VP Technology
RISC-V International

Biography

Andrea Gallo heads up the Technical Activities at RISC-V International with a mission to facilitate the technical vision, cultivate stakeholder engagement, and drive the strategy in a deeply engaged collaboration with RISC-V members across workgroups and committees and growing the adoption of the RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture.
Prior to RISC-V International, Andrea held multiple roles at Linaro starting all Arm datacenter engineering activities ground up from firmware to complex cloud workloads, later as VP of Segment Groups he oversaw verticals from IoT to HPC including smartphones, and AI/ML. In his last years at Linaro he served as executive VP of Business Development, managing all membership contracts and starting new collaborative projects from automotive to Windows on Arm.
Prior to Linaro, Andrea was Fellow at ST-Ericsson for smartphones and application processors and served as the first member representative in the Linaro TSC. Over the years at STMicroelectronics he consistently led the optimisation of hardware-software architectures for new ICs and set up remote teams in India.
Andrea holds a University Degree in Telecommunication and speaks fluent French and English, in addition to his native Italian.

RISC-V is the industry standard ISA that enables an incredible speed of innovation through the collaboration among all adopting companies, governments, academia and individuals.

In this talk, we will examine the opportunity for the RISC-V ISA and how it can be applied to future space challenges. We will detail architectural trends and match from tiny microcontrollers to AI/ML distributed controllers up to centralized compute, including requirements for isolation and security, safety, AI/ML and how RISC-V extensions can be standardized for additional resilience to interference from radiation in space. We will discuss the benefits that the RISC-V architecture can bring to the space ecosystem and highlight the related achievements in 2024 and ongoing technical initiatives.