With the oneAPI Construction Kit, you may integrate the oneAPI Ecosystem into your Intel RISC V Processor.
Intel RISC-V
Recently, Codeplay, an Intel business, revealed that their oneAPI Construction Kit supports RISC-V. Rapidly expanding, Intel RISC V is an open standard instruction set architecture (ISA) available under royalty-free open-source licenses for processors of all kinds.
Through direct programming in C++ with SYCL, along with a set of libraries aimed at common functions like math, threading, and neural networks, and a hardware abstraction layer that allows programming in one language to target different devices, the oneAPI programming model enables a single codebase to be deployed across multiple computing architectures including CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, and other accelerators.
In order to promote open source cooperation and the creation of a cohesive, cross-architecture programming paradigm free from proprietary software lock-in, the oneAPI standard is now overseen by the UXL Foundation.
A framework that may be used to expand the oneAPI ecosystem to bespoke AI and HPC architectures is Codeplay’s oneAPI Construction Kit. For both native on-host and cross-compilation, the most recent 4.0 version brings RISC-V native host for the first time.
Because of this capability, programs may be executed on a CPU and benefit from the acceleration that SYCL offers via data parallelism. With the oneAPI Construction Kit, Intel RISC V processor designers can now effortlessly connect SYCL and the oneAPI ecosystem with their hardware, marking a key step toward realizing the goal of a completely open hardware and software stack. It is completely free to use and open-source.
OneAPI Construction Kit
Your processor has access to an open environment with the oneAPI Construction Kit. It is a framework that opens up SYCL and other open standards to hardware platforms, and it can be used to expand the oneAPI ecosystem to include unique AI and HPC architectures.
Give Developers Access to a Dynamic, Open-Ecosystem
With the oneAPI Construction Kit, new and customized accelerators may benefit from the oneAPI ecosystem and an abundance of SYCL libraries. Contributors from many sectors of the industry support and maintain this open environment, so you may build with the knowledge that features and libraries will be preserved. Additionally, it frees up developers’ time to innovate more quickly by reducing the amount of time spent rewriting code and managing disparate codebases.
The oneAPI Construction Kit is useful for anybody who designs hardware. To get you started, the Kit includes a reference implementation for Intel RISC V vector processors, although it is not confined to RISC-V and may be modified for a variety of processors.
Codeplay Enhances the oneAPI Construction Kit with RISC-V Support
The rapidly expanding open standard instruction set architecture (ISA) known as RISC-V is compatible with all sorts of processors, including accelerators and CPUs. Axelera, Codasip, and others make Intel RISC V processors for a variety of applications. RISC-V-powered microprocessors are also being developed by the EU as part of the European Processor Initiative.
At Codeplay, has been long been pioneers in open ecosystems, and as a part of RISC-V International, its’ve worked on the project for a number of years, leading working groups that have helped to shape the standard. Nous realize that building a genuinely open environment starts with open, standards-based hardware. But in order to do that, must also need open hardware, open software, and open source from top to bottom.
This is where oneAPI and SYCL come in, offering an ecosystem of open-source, standards-based software libraries for applications of various kinds, such oneMKL or oneDNN, combined with a well-developed programming architecture. Both SYCL and oneAPI are heterogeneous, which means that you may create code once and use it on any GPU AMD, Intel, NVIDIA, or, as of late, RISC-V without being restricted by the manufacturer.
Intel initially implemented RISC-V native host for both native on-host and cross-compilation with the most recent 4.0 version of the oneAPI Construction Kit. Because of this capability, programs may be executed on a CPU and benefit from the acceleration that SYCL offers via data parallelism. With the oneAPI Construction Kit, Intel RISC V processor designers can now effortlessly connect SYCL and the oneAPI ecosystem with their hardware, marking a major step toward realizing the vision of a completely open hardware and software stack.
