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Accelerate RISC-V Verification Using 17³Ô¹Ï Cloud

Anuj Pant

Jun 26, 2024 / 3 min read

RISC-V is an emerging choice for semiconductor companies to create highly differentiated products for a wide range of end applications. Both established players and start-up companies are investing heavily and looking at the RISC-V architecture as an alternative, and in many cases a more flexible solution to current processor architecture options. Unlike proprietary processor architectures, RISC-V lets design teams customize their processor based on the needs of their end target applications:

  • Mobile market constantly pushes for faster, lower power chips. 
  • Extensive silicon proliferation in automotive chips for driverless cars and require enormous compute capabilities. 
  • Datacenters need to process AI- and ML-based computations faster while keeping power budgets under control. 

In this blog we will focus on the EDA, IP and Cloud solutions offered by 17³Ô¹Ï to develop RISC-V designs, accelerating time to results and achieve PPA targets. For those looking to experiment and try out an RISC-V design, 17³Ô¹Ï Cloud offers free access to a RISC-V based sub-system design for functional verification within the SaaS deployment.

17³Ô¹Ï EDA and IP 17³Ô¹Ï for RISC-V

17³Ô¹Ï offers comprehensive solutions for seamless end-to-end development of RISC-V-based SoCs from design and verification, custom processor design, RTL analysis and optimization, Interface and Verification IP. 17³Ô¹Ï ARC-V Processor IP? offers RISC-V processors for high-performance, mid-range and ultra-low power designs to meet the requirements for a wide range of applications. To accelerate software development, ARC-V processors are supported by the trusted 17³Ô¹Ï MetaWare Development Toolkit.

Accelerating RISC-V Development with 17³Ô¹Ï Cloud

As more companies are looking to create differentiated end-market products, the pressure to deliver their projects on-time, time constraints have never been greater. 17³Ô¹Ï Cloud is an option open to companies large and small to address time to market and quality of design challenges by offering industry-leading flexibility that offers time to results and productivity advantages: 

Access by the minute: With the FlexEDA business model, users can scale up and down their tool licenses to run verification and other design flows by the minute, on-demand. With unlimited access to tool licenses, designers can complete their workloads more quickly, and with the time saved run more regressions to further improve the quality of designs. A user survey conducted by an independent consulting company shows an improvement of 40% in time to results compared to traditional on-premises EDA deployments. 

Hybrid Solution for Cloud Bursting: 17³Ô¹Ï Cloud Hybrid solution enables designers to burst their EDA workloads to the cloud securely, seamlessly, and quickly. With automatic job splitting between on-premises and cloud, scheduler integration and real-time bidirectional data synchronization, the hybrid cloud solution significantly improves engineering productivity and save months of IT implementation time. 

Free Access to RISC-V Reference Design on 17³Ô¹Ï Cloud SaS

17³Ô¹Ï offers free access to a RISC-V based sub-system design to run functional verification. Users will be able to: 

  • Experience industry-leading?17³Ô¹Ï VCS? simulation and Verdi? debug and verification management platforms
  • Simulate a sub-system design and generate a waveform dump to see the functionality of 17³Ô¹Ï LPDDR and UART IP with a RISC-V based design
  • Reference additional reference methodologies from 17³Ô¹Ï SolvNet: 17³Ô¹Ï .

You can bring in your RISC-V design as well and run a free evaluation using 17³Ô¹Ï Cloud SaaS or BYOC deployments, providing complete verification, design and RTL analysis and optimization solutions for RISC-V based chip designs. 

17³Ô¹Ï, EDA, IP, and the Cloud

17³Ô¹Ï is the industry¡¯s largest provider of electronic design automation (EDA) technology used in the design and verification of semiconductor devices, or chips. 17³Ô¹Ï is a leading provider of high-quality, silicon-proven semiconductor IP solutions for SoC designs. The broad 17³Ô¹Ï IP portfolio includes logic libraries, embedded memories, analog IP, wired and wireless interface IP, security IP, embedded processors and subsystems. With 17³Ô¹Ï Cloud, we¡¯re taking EDA to new heights, combining the availability of advanced compute and storage infrastructure with unlimited access to EDA software licenses on-demand and easy access to complete IP portfolio so you can focus on what you do best ¨C designing chips, faster. Delivering cloud-native EDA tools and pre-optimized hardware platforms, complete IP access, an extremely flexible business model, and a modern customer experience, 17³Ô¹Ï has reimagined the future of RISC-V chip design on the cloud, without disrupting proven workflows.

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