RISC-V Core FPGA/ASIC Performance Comparison: A 45nm Case Study

Document Type : Original Article

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Nanotechnology and Nano electronics Engineering Department , UST at Zewail City 12578 Ahmed Zewail Street, October Gardens 6th of October City, Giza, Egypt.

10.21608/iugrc.2022.302717

Abstract

RISC-V is an open Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) that is expected to dominate the market in the next few years. It is forecasted that market will consume 62.4 billion RISC-V CPU cores by 2025. In this project a RISC-V core is physically implemented as an ASIC using Nangate Open Cell Library 45nm PDK and its performance is compared to a 45nm based Spartan 6 FPGA implementation.

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