Arteris, SiFive team for RISC-V edge AI reference design
On-chip networking specialist Arteris has signed a partnership deal with RISC-V core developer SiFive to help speed up the development of industrial and consumer chips for edge AI.
Combining the SiFive Intelligence processor IP and Arteris Ncore interconnect IP accelerates the development of chips that can run machine learning frameworks, simplifying the complex verification and validation stage of the design by running the IP on an FPGA.
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SiFive Intelligence X280 multi-core capable RISC-V processor IP enables various data-driven applications, including AI inference, image processing, data centre acceleration and other use cases. Arteris Ncore cache coherent interconnect IP is a configurable and scalable network-on-chip (NoC) interconnect for heterogeneous cache coherent systems-on-chip (SoCs).
The SiFive 22G1 X280 Customer Reference Platform, incorporating a SiFive X280 processor IP and an Arteris Ncore cache coherent interconnect IP that , which is available to run on the AMD Virtex UltraScale+ FPGA VCU118 Evaluation Kit.
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“As companies push the performance of application-specific SoCs that not only include a growing number of processors, but also tremendously complex network-on-chip requirements, our collaboration with Arteris enables us to deliver optimized RISC-V solutions that meet and beat our customers’ compute goals,” said Phil Dworsky, global head of strategic alliances at SiFive.
“There is a growing class of complex SoCs that require a combination of best-in-class processor IP with both non-coherent and coherent NoCs, and we look to extend our technical collaboration going forward to accelerate the development of intelligent edge devices.”
In addition to the SiFive X280 processor and the Arteris Ncore interconnect, the SiFive 22G1 X280 Customer Reference Platform integrates a mix of peripherals to facilitate software development on a RISC-V Vector-enabled platform. SiFive also provides the Freedom SDK for Linux for software development with SiFive IP.
“Our goal is to follow the processor IP choices of our customers and be the leading system IP provider of the emerging RISC-V ecosystem,” said Frank Schirrmeister, vice president of solutions and business development at Arteris. “Our collaboration with SiFive supports our mission to be a catalyst for SoC innovation so our mutual customers can focus on dreaming up what comes next, creating innovative consumer electronics and industrial edge AI/ML products.”
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