The first RISC-V Real-Time Platform for Automotive
What RT-Europa is: three layers, one standard
RT-Europa is the stack where every layer of the design can align on the same foundation.
RT-Europa Profile
Defines real-time and application CPU behavior: RISC-V ISA and non-ISA specifications, privileged modes, deterministic memory access with specific memory protection (PMP) mechanisms, and optimized context switching and interrupt handling to reduce latency and jitter.
Platform 1/2 – Hardware
A common set of capabilities, baseline performance targets, and compliance requirements shared across implementations.
Platform 2/2 – Software Stack & Tools
Vendor-neutral frameworks, toolchains, and APIs, supporting software written against RT-Europa stay portable across RISC-V IP vendors.
Clear interfaces for debugging, safety, security, and virtualization are defined at every layer, designed to fit into real automotive systems.
Benefits
Validated reference architecture
Reduces time-to-market and integration risk versus building a real-time RISC-V subsystem from scratch.
Automotive ready
Designed from the ground up for safety, real-time performance, and scalability.
Integrated ecosystem
Combines software from six leading IP and tool vendors, so you’re not locked into a single supplier’s roadmap.
Flexible framework
Supports custom extensions and benchmarking, including validation against the Quintauris Test Automation Framework (QNTAF).
Use Cases
Real-Time CPU subsystems in SoCs
Deterministic performance inside complex, multi-core automotive silicon.
Safety Island
An isolated, real-time domain for safety-critical functions.
Domain Controller
A shared, standardized foundation for consolidating ECU functions.
Why RISC-V, Why Now
Automotive is consolidating toward domain and zonal architectures, and software-defined vehicles (SDVs) need a CPU foundation that’s open, interoperable, and not tied to a single vendor’s roadmap. RT-Europa gives the ecosystem a standardized path to RISC-V adoption, one that nurtures competition among IP vendors instead of locking OEMs into proprietary architectures, while still meeting automotive’s real-time and safety bar.
RT-Europa was developed by Quintauris to give the ecosystem that common ground.
FAQ
RT-Europa is a RISC-V real-time platform for automotive, developed by Quintauris. It defines a validated hardware, software, and profile architecture for real-time CPU subsystems, safety islands, and domain controllers.
OEMs, Tier-1 suppliers, and semiconductor/IP vendors building automotive SoCs that need deterministic, real-time RISC-V performance with cross-vendor interoperability
By providing a pre-validated reference architecture and a shared software stack, toolchain, and API layer. IPs from different vendors are enabled to interoperate rather than being integrated ad hoc.
RT-Europa builds on the open RISC-V ISA and standard. It defines a vendor-neutral profile and software layer that any compliant IP or tooling vendor can support.
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