prpl: a non-profit foundation embracing IoT diversity, big data, and analytics. Members: Imagination, Qualcomm, Lantiq, Broadcom, Ikanos, Ineda, Ingenic, PMC, Cavium, Nevales Networks

1. Using Open-Source& Open Architectures to Enable Next-Gen
Datacenter-to-Device Portable and Virtualized Software
(also delivered at IoT World Event in Palo Alto)
7/1/2014

2. What is prpl?
• A foundation of companies -
• Focusing on developing portable software for
every node in the IoT Ecosystem
7/2/2014 2IoT World Event 2014

3. A Challenge .... and a Solution
7/2/2014 3IoT World Event 2014
• Evolution of IoT
– IoT consortia
– Open source in IoT
• Big Data
• Key Enablers, Challenges
• How can prpl help?

4. Evolution of IoT
7/2/2014 4IoT World Event 2014
Chart 3: The Waves of growth in IoT Devices
Source: Ericsson, Jefferies International
First wave:
Timeline: Today - 2020
Connections: Reaching 20-30bn
Architecture: Dominated by ARM
Second wave:
Timeline: 2016-2025
Connections: Reaching 100s of billions
Fundamental change in business operations -
era of greater efficiencies
Third wave:
Timeline: 2020+
Connections: Reaching trillions
Fundamental change in our way of life - truly
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One of the Definitions -
Network of Physical Objects
that sense, communicate, interact
and get controlled remotely

5. Industrial Internet, IoT, M2M, IoE, oh my!
• Lots of consortia in the IoT space
– Different areas to tackle
• Industrial Internet Consortium – interoperability
• GSMA, 3GPP, IEEE – ubiquitous connectivity
• Allseen –peer connectivity, communications frameworks and interoperability
• OneM2M – service layer aspects
• prpl – architecture independent portability and virtualization, heterogenous
computing to enable big data analytics
7/2/2014 5IoT World Event 2014

6. Why Open-Source?
• Enabling the Big Data
revolution needs collaborative
minds
• Fragmentation will slow down
innovation
• More eyeballs = more secure
7/2/2014 6IoT World Event 2014

7. BIG DATA
KBMBGBPTEBZBYBnon-linear!
7/2/2014 7IoT World Event 2014

8. During 2008 the number of things connected
to the Internet exceeded the number of
people on Earth.
Connecting People  Connecting Things
7/2/2014 8IoT World Event 2014
2015
2010
2003
Source: Morgan Stanley Research, 2013
By 2020 there will
be 50 billion.

9. Big Data: The Internet of Cow
7/2/2014 9IoT World Event 2014
1.5B cows
200MB/yr/cow
=
300,000 GB
(0.3 petabytes)
per year

10. Big Data: Turbines
7/2/2014 10IoT World Event 2014
12,000 turbines
500GB/dayeach
=
6 million GB
(6 petabytes)
per day

11. Little Data  Big Data  Huge Data
• Each successive node in the IoT chain adds
– Data and Storage requirements
– Processing Requirements
– Multi-tenant Requirements (ie security)
7/2/2014 11IoT World Event 2014
Bytes
Megabytes
Terabytes
Petabytes
Exabytes
ZETTABYTES
(1000^7)

12. Synergies
• IoT will enable big data
• big data needs analytics
• analytics will improve
processes for more IoT
devices
7/2/2014 12IoT World Event 2014

13. DIVERSITY
lots of hardware
7/2/2014 13IoT World Event 2014

14. 7/2/2014 14IoT World Event 2014

15. Key Enablers for IoT
• Processing power
• Networking infrastructure and connectivity
• Low cost, secure devices
• Storage
• Loads and loads of secure, portable software
• A way to make money
7/2/2014 15IoT World Event 2014

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IoT Architecture For Heterogeneous
Fleets of Things
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Standardization Challenge
• Fragmentation!
– Connectivity Standards
– Operating Systems
– Topologies
– Security
• Expect diverse solutions, so
– Software abstraction (APIs) needed
at each node
– Multi-tenant environment needed
for security
7/2/2014 16IoT World Event 2014

17. PORTABILITY AND VIRTUALIZATION
prpl foundation
7/2/2014 17IoT World Event 2014

18. Mission
‘prpl’ is an open-source, community-driven, collaborative, non-profit
consortium focusing on the MIPS architecture and ecosystem, and open to all
other architectures -
with a focus on enabling next-generation datacenter-to-device portable
software and virtualized architectures
7/2/2014 18IoT World Event 2014

