Software in Silicon in the Oracle SPARC M7 processor

Abstract

1 SW in Silicon is custom hardware targeted at specific higher level functions traditionally implemented in software 2 Cloud based applications, especially analytics, offer many opportunities for SW in Silicon features 3 SW in Silicon in SPARC M7 provides gains in Performance, Power, Security and Memory Capacity 4 Oracle database automatically uses these SW in Silicon features. Other applications access through public API 5 Oracle is researching tighter HW-SW codesign, targeting deeper gains on a wider set of applications