An open-source ecosystem to drive competitiveness and enable more agile innovation

Europe needs an open-source ecosystem to drive competitiveness and enable more agile innovation.

Using open-source hardware and software drasticallylowers the barrier to designing innovative integrated circuits.

Why TRISTAN?

The KDT-JU-funded TRISTAN project aims to expand and develop RISC-V architecture in Europe to compete with existing commercial alternatives. This open specification eliminates the need to learn and create unique ecosystems for each processor architecture, increasing productivity, security and transparency. TRISTAN’s approach will be holistic, covering electronic design automation tools and the full software stack.

What will TRISTAN do?

TRISTAN’S overarching aim is to expand, mature and industrialize the European RISC-V ecosystem to compete with existing commercial alternatives. Building blocks developed in TRISTAN will be demonstrated in the business domains of Automotive, Industrial, Aerospace, Mobile, Wearables and Health.

How will TRISTAN achieve this?

This will be achieved by leveraging the Open-Source community to gain productivity and quality. This goal will be achieved by defining a European strategy for RISC-V-based designs, including creating a repository of industrial quality building blocks for SoC designs in different application domains (e.g. automotive, industrial, etc.).

The project concept of TRISTAN is shown below:

The objective is to reach TRL-5 for the TRISTAN building blocks enabling further industrial adaptation into commercial applications.