TRISTAN EDA Tool training @ RISC-V Summit Europe 2024

Electronic Design Automation tools play a central role for research and development of Processor Families and Hardware Peripherals. TRISTAN aims to expand and develop RISC-V architecture in Europe to compete with existing commercial alternatives, and focuses on low and mid-end performance RISC-V processors including hardware peripherals, software development and EDA tooling. We have provided this free-access training on EDA tooling for RISC-V solutions and will give a glimpse into the TRISTAN EDA tooling landscape, Virtual Platform Modeling for RISC-V Systems, CVE2 Industrial Verification, and shared experiences on IP Design with open-source and commercial tools.

The agenda of the training and presentated materials are listed below:

Welcome and Brief Introduction to the TRISTAN EDA tooling landscape
SPEAKER: Bernhard Fischer (Siemens)
This introduction session will give a brief overview of the EDA tools used in TRISTAN and their alignment to a generalized IC design flow, from architecture exploration to synthesis and layout. [presentation]

Virtual Platform Modeling for RISC-V Systems
SPEAKER: Rocco Jonak (MINRES)
Using virtual prototypes and platforms is becoming more and more common both for large SoCs and embedded systems. This session will briefly outline the elements which MINRES is providing to the RISCV ecosystem in that context, and which improvements are in progress as part of the development within the TRISTAN project. [presentation]

CVE2 Industrial Verification
SPEAKER: Florian ‘Flo’ Wohlrab (OpenHW Group), Davide Schiavone (OpenHW Group), Mario Rodriguez(OpenHW Group)
We will give you an overview how to verify a deeply embedded RISC-V CPU, the CVE2 of OpenHW, with open-source tools and convert it to an industrial usable product within a community driven, TRISTAN sponsored open-source project. [presentation]

Experiences on IP Design with open-source and commercial tools
SPEAKER: Sara Bocchio (STMicroelectronics)
First experiences gained during TRISTAN with Open-Source EDA tools and commercial tools for a design use case will be shared showing advantages and limitations of the approaches taken. [presentation]