As the Moore’s law ended over, the importance of domain specific HW-SW co-optimization is becoming inevitable to provide better performance with given power and thermal budget in every computing area. In this talk I will first present how FADU has been achieving high performance and low power in enterprise grade NVMe SSD domain. I will also briefly introduce RISC-V technology and explain why FADU has adopted the RISC-V processor for our SSD controller. And finally, I will give an overview of how the design principle applied to the processor and SSD domain can be expanded to the other computer systems aligning with what FADU is doing.

Dr. Eyee Hyun Nam is a co-founder and CEO/CTO of FADU Inc. which was founded in 2015 and targeted SoC and solutions for the data center including SSD controllers and products. In FADU Inc., Dr. Nam is leading the entire development and productization including SoC, firmware, validation, and mass production. Dr. Nam received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and Ph.D. degree in Computer Science & Engineering both from Seoul National University in 1998 and 2011, respectively. He studied SSD reliability, parallelized FTL, and compositional constructions of flash storage systems as a post-doctoral researcher at SNU for 2 years. After founding FADU Inc., he has successfully developed and commercialized multiple generations of NVMe SSD products that are well known for their low power consumption and high performance. His research and development interests include application-specific HW/SW co-design and co-optimization of a large-scale compute system for better performance/TCO, full stack memory and storage system design for such as DBMS, and developing programmable HW accelerators for data center services.