KDT JU 2022 IA ISOLDE

Purpose and goal

The ISOLDE project aims to speed up the transition towards a green and digital Europe, to strengthen the design capacity and to achieving digital autonomy EU wide. By the end of our project, we will have high performance RISC-V processing systems and platforms at least at TRL 7 for the vast majority of building blocks, demonstrated for key European application domains such as automotive, space and IoT with the expectation that two years after completion ISOLDE’s high performance components will be used in industrial quality products.

Expected effects and result

The customizable IP cores will be hosted on European servers to address the European digital sovereignty requirement that the ISOLDE project will support. This way, ISOLDE will have delivered a major contribution to the unification and focus of the full-fledged industry-supported eco-system for RISC-V open-source architecture, especially in the area of embedded high-performance computing, and thus to the creation of a breakthrough design capacity across the EU microelectronics industry.

Planned approach and implementation

ISOLDE is a large collaborative project with 39 partners spread across Europe. The work begins with establishing requirements and specifications for the building blocks that the project will develop and ends with evaluations of the building blocks as part of several demonstrators within different application domains.