Shared Purpose:

Collaborating to
Transform the
Datacenter and Beyond
Arm Infrastructure Ecosystem Overview

Imran Yusuf, Director of Hardware Ecosystem, INF LoB, Arm

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 The Era of Custom Silicon

AI DRIVEN SUSTAINABILITY COMPLEXITY

Explosion of data and Net zero goals and Advanced node

demand for compute total cost of ownership complexity and cost

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 What Do Computing Infrastructure Providers Want?

Faster TTM,
Lower Risk,
Efficient ROI
Lower Differentiation &
Development Costs Specialization

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 Arm Neoverse: The Future of Computing Infrastructure
APPLICATIONS

SOFTWARE
MIDDLEWARE,
LIBRARIES
TOOLS Technology Leadership
ECOSYSTEM
OS, FIRMWARE CPU PERFORMANCE & EFFICIENCY

STANDARDS

SECURITY
COMPUTE
PLATFORM
Freedom to Innovate
SYSTEM
MAXIMIZING PARTNER LEVERAGE

MEMORY IO

PA R T N E R
INNOVATION

STANDARDS Tradition of Partnership

SILICON IP
MODELLING
ECOSYSTEM & DESIGN DIVERSE & VIBRANT ECOSYSTEM

FOUNDRY EDA

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 Arm Neoverse Compute Subsystems (CSS)
Accelerating time to custom Silicon
Announced
Aug’23
Arm Neoverse CSS
Fastest Path to Production Silicon

Security
Partner specific
on-chip
World Leading Performance Accelerators

System
control
Power Control
Leading Edge Technology Memory IO

Partner Innovation

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 Arm Neoverse CSS: Scaling to Deliver a Complete Platform

Security
IO Partner
Innovation
Memory Acceleration, memory

System
control
architecture, etc.
Power Control

Latest CPU and System IP 3rd Party IP & Design Services

Arm POP for advanced nodes Advanced Packaging & Systems
Control, Mgmt, Debug, Security Commercial Software and Firmware

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 Introducing Arm Total Design

Enabling Frictionless Delivery of Arm Neoverse CSS-based SoCs

3rd Party IP Design Services Foundry Firmware
Pre-validated to Expertise on CSS Support on leading Commercial firmware
ensure compatibility designs and edge nodes & 3D support for Neoverse CSS
methodology technology

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 Global Expertise for Every Stage of SoC Development

3rd Party IP Design Services Foundry Firmware

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 Socionext, TSMC & Arm Collaborating on a Multi-Core Chiplet PoC
One chiplet leveraging Arm Neoverse CSS technology, addressing multiple markets needs

Hyperscale Cloud Processing SoC

• 4x 32-Core chiplets; I/O Hub chiplet
• HBM, DDR, and PCIe high-speed interconnects

5/6G Infrastructure SoC

• 1x 32-Core chiplet; Optional FPGA chiplet
• Custom Low PHY, MIMO DSP algorithms

Fast multi-chip integration

Create new SoCs from existing chiplets Edge AI SoC
Ability to select and upgrade to latest chiplets • 2x 32-Core chiplets w/ UCIe; Optional FPGA chiplet
• Custom AI accelerator; HBM

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 The Full Package from AMI for Arm CSS Customers

On Chip • Extend arm base enabling solution with

• Provide standard boot firmware for arm FVPs
Platform Boot Telemetry additional RAS and market ready solutions
with SystemReady compliance
FW (BIOS) Controller • Complete any required communication with
• Enable Si partners and ODMs/OEMs with
(SCP) BIOS and BMC
starting solution that “just work”

Platform On Chip
• Provide standard management firmware for • Extend arm base enabling solution with
Management Manageme
arm FVPs with SystemReady compliance additional RAS and other management
FW (BMC) nt Controller
• Enable Si partners and ODMs/OEMs with solutions
(MCP)
starting solution that “just work” • Complete any required communication to
integrate with a BMC

• Secure Si partner reference designs On Chip

Platform
Security • Provide a flexible Si RoT that can be extended
Security • Enable ODMs/OEMs with platform security by Si partners
solution that “just work” Controller
FW (PRoT)
(RSS)

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 Accelerated deployment of innovative custom silicon

13 80
Months from Kick-off Engineering Years Saved
to Working Silicon

PA R T N E R A PA R T N E R B

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 Google Container
15+ Years Actions
Industry Leaders Accelerating
Optimized OS

of Investment Arm Solutions

100+ ISVs
Commercial Support
Arm
100s of OSS Software
Native Build Projects Ecosystem
100K+ Docker
Hub Images
Drone.io

10k+ Companies
Deploying Workloads …
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 Accelerate Software Development with
Access to FREE Arm Neoverse platforms for Open Source Project development

Amazon T4g instances Equinix Metal hosted Google Cloud Microsoft Azure VMs
bare metal Ampere Tau T2A VMs based on Ampere
Altra Servers Altra Servers

Hosted Edge OCI Ampere Hosted Ampere SR1 Cloud VMs

platforms – Rpis, A1 shapes e-MAG Servers
Nvidia Jetson Nano

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 Arm SystemReady
Software that just works seamlessly across a vibrant, diverse ecosystem of hardware

Certification
Edge Cloud
program
Extends the success of ServerReady
to embedded servers and IoT Architecture
Compliance Suite (ACS)

Base Boot
App
Requirements (BBR/SBBR)
Common OS
Base System
FW compliant FW compliant FW compliant Architecture (BSA/SBSA)
HW compliant HW compliant HW compliant
SoC 1 SoC 2 SoC 3

Common components like OS, hypervisor, and middleware that just work Specifications enable hardware and firmware compatibility
Partners can focus on innovating & deploying differentiating layers Certification provides the evidence and confidence

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 Arm SystemReady Supporters

118
Published SystemReady
certifications

Software Just Works on

Arm

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 Hardware Standards - Expanding Usability
Learn more at Arm SystemReady ->

System Architecture Arch Compliance Suite Manageability Compliance

Arm SystemArchAC Open-source compliance New open-source test suite
• Standards approach for testing for for SBMR Compliance
maximum compatibility and • Hardware (pre-silicon, silicon
consistency Automated HW Management
and platform)
• Where Arm system standards are compliance testing
developed • Firmware (boot- and run-
• Consortium of 60+ Companies time) Ongoing collaborating with
(Arm partners, hardware and • Security firmware interfaces Arm server partners to verify
software ecosystem) (UEFI SecureBoot, TPM, their implementations
Secure FW Update)
Contributed to OCP

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 In Summary
Arm Ecosystem Momentum is Building across both Hardware and Software
Arm Total Design is bringing expertise from across the semiconductor industry to accelerate the path to
custom, workload-optimized silicon. Contact us for collaboration.
• arm.com/markets/computing-infrastructure/arm-total-design

Arm and our partners continue to broaden software solutions , and developers have access to tools
anytime and anywhere available to them

SystemReady and standards are delivering the “just works” and server “usability” experience for data
centers

Working together, we ensure broad accessibility to performant, efficient solutions that help meet the
demand of an AI-accelerate future

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