Rae Parnmukh
Rae Parnmukh is Director of IP Product Operations at Tenstorrent, where she focuses on enabling high-performance compute through RISC-V and AI IP and close hardware–software co-development.
Session
06-10
10:30
10min
A Doom Demo Journey: Tenstorrent's Ascalon CPU on Synopsys emulation and prototyping systems
Dongjie Xie, Brandon Zupan, Rae Parnmukh
This paper tells the incremental journey of taking Tenstorrent’s Ascalon RISC‑V CPU IP from RTL and emulation to a playable DOOM demo on a Synopsys’s prototyping platform. Along the way we describe the problems we overcame, and how we optimized our flows and the design. We close with a set of lessons and recommendations for teams who want to use emulation and prototyping and realistic workloads like DOOM to de‑risk RISC‑V IP adoption and accelerate hardware/software co‑design.
Non-Blind submission
Poster Island C