S2C and Andes Technology have unveiled the results of a strategic collaboration designed to significantly enhance FPGA prototyping capabilities for developers of advanced System-on-Chip (SoC) devices.
The partnership leverages S2C’s new Prodigy S8-100 FPGA prototyping platform, based on the AMD Versal Premium VP1902 adaptive SoC, to deliver unprecedented capacity and flexibility for modeling, prototyping, and software development using Andes’ cutting-edge RISC-V cores.
Historically, FPGA prototyping faced 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 platform addresses these challenges by offering a single FPGA version with up to 100 million logic gates – providing ample capacity for Andes’ most advanced RISC-V processors, including the customers’ differentiating extensions enabled by the Andes’ Automated Custom Extension (ACE) framework, and additional IPs.
