RISC-V Accelerators, Enablement and Applications for Automotive and Smart Home in the ISOLDE Project
摘要
With Artificial Intelligence applications becoming ubiquitous, both industrial and consumer applications require more computing availability. The increasing need for power-constrained Artificial Intelligence computing asks for new and innovative solutions, on both hardware design as well as on software toolchains that leverage them. At the same time, the challenge of EU technological sovereignty encourages an industry trend oriented to developing its own solutions for power efficient High Performance Computing (HPC). In this context, as partners in the ISOLDE project started in 2023, we propose the development of new power efficient embedded HPC accelerators, HPC design platforms, as well as High Level Synthesis (HLS) approaches and toolchain technology designs for RISC-V based applications. Specifically, we envisage applications such as Fast Fourier Transform, Number Theoretic Transforms, Post Quantum Computing and artificial intelligence, as well as designing ONNX targeted toolchains based on the LLVM compiler, open solutions for Neural Networks (NN) accelerators and new OpenMP extensions. Within the ISOLDE framework, the envisaged applications to prove the readiness of these technologies are the Automotive and the Smart Home demonstrators.