Ventana Micro Systems Inc. has unveiled its Veyron family of high-performance data-center-class RISC-V CPUs. The company claims the first family member, the Veyron V1, is the highest performance RISC-V processor available today, running at 3.6-MHz in 5-nm process technology. It also is the first to provide single thread performance that is competitive with the latest incumbent processors. The Veyron V1 will be available in chiplets and IP.
The standards-based, ultra-low latency chiplet solution delivers rapid productization and a reduction in development time and cost compared to typical IP models, said Ventana.
(Source: Ventana Micro Systems)
Targeting data center, automotive, 5G, AI, and client applications, Veyron V1’s efficient performance combined with the RISC-V’s open and extensible architecture enables high single socket performance among competing architectures, resulting in greater workload efficiency gains through domain specific acceleration, according to the company.
Ventana estimates that the Veyron V1 compute chiplet and reference platform enable a time-to-market acceleration of up to two years and reduction of development costs by up to 75%. Chiplets provide improved unit economics by right sizing compute, IO, and memory, said Ventana.
The RISC-V CPU core represents the centerpiece of the first compute chiplet solution with chiplets supplied by different companies, said the company. The Veyron platform enables the integration of a flexible domain-specific accelerator for hardware/software codesign. Additional features include an eight-wide, out-of-order pipeline; 16 cores per cluster, high-core-count multi-cluster scalability up to 128 cores, and 48 MB of shared L3 cache per cluster.
Other key features of the Veyron RISC-V CPUs include comprehensive RAS features, virtualization, robust security, advanced interrupt controller, and top-down performance tuning methodology. It also includes IOMMU and advanced interrupt architecture (AIA) system IP.
Veyron V1 in the form of chiplets and IP will be available in the second half of 2023. The software development kit (SDK) includes an extensive set of software building blocks proven on the RISC-V platform. The necessary software comes already ported to Veyron.
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