By Dr. Ashish Darbari, Founder and CEO, Axiomise
Dr. Ashish Darbari
RISC-V, Chiplets, Formal Verification Adoption in 2024
2024 will offer up a cornucopia technological innovation, AI integration and perhaps unexpected market trends.
It’s hard to argue with the success and adoption of the RISC-V ISA. In 2024, open-source RISC-V implementations for high-performance compute will continue to take wings with interconnect-based SoCs for AI accelerations. Commercial verification tools will begin to emerge in 2024 to support the RISC-V hardware development ecosystems. It will be followed by a robust verification design flow that will quickly become an industry standard.
The semiconductor industry will also see increased adoption of chiplet for AI-based hardware. As the industry moves on to 5nm or less nodes, chiplet would be a key. A chiplet market trend could be the emergence of chiplet suppliers whose only product is a chiplet-based design.
Automotive functional safety though mostly dominated by Arm architecture so far would see new RISC-V players building processors and chipsets that would offer new features while ensuring compliance with ISO26262.
Security continues to be a challenge for hardware design, and here AI will play an interesting role in learning from threat patterns, and we believe adversarial AI would stand out.
