ISOLDE – High Performance, Safe, Secure, Open-Source Leveraged RISC-V Domain-Specific Ecosystems is a Key Digital Technologies Joint Undertaking (KDT-JU) project that aims at improving the functional and non-functional properties of European high-performance RISC-V-based CPUs within the next five years, to reach or surpass the established competitors and proprietary alternatives. This will be achieved by exploring and implementing advanced architectures and, in addition, by providing novel accelerators as well as IPs to complete the high-performance compute infrastructure based on inputs of around 40 partners that cover the entire value chain.

The project is led by Infineon and includes players covering, besides hardware design, also electronic design automation tools, the full software stack, as well as a range of industry-strength use-case applications.

ISOLDE is aligned to the EU long-term strategy for improving the RISC-V-based ecosystem, including the creation of a repository of industry-grade building blocks to be used for System-on-Chips (SoC) designs in different application domains, such as automotive, industrial, and aerospace. The participation of the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering of the Politecnico di Milano to the ISOLDE project is part of the activities carried out by the HEAP Lab.