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SiFive & Synopsys
SiFive & Synopsys
Accelerating SiFive Processor-based SoC Designs
RISC-V Designs Without Limitations
SiFive is transforming the future of compute by bringing the limitless potential of RISC-V to the highest performance and most data-intensive applications. The company’s unrivaled compute platforms have enabled leading technology companies worldwide the ability to innovate, optimize, and deliver the most advanced solutions across the market segments of chip design. The collaboration between SiFive and Synopsys is providing solutions accelerating the development of SoC's Using SiFive's RISC-V-based processors for AI, machine learning, automotive, data center, mobile, and consumer applications.
Key Benefits
Areas of Collaboration
Optimized Implementation of SiFive RISC-V Processors
Synopsys Fusion QuickStart Implementation Kits (QIKs) optimize the performance, power, and area (PPA) of SiFive's Intelligence™ X280, Performance™ P550, and future processor cores. The QIKs include implementation scripts, reference guides, and a baseline floor plan to kickstart implementation. By utilizing QIKs and leveraging Synopsys’ Fusion Compiler RTL-to-GDSII design product and Synopsys Design Space Optimization (DSO.ai™), the development of SiFive RISC-V based SoC designs can be accelerated.
Solutions for SiFive Automotive™ Processors
As the market transitions to zonal architectures, and manufacturers require the energy efficiency, simplicity, security, and software flexibility, Synopsys EDA design and verification solutions provide prototyping efficiency and PPA optimizing SiFive’s Automotive™ E6-A, X280-A, and S7-A solutions for infotainment, cockpit, connectivity, ADAS, and electrification applications.
Virtualizer Development Kits for SiFive Processor Cores
Virtualizer Development Kits (VDKs) are software development tools integrating fast functional models of specific multicore systems, multicore software debugging/analysis tools and sample software stacks. Virtual prototypes provide fast, fully functional software models of systems under development executing unmodified production code and providing higher debugging/analysis efficiency. SiFive and Synopsys are working closely together to provide an early software development solution for SiFive processor cores.
Testimonials
"As we push the performance of application-specific processors, our collaboration with Synopsys enables us to deliver higher quality, PPA-optimized RISC-V solutions that meet and beat our customers’ compute goals."
Yunsup Lee
|Co-founder and CTO, SiFive
"In the era of software-defined vehicles, Synopsys is helping to drive safety, security, reliability, and quality in the automotive digital value chain. Collaborating with SiFive, has enabled mutual customers the ability to leverage our EDA design and verification solutions to achieve optimal PPA, and prototyping efficiency, while accelerating automotive-compliance for their RISC-V designs."
Kiran Vittal
|Senior Director of Marketing, Synopsys
"The trend towards application-specific silicon is helping to address the intensive compute demands of advanced high-performance systems. Our collaboration with SiFive to provide Synopsys Fusion QIKs enables designers to achieve the optimal quality-of-results for their custom RISC-V-based SoCs."
Sanjay Bali
|Vice President of Marketing and Strategy, Synopsys
Resources
Synopsys and SiFive Accelerate SoC Design
Synopsys Fusion QuickStart Implementation Kits Deliver Enhanced Power, Performance and Area for SiFive RISC-V Processors
Synopsys QIKs for SiFive RISC-V Processors
Synopsys' QIKs are available for SiFive's Intelligence™ X280 and Performance™ P550 Processors
Partner Panel: It Takes a Village...to Build an Ecosystem
Hear how companies are developing the RISC-V ecosystem and where investment is required to continue growth and technical benefits