Technology Innovation Institute, Khalifa University, Global Partners achieve breakthrough in RISC-V-based UAV Systems

Technology Innovation Institute, Khalifa University, Global Partners achieve breakthrough in RISC-V-based UAV Systems

- Historic milestone marks crucial turning point in UAE’s journey to realizing potential of home-grown RISC-V based UAV systems

- Global partners on pilot System-on-Chip ‘Shaheen’ research program include University of Bologna, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, New York University Abu Dhabi, Cadence Design Systems, Siemens EDA, and Global Foundries

- ‘Shaheen’, the first-of-its-kind program to be conceptualized and designed in the UAE by TII’s SSRC, Khalifa University’s SoCL and partners

Abu Dhabi-UAE: In collaboration with multiple university and industry partners, the Technology Innovation Institute (TII), a leading global scientific research center and the applied research pillar of Abu Dhabi’s Advanced Technology Research Council (ATRC), today announced that its Secure Systems Research Center (SSRC) has marked a watershed in progressing the country’s first Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC-V) based System-on-Chip (SoC) research.

Through multiple local and global partnerships including those with the System-on-Chip Lab (SoCL) at Khalifa University of Science and Technology (KU), University of Bologna, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, New York University Abu Dhabi, Cadence Design Systems, Siemens EDA, and Global Foundries, SSRC successfully developed ‘Shaheen’, the first-of-its-kind program to be conceptualized and designed in the UAE. The test chip serves as a drone flight controller for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles