Sam Grove, Head of Software & Tools at MIPS, a GlobalFoundries company, highlights the integration of MIPS’ RISC-V technology with the tools and development support of GlobalFoundries (watch the video above). MIPS supports a collaborative development flow (Fig. 1), which allows for development before hardware is available.
Part of this design-flow support is the Atlas Explorer (Fig. 2). It offers digital-twin functionality, including pre-silicon access through system-level testing. The virtual platform, based on Synopsys’ ImperasFPM, can provide details such as instruction latency trends, and code and data usage, as well as highlight memory locality and access patterns in code.
MIPS supports a wide range of software and integrated hardware from Linux OS through AI acceleration like the MIPS S8200 neural processing unit (NPU).
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Sam Grove
Head of Software & Tools, MIPS, a GlobalFoundries company
Samuel (Sam) Grove is the Head of Software and Tools at MIPS. He has over 20 years of experience in defining products, designing embedded software, operating systems, and leading community-driven open-source software initiatives. In his current role, Sam is responsible for defining product strategy, roadmap execution, and go-to-market activities for MIPS software solutions.
Prior to joining MIPS, Sam was Director of Product Management for Software at SiFive, where he led key initiatives across compiler toolchains, development tools, and software stacks supporting high-performance RISC-V IP platforms.