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ISOLDE - High Performance, Safe, Secure, Open-Source Leveraged RISC-V Domain-Specific Ecosystems

Duration:
36 months (2026)
Principal investigator(s):
Project type:
UE-funded research - JTI - KDT
Funding body:
COMMISSIONE EUROPEA (UE-MISE)
Project identification number:
101112274
PoliTo role:
Partner

Abstract

The ISOLDE project aims to significantly support the digital transformation of all economic and societal sectors, to speed up the transition towards a green, climate neutral 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. To achieve such an ambitious goal, an industrial-grade open-source support for development, verification, and maintenance will be provided. The customizable IPs will be hosted on physically located 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.

People involved

Structures

Partners

  • INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG - Coordinator
  • POLITECNICO DI TORINO

Keywords

ERC sectors

PE7_4 - (Micro and nano) systems engineering
PE7_6 - Communication technology, high-frequency technology
PE7_11 - Components and systems for applications (in e.g. medicine, biology, environment)
PE7_1 - Control engineering

Sustainable Development Goals

Obiettivo 9. Costruire un'infrastruttura resiliente e promuovere l'innovazione ed una industrializzazione equa, responsabile e sostenibile

Budget

Total cost: € 42,376,575.50
Total contribution: € 12,542,768.00
PoliTo total cost: € 1,135,000.00
PoliTo contribution: € 794,500.00