Empower Chip Design Innovation with RISC-V and ACL Digital’s Semiconductor Engineering Expertise
Comprehensive RISC-V Solutions for High-Performance SoC and Chip Development
ACL Digital’s RISC-V partnership program accelerates organizations to drive innovation in open-standard, high-performance processor architectures. With deep expertise and proven SoC design capabilities, we help businesses unlock the potential of RISC-V to deliver scalable, efficient, and secure semiconductor solutions. Our RISC-V Center of Excellence expedites development cycles and ensures optimal performance for complex semiconductor applications.
By collaborating with ACL Digital, enterprises gain a trusted technology partner with a strong foundation in RISC-V design, verification, and integration. From concept to silicon, we deliver tailored solutions across AI/ML, Automotive, IoT, and HPC domains. Together, we can shape the next generation of intelligent, energy-efficient systems that redefine performance, flexibility, and cost efficiency.
RISC-V Solutions Driving Semiconductor Innovation and System Performance
ACL Digital delivers end-to-end RISC-V design, development, and verification services, helping enterprises innovate faster, optimize performance, and achieve scalability across AI, Automotive, IoT, and High-Performance Computing through advanced semiconductor engineering expertise.
End-to-End SoC Development
End-to-End SoC Development Full-cycle RISC-V–based SoC design and development—from specification, RTL design, verification, and emulation to silicon validation—ensuring seamless functionality and performance optimization.
RISC-V Architecture Consulting
Strategic architectural guidance and microarchitecture design services tailored to optimize performance, scalability, and system efficiency for diverse semiconductor applications.
FuSa Expertise
Our Functional Safety practice comprises 25+ certified ISO 26262 experts delivering end-to-end ASIL B to ASIL D compliance, enabling robust safety architectures, verification, and certification for automotive systems.
Custom Core Design & Integration
ACL Digital specializes in developing custom RISC-V cores tailored to application-specific requirements across AI/ML, data centers, and High-Performance Computing. Our designs are optimized to maximize PPA (Power, Performance, and Area), enabling superior efficiency, scalability, and a unique competitive advantage.
Legacy System Migration
Efficient migration of proprietary or legacy processor architectures to RISC-V ISA, reducing licensing costs while improving scalability and innovation readiness
Debugging, Verification, & Validation (V&V)
We provide advanced, specialized design verification, tracing, and debugging services to ensure that RISC-V cores in a SOC function as intended, are bug-free, and meet all performance and security specifications.
Ecosystem Enablement & Toolchain Support
Comprehensive RISC-V ecosystem integration, compiler and SDK support, and toolchain customization for faster deployment and interoperability. Manage and customize the RISC-V software toolchain (GCC, LLVM, QEMU, GDB, RTOS) to ensure optimal performance and debugging capabilities for all in-house cores.
IP Integration & Verification
Define the process for integrating and rigorously verify both commercial and internal RISC-V cores and custom extensions such as crypto, hypervisor and vector to ensure compliance and quality.
AI, Automotive, IoT Enablement
Domain-specific RISC-V solutions supporting AI compute, automotive ECUs, industrial IoT, next-gen networking systems, consumer electronics such as smart sensors and actuators, security cameras, and medical devices.
Performance Optimization & Benchmarking
Custom enhancements and frequency tuning to meet performance benchmarks and achieve superior processing efficiency.
RISC-V Core Hardening
A crucial step in the semiconductor flow where a RISC-V core’s RTL becomes a verified, manufacturable layout. Because RISC-V is highly customizable, ACL Digital applies specialized hardening methods to meet specific PPA goals, supporting everything from ultra-low-power IoT designs to high-frequency solutions for data centers and HPC.
Partnership Benefits with ACL Digital
The combined strengths of RISC-V and ACL Digital deliver a decisive advantage to organizations building next-generation semiconductors and embedded solutions. This collaboration enables enterprises to innovate faster, reduce development risk, and bring differentiated silicon and systems to market with greater confidence.
Accelerated IP Integration Across Heterogeneous Systems
Streamlined integration of RISC-V cores with 3rd-party IP, accelerators, security blocks, and custom peripherals speeds up SoC assembly.
Consistent Performance Tuning Across the Compute Stack
Joint optimization of micro-architecture, memory hierarchy, and interconnect protocols ensures consistent throughput and lower latencies.
Reliability, Safety, and Functional Compliance Support
Support for ISO 26262, ASIL-level flows, and robust verification frameworks helps meet automotive and mission-critical reliability targets.
Early Architecture Modeling & Simulation
Cycle-accurate and performance modeling enables early bottleneck identification, reducing post-silicon surprises.
Power Optimization for Edge and Embedded Devices
Architectural tuning, clock gating, and low-power design methodologies help achieve aggressive power and thermal targets.
Flexible Customization Without Vendor Lock-In
The open RISC-V model, combined with ACL Digital engineering, allows fine-grained customization while avoiding proprietary constraints.
Rapid Bring-Up Through Emulation & FPGA Validation
Comprehensive emulation and FPGA prototyping capabilities shorten the validation loop before tape-out.
Scalable Support for Future RISC-V Extensions
Future-proof architectural planning ensures compatibility with upcoming RISC-V ISA extensions and evolving ecosystem tools.