RISC-V Engineering
Custom silicon on an open instruction set.
RISC-V is changing the economics of custom compute. Its open, extensible ISA eliminates per-core licensing fees and lets you build application-specific processors — from efficient management cores to high-throughput compute clusters.
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Memory
SRAM / DDR ctrl
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RISC-V core(s)
core cluster + optional custom extensions
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Peripherals
UART · SPI · I2C · GPIO · timers
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Ethernet MAC/PCS
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PCIe controller
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UCIe / D2D
(optional)
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Accelerator
NPU / DSP / custom
The interfaces we verify are the ones this subsystem has to drive.
WHAT WE DO WITH RISC-V
Custom processor solutions
Selecting, configuring, or designing cores against PPA targets.
Application-specific computing
ISA extensions and accelerator coupling for your workloads.
SoC integration
RISC-V subsystems with memory, interconnect, peripherals, and high-speed interfaces.
FPGA prototyping
Running the RISC-V subsystem on FPGA early to reduce risk.
Hardware / software co-design
Bring-up firmware, bare-metal software, and toolchain integration.
Power-efficient, scalable architectures
From embedded control to multi-core clusters.
CO-DESIGN FLOW
1. Architecture
2. RTL
3. FPGA
Prototype
Prototype
4. Firmware /
bring-up SW
bring-up SW
5. Model
Deployment
(for AI targets)
Deployment
(for AI targets)
6. Optimization
7. Silicon
hardware evidence early
bare-metal, toolchain
real workloads on real logic
measured, not guessed
Architecture and software questions get answered before tape-out, not after.
WHY THIS BELONGS NEXT TO CONNECTIVITY
Ethernet — streamed input / gateway case
PCIe — host-attached case
UCIe — chiplet case
→
RISC-V subsystem
control plane: configures, schedules, handles interrupts
⇄
Shared memory
Descriptor queues
DMA
→
←
DMA
AI accelerator
data plane: tensor compute
→
Edge AI workload results
Interconnect exists to feed compute. The RISC-V subsystem orchestrates data movement, schedules work, and exposes a predictable software model.
SNOVA works on both sides, so the whole system performs as one.