Pasquale Davide Schiavone
Pasquale Davide Schiavone (Davide) is a Scientist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) and Director of Engineering of the OpenHW Group. He was previously working in the ESL lab at EPFL as a PostDoc from 2022 to 2025. He obtained the Ph.D. title at the Integrated Systems Laboratory of ETH Zurich in the Digital Systems group in 2020 and the BSc. and MSc. from "Politecnico di Torino" in computer engineering in 2013 and 2016, respectively. His main activities are the RISC-V CPU design and low-power energy-efficient heterogeneous computer architectures for smart embedded systems and edge-computing devices.
Since the Ph.D., he delivers training workshops to companies and universities.
A list of his publications is available at https://scholar.google.ch/citations?user=mfZQ9zUAAAAJ&hl=en
My GitHub: https://github.com/davideschiavone
Session
This work presents X-HEEP, an open-source RISC-V System-on-Chip (SoC) platform designed to lower the barrier to chip design for research and education, providing a configurable and extensible infrastructure that enables rapid development of custom RISC-V-based SoCs and hardware accelerators. The platform demonstrates how open ecosystems can accelerate silicon innovation and enable new academic chip design activities. In addition, X-HEEP illustrates how open hardware fosters collaboration between universities and industry, strengthens education in VLSI design, and contributes to broader European initiatives to advance semiconductor capabilities and technological sovereignty.