The industrial sector requires advanced compute processing to effectively configure, control, and manage assets. This allows operators to minimize human involvement and downtime while maximizing productivity, safety, and ROI. As robots replace human operators, sophisticated, physical AI-capable processors are increasingly needed to enable autonomous decision-making.
The RISC-V ISA is flexible and customizable to address the specific requirements of Industrial and Robotic use cases, including advanced compute capabilities to support physical AI.
Its code-efficient and scalable architecture enables optimized power consumption and right-sized deployment, reducing end-to-end solution costs. RISC-V industrial solutions can be certified functionally safe and are supported by a vibrant ecosystem with a robust supply chain of established market-leading vendors.
Video: The Future of Mission Critical Edge Compute Is RISC-V
David Levy, Microchip
Levy explains why mission-critical edge compute requires high-performance MPUs featuring time/space partitioning for mixed-criticality workloads, alongside robust fault-tolerance and fault-isolation. Discover how RISC-V achieves this and the opportunities that exist in aerospace and industrial applications.
The RISC-V ISA is flexible and customizable to address the specific and increasingly complex requirements of Industrial and Robotic use cases
Customizable
The RISC-V ISA is configurable, with a small base, extendable through extensions to support specific Industrial segment requirements such as enhanced fault tolerance and longer service cycles for harsh environments
AI-Native
Built for vectorization, the RISC-V ISA provides custom instructions and domain-specific acceleration to address physical AI compute workloads on assets and edge devices
Functional Safety
The customizability of RISC-V enables the development of functional safety features that can be certified to the appropriate ISO or other standard
Enhanced Security
An open industry standard ISA provides transparency, mitigating the risk of hidden security vulnerabilities. Customization by extensions allows for domain-specific security features
The RISC-V ISA is the resource-efficient, cost-effective solution for Industrial and Robotics compute applications
Resource Efficient
RISC-V’s modularity ensures that Industrial use cases are not encumbered with features developed for other applications. This enhances code efficiency and optimizes power consumption
Scalable
RISC-V is the single ISA that scales across Industrial use cases, from low-power on-board sensors and physical AI to powerful Industrial modelling HPC, allowing for end-to-end toolchains and software reuse
Right Sized
Modular RISC-V permits right-sized code-efficient processors, reducing overspend and simplifying performance against power consumption trade-off decision making.
Fault Tolerant
RISC-V implementations can be customized through extensions to prioritize fault-tolerant feature sets that improve reliability to reduce downtime and maintenance intervention in harsh industrial environments.
No Fee ISA
Incurs no ISA-specific fees, so can be cost-effective for high-volume long lifespan processors, deployed across multiple industrial applications.
RISC-V fosters an open ecosystem that empowers an established robust and resilient end-to-end supply chain
Open Ecosystem
A growing open ecosystem already provides solutions for current and future Industrial use cases. These include hardware processor cores, IP, industry-standard Linux distributions, RTOS, toolchains, and other software ported to RISC-V for simplified deployment
Vendor Choice
In a market traditionally served by a small number of vendors, RISC-V opens up user choice and avoids single vendor lock-in issues
Supply Chain Stability
RISC-V has already been embraced by established vendors including hyperscalers and global chip suppliers with proven experience in industrial and adjacent segments.
Technology Sovereignty
RISC-V promotes technology sovereignty, allowing users control over their roadmap without reliance on specific commercial or geographical entities