Andes teams on FPGA prototyping for RISC-V development
Andes Technology has teamed with S2C to develop an FPGA-based prototyping system for its latest RISC-V cores with extensions.
The strategic deal uses S2C’s new Prodigy S8-100 FPGA prototyping platform, based on the AMD Versal Premium VP1902 adaptive SoC.
This provides up to 100m logic gates in a single FPGA to test out the latest RISC-V cores. The core can be integrated with extensions enabled by the Andes’ Automated Custom Extension (ACE) framework, and additional IP blocks.
FPGA prototyping can face capacity limitations, restricting SoC developers’ ability to integrate multiple RISC-V cores along with subsystems like Network-on-Chip (NoC), DDR, PCIe® controllers, and more.
The Prodigy S8-100 family also includes larger configurations with two or four VP1902 adaptive SoCs, scaling capacity up to 400 million logic gates per system. This enables full SoC validation in hardware, significantly reducing development cycles, optimizing performance modeling, and accelerating software development before production silicon becomes available.
The platform supports S2C’s extensive library of nearly 100 daughter cards to support applications ranging from networking, storage, and multimedia to generic IOs facilitating efficient interface modeling and simulation without sacrificing FPGA logic resources.
“The collaboration between S2C and Andes marks a significant step forward for the RISC-V community, offering advanced SoC developers a powerful and cost-effective FPGA-based prototyping solution,” said Ying J Chen, Vice President of S2C. “Our Prodigy S8-100 platform uniquely addresses the evolving complexity of RISC-V-based designs, helping developers validate their innovations early and confidently accelerate time-to-market.”
“Partnering with S2C provides our customers with the critical advantage of robust, large-capacity FPGA-based prototyping, allowing them to prove-out their customizations early, ultimately accelerating their time-to-market with Andes-based RISC-V SoCs,” said Emerson Hsiao, President of Andes Technology US.
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