Rigoletto

With electrification and automated driving, the software in vehicles is growing fast, to an estimated billion lines of code by 2030. The established architecture of many separate control units can no longer keep up. Future vehicles concentrate their computing power in a few fully programmable domain and zonal controllers.

Rigoletto (RISC-V Generation of High Performance Automotive Processors and Computing Platforms) lays the foundation for a European automotive hardware platform based on the open RISC-V instruction set architecture. It develops processor cores, AI accelerators, interconnects, memory hierarchies, peripherals and design tools across several performance classes. A jointly developed reference platform is to be interoperable and safety-certifiable and to avoid fragmentation.

Rigoletto is part of the European RISC-V ecosystem, alongside projects such as TRISTAN and ISOLDE, and supports the industry-led Vehicle of the Future initiative.

Partners and funding

64 partners from 16 countries coordinated by Infineon Technologies AG, among them Bosch, NXP, STMicroelectronics, imec, CEA, Thales, the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Siemens EDA, the Eclipse Foundation and the Institute of Computer Engineering of the University of Lübeck. More on the project website.

Supported by the Chips Joint Undertaking and its members, with national co-funding, under grant agreement No 101194371. Funded by the European Union.