19. Scalable Processor Architecture Needed, e.g. MIPS
7/2/2014 19IoT World Event 2014
1GHz+ CPU Solution
mobile and home
entertainment
32-bit microcontrollers
for embedded storage,
automotive and IoT
64-bit multicore
advanced networking,
datacenter and
infrastructure
Efficient solutions for
a broad range of
networking & storage
applications

20. Key Domains
7/2/2014 20IoT World Event 2014
Embedded&
IoT
Buildroot, RTOS
Networking
openWrt, yocto
Montavista
Datacenter
RHEL, Fedora,
Ubuntu, CentOS
Digital Home
& Mobile
openWrt, Linux,
Android

21. Work-flow
7/2/2014 21IoT World Event 2014
Upstream projects:
gnu.org, kernel.org, llvm.org
prpl:
Domains and
Engineering
Groups
supported kernels
and projects
projects pulled
from upstream
❖ Optimized Linux Kernels
regardless of architecture
❖ SDKs and Tools
➢ license free versions
❖ launchpad to upstream
❖ advanced future work
➢ SDN
➢ heterogeneous
compute
➢ LLVM
➢ vision

22. prpl Engineering Groups (PEGs)
7/2/2014 22IoT World Event 2014
▪ VZ Ecosystem
▪ Hypervisors (eg KVM, Fiasco.oc)
▪ OS
▪ Data Center – Redhat, Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS
▪ Networking –Montavista, OpenWRT
▪ Embedded/IoT & Mobile - Android, Chrome, Tizen,
WebOS, RTOSs, Yocto
▪ Kernel (device tree, power mgmt, multi-threading)
▪ Portability
▪ JITs (V8, openJDK, etc)
▪ Emulation (QEMU)
▪ Compilers & Tools
▪ Platform
▪ UEFI and boot loaders
▪ Optimization
▪ Intrinsics (eg SIMD) and libraries (eg memcpy) –
■ Multimedia - video, audio, speech
■ Networking
■ Security
■ Networking (multi-core friendly and aynchronous)
■ e.g. BGP, OVS, snort, routing protocols, DPI

23. Low Cost Hardware
7/2/2014 23IoT World Event 2014
❖ prpl stamp #1
➢ dual core MIPS32 CPU @1.2GHz, PowerVR SGX540 GPU, HDMI, 1GB RAM, 8GB Flash, 2
usb, audio, WiFi, BT
➢ Linux and Android 4.4 - community supported, rasbpi header
➢ ETA: June 2014
➢ Price: $40
❖ prpl stamp #2
➢ dual core MIPS32 interAptiv @600MHz, PowerVR SGX520, HDMI, 512MB RAM, 4 GB
Flash, usb, audio, WiFi, BT, aggressive power savings modes enabling 30-day batterylife
➢ Android Wear (smartwatchand IoT platform)
➢ ETA: Oct 2014
➢ Price: $35 (est.)
❖ InterfaceMasters MIPS64 Niagara3218
➢ MIPS64 network system
❖ InterfaceMasters MIPS64 Niagara804-BP
➢ MIPS64 network adapter

24. Summary: what will prpl do?
• Focus on the software “glue” necessary to carry secure
structured and unstructured data from the device to the
datacenter
• Example:
– Securehypervisors for multipletenants
– Portablesoftware, such as JITs
– SaaS, PaaS, IaaS OTA secure
– Programming models to enablebig data processing (eg hadoop) over
heterogenous processors
7/2/2014 24IoT World Event 2014
Embedded
nodes
OpenWrt
hub
Networking
backbone
Datacenter

25. E.g. DevelopSoftware Enabling
Security and Multiple Contexts
• Multiple contexts are required
– Shared resource
– Protected resource
– Energy conservation
• Heterogenous programming models
are required
– Close working relationship with leading
industry consortia, leading semiconductor
companies, OEMs and ISVs
7/2/2014 25IoT World Event 2014
MemoryMemory
CPU
Cluster
Coherent Fabric
SoC
Network layers
Offloads (Crypto, IP, etc)
I/O
GPU
Cluster
Secure Hypervisor (R/G MMU)
H/W
TPM
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vGPU
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2S/W
VM1VM2VM3VMn
Increase
Privilege
SecureDomains
Protected Partitions

26. 7/2/2014 26IoT World Event 2014

28. 7/2/2014 28IoT World Event 2014

29. Resources
• http://prplfoundation.org
• http://www.cisco.com/web/about/ac79/docs/innov/IoE_Econ
omy.pdf
• http://theinstitute.ieee.org/benefits/standards/setting-the-
stage-for-the-internet-of-things
• amit (at) prplfoundation (dot) org
(thanks!)
7/2/2014 29IoT World Event 2014