Storage Solutions: How RISC-V and Custom Silicon Platforms Enable Smart Storage Architectures

Currently, there is a huge demand in the market for storage systems. Reliability, high endurance and robustness are the essential features, which are very much required for such systems. Therefore, SSD controller-based storage solutions are most preferred for data centers.

Join us in this webinar to learn about how Alphawave Semi and our partners are driving innovations in silicon architectures for data center and enterprise systems. We will cover the storage market and technology trends, the importance of RISC-V and custom silicon in these applications, and case studies including an NVMe based RISC-V computational storage platform.

Key Learnings

• How NVMe, computational storage and disaggregation of storage are disrupting traditional silicon architectures
• Application of Alphawave Semi RISC-V cores in next-generation SSD controllers and computational storage
• Case studies: How our customers and eco-system partners are deploying Alphawave Semi RISC-V and custom silicon platforms to accelerate innovation in storage

Target Audience

Designers, Architects, Marketing, Package engineers

Speakers

Sudhir Mallya, Head of Datacenter Vertical Marketing, SiFive, Inc.
Sudhir Mallya is the Head of Datacenter Vertical Marketing at SiFive, where his responsibilities include marketing strategy and business development for computing, storage, and networking applications. He is also responsible for developing the company’s custom silicon product strategy and marketing. Prior to joining SiFive, he held senior management positions at Toshiba, Renesas and NEC Electronics in engineering, marketing, and business development roles. He has a BSEE from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and an MSEE from University of Cincinnati, Ohio.

Ravi Thummarukudy, CEO of Mobiveil, Inc.
Ravi Thummarukudy, CEO of Mobiveil, Inc. has 25+ years of experience in the Semiconductor/IP/EDA industry. Prior to Mobiveil, he was a co-founder of GDA Technologies, Inc which was later acquired by L&T Infotech. At L&T Infotech he was the VP & GM for IP Licensing and HW/SOC services. He has also held various Global Business and Technology Management positions at Cadence Design Systems, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). He was the Chair of the Marketing Working Group (MWG) at the RapidIO Trade association as well as the chair of the Hyper Transport Business Taskforce. He holds an MTech from IIT Madras and MBA from Santa Clara University.