processor architecture.
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