2026-06-11 –, Plenary
To address the lack of hardware sovereignty in proprietary console ecosystems, this paper presents a fully open-source RISC-V gaming platform utilizing a VexRiscv core and Lattice ECP5 FPGA. We implemented a custom SoC featuring dedicated 2D GPU and APU accelerators, supported by a complete LLVM-based toolchain and a high-level Game Development Framework API. Validation through a 48-hour game jam demonstrated the platform’s utility, achieving a stable 640 × 480 at 60 FPS output and high power efficiency for independent development.
He received the Diploma and PhD degree in electrical engineering from the Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany, in 2011 and 2017, respectively. From 2011 to 2017 he was a researcher at the Microelectronic Systems Design Research Group of RPTU Kaiserslautern. Since 2017 he is with the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering in Kaiserslautern as Expert Engineer for virtual hardware engineering. In 2018, he received the EDAA Outstanding Dissertation Award for this work. At Fraunhofer IESE in Kaiserslautern, he has been leading many research and industrial projects in the area of embedded systems since 2017 and has published more than 100 papers in relevant journals and conference proceedings. Since 2023, he is professor at the University of Würzburg. Matthias Jung's scientific focus is on embedded and autonomous systems, especially with a focus on memory architectures, functional safety, and virtual product development of embedded systems through virtual platforms and simulations.