RISCV technology-based accelerator design for next generation of computers (DRAC)

Operation co-funded by EU cohesion policy (European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)) under the programme Cataluña - ERDF (2014ES16RFOP011), managing authority: Subdirección General de Gestión del FEDER de la Dirección General de Fondos Europeos. Ministerio de Hacienda.. The source names no beneficiary for this operation. Location: Barcelona Province (NUTS ES511); Spain. Budget: total eligible expenditure EUR 2,001,444.9; EU co-financing EUR 1,000,722.44, as stated by the source. Runs 2019-06-01 to 2022-05-31. Source: Kohesio, EU cohesion policy projects managed by national and regional authorities (not CORDIS); selected because its summary names quantum technology. Summary from Kohesio (English machine translation by the source): The partnership in emerging technologies ¿Designing RISC-V-based Accelerators for next generation computers¿ (DRAC) will design, verify, implement and fabricate a high performance general purpose processor that will incorporate different accelerators based on the RISC-V technology, with specific applications in the field of security, genomics and autonomous navigation. RISC-V is an open instruction set architecture defined by the RISC-V Foundation. This foundation has attracted more than 100 international institutions including universities, research centers and companies worldwide. RISC-V is modular and extensible, and multiple accelerators can be incorporated to the design. DRAC will develop the first out-of-order general purpose RISC-V processor in Europe. This processor will outperform current and future in-order processor designs. Moreover, DRAC will design the hardware support required to accelerate three emerging application domains: security, precision medicine and autonomous navigation. Designing a secure processor is challenging, especially if we consider the future arrival of quantum computers that will make vulnerable the cryptographic schemes implemented in current processors. Precision medicine workloads will become prevalent in the future. Population-level precision medicine analysis requires a huge compute power. Being able to perform these computations faster and more efficiently will allow precision medicine to become a reality in a near future. Finally, with the arrival of autonomous cars, cars will be equipped with more powerful processors. Reducing the power and cost of these processors is fundamental for autonomous cars to reach the market in the near future.

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Source: Kohesio (EU cohesion policy projects), European Commission, Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy (DG REGIO). Retrieved 2026-10-21. Licence: CC0 1.0 (Cohesion Open Data Platform, dataset 2014-2020 Kohesio projects). Selected metadata, adapted presentation; the publisher's record is authoritative. No endorsement by the source is implied. Licence: public domain dedication (CC0 1.0).

AI-assisted summary: The DRAC project, co-funded by the EU, focuses on designing RISC-V-based accelerators for next-generation computers, with applications in security, genomics, and autonomous navigation. It ran from June 2019 to May 2022 in Barcelona, with a budget of EUR 2,001,444.9. Suggested technology pillar: computing. Generated by AI from the public source text; it may contain errors and the original source is authoritative.