Imagine if the blueprints for a computer's brain were open for everyone to improve, like a community garden instead of a private fence. This effort builds a high-quality library of these open blueprints so companies don't have to rely on a single foreign supplier. It also creates the digital tools needed to test and refine these brains quickly before they are physically manufactured.
European companies rely on proprietary processor designs, leading to high licensing costs, vendor lock-in, and a lack of digital sovereignty.
A repository of industrial-grade RISC-V building blocks and a software toolchain including a custom simulator trace parser and automated test generators for instruction encoding.
If you are a power systems manufacturer dealing with vendor lock-in for chip designs — this project developed industrial quality building blocks for power control that reduce dependence on single-source suppliers.
If you are a provider dealing with high costs of proprietary processor licenses for mobile communication — this project developed an open-source RISC-V ecosystem that lowers costs and increases interoperability.
If you are an SME dealing with slow development cycles for custom chips — this project developed automated test generation and simulator tools that boost productivity in creating new processor extensions.
Based on available project data, the project leverages Open-Source to reduce costs to companies and consumers, though specific pricing for the resulting building blocks is not listed.
The project aims to industrialize the RISC-V ecosystem by creating a repository of industrial quality building blocks for SoC designs in domains like automotive and industrial.
The project is based on the RISC-V Open-Source community to avoid vendor lock-ins and ensure European technological sovereignty.
The project has integrated RISC-V support into the NXP GDB IDE toolset and generated architectural description files for the LLVM software toolchain.
The project period runs from 2022-12-01 to 2026-06-30.
The consortium is heavily weighted toward commercial application, with a 76% industry ratio (37 out of 49 partners). The presence of 14 SMEs alongside large players like NXP suggests a broad supply chain approach, ensuring that the resulting open-source tools are practical for both small innovators and large-scale manufacturers across 12 countries.
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