Sam Grove
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. His work led to the realization of SiFive’s next-generation development boards that have played a pivotal role in growing the RISC-V software ecosystem across embedded RTOS projects, Linux Distributions, and optimized software libraries commonly used in AI/ML runtimes.
Session
The traditional model of selecting a CPU from a datasheet and then beginning software development is outdated. Today, customers need to optimize software while being able to influence the hardware. The hardware/software co-design paradigm shift drives new requirements: system-level virtual platforms; standards-based extensible hardware; and open toolchains.
This keynote will explore how virtual platforms for software development and workload optimization bridges the gap between hardware and software, enabling early architecture exploration for a variety of processor cores. Sam will explain how MIPS Atlas Explorer supports RISC-V designs that conform to standard Profiles while still allowing for application-specific extensions. He will showcase Atlas Explorer in action through demos targeting RISC-V core models and deploying to commercially available hardware. Attendees will also get a glimpse of how Atlas Explorer is being used by industry leaders to tailor systems around real workloads, reducing cost and increasing platform confidence ahead of silicon.