A Layered Approach to High Performance Device Virtualization

The complexity and performance requirements of computing systems have been growing and demands are further driven by applications, such as ML and the everything-connected world of IoT with many billions of connected devices.

Arm has developed a virtualization and accelerator strategy to address this, which we discuss in this white paper from our Architecture and Technology Group

A layered approach to high performance device virtualization.

This white paper covers:

• The requirements and challenges of virtualization of accelerators and I/O devices
• The existing device driver use models and the emerging models for next generation systems
• The set of standard layers required to enable the implementation of reusable software and hardware components