Democratizing Design for Future Computing Platforms

نویسندگان

  • Luis Ceze
  • Mark D. Hill
  • Karthikeyan Sankaralingam
  • Thomas F. Wenisch
چکیده

Information and communications technology can continue to change our world. These advances will partially depend upon designs that synergistically combine software with specialized hardware. Today open-source software incubates rapid software-only innovation. The government can unleash software-hardware innovation with programs to develop open hardware components, tools, and design flows that simplify and reduce the cost of hardware design. Such programs will speed development for startup companies, established industry leaders, education, scientific research, and for government intelligence and defense platforms. Information and communications technology (ICT) is changing our world. And yet, even more transformative advances are possible, for example, by using data to personalize medicine and education to the needs of individuals. With advances in machine learning and cloud computing, future ICT improvements will likely exceed past advances, bringing improved quality of life and enhanced competitiveness for the USA as world leader. Past ICT gains have been facilitated by synergistic improvements in hardware, commonly called “Moore’s Law.” Moore’s Law enabled ICT hardware performance and costperformance to double every two years to provide a foundation for the ICT wonders we all experience. Unfortunately, the technology trends fueling Moore’s Law have run against critical physical constraints. Today, this foundation of ICT innovation is no longer rapidly improving, especially in energy-constrained environments from smartphones to data centers. Another key ICT foundation has been the explosion of software innovations incubated by the open-source movement. Open-source software allows universities, established companies, and startups to begin with an improved software infrastructure—such as the LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, & PHP) for providing services over the web. Open source software is especially important for start-up companies because it enables them to launch with much software in place and then rapidly add their “special sauce” to succeed (e.g., Facebook) or fail fast in months rather than requiring multiple rounds of investment. Open source software reduces risk and accelerates the impact of capital investment. To overcome the reduced improvement in conventional hardware, many innovators are looking at designing hardware and software together rather than separately, as has been the norm the last several decades. Such cross-layer design can enable specialization that targets specific use cases with effective, energy-efficient designs that are especially important in emerging low-energy opportunities, such as medical monitoring using energy

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • CoRR

دوره abs/1706.08597  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2017