The MIPS® M8500 real-time compute subsystem is a turnkey enabler for physical AI platforms that need precise control. MIPS developed the M8500 real-time compute subsystems product line, offering low-latency, functionally safe, reliable processing for a variety of applications:
Automotive
- Traction Inverter
- On-Board Charger (OBC)
- High-Voltage to Low-Voltage DC/DC
- Converter (HVLV DCDC)
- Battery Management Systems (BMS)
Industrial
- Motor Drives
- Servo Drives
- Robotics
- AC Inverters
- Brushless DC Motors (BLDC)
- String Inverters
- Grid Infrastructure
- Electric Vehicle Chargers
- Power Conversion
- Wall Chargers
- Solar Energy Storage
Physical AI platforms need precise control of motors and manipulators to increase the flexibility and adaptability of robots to the human world. Innovative new real-time multithreaded architecture is capable of rapid event-driven processing and sub-10μs loops with determinism, safety, and real-time performance features built in.
The MIPS M8500 combines the real-time performance of a proprietary architecture with the ease-of-use of a general-purpose core. This leads to better performance, lower power, and increased area efficiency, while being easy to adopt and use. Engineered on the open foundation of RISC-V, all this can be achieved while using a general-purpose programming model.
Customers can rely on MIPS expertise in low latency control loop problems to help deliver the right solution, whether it’s integrated into their next SoC design, a chip based on MIPS reference silicon, or their own custom tailored solution.
The MIPS M8500 real-time compute subsystem will be open for select customer evaluation via MIPS Atlas™ Explorer mid-2025, with evaluation boards in 4Q25 and reference design availability in 1H26.