Nov. 17, 2025 –
The European Processor Initiative (EPI) https://www.european-processor-initiative.eu/, a project with 30 partners from 10 European countries, with the goal of achieving Europe’s independence in HPC chip technologies and infrastructure, is nearing the finishing line, at the end of a two-stage run.
The project team will attend the Supercomputing 25, premier global event in the HPC and AI fields, to be held from November 16-21 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. As a part of the EPI team at the booth #4410, Proactive Compute, a new spin-off from University of Zagreb’s Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (UNIZG-FER), will be ready to discuss and showcase two of its key IP’s FAUST and FEVER.
FAUST is a high-performance, pipelined floating-point unit (FPU) IP designed for integration into RISC-V cores with vector processing capabilities. Some key advantages of FAUST are:
Its advanced 2.0 version achieved significant area reduction while preserving a comprehensive feature set and full standards compliance. It has a configurable manual placement of pipeline registers to ensure an optimally segmented pipeline, eliminating the unpredictable and sub-optimal results from automatic retiming from synthesis tools.
FEVER, a UVM-based RISC-V FPU verification environment that complements FPU design. It is a SystemVerilog DPI wrapper which integrates FEVER into the UVM scoreboard to evaluate UUT’s outputs.
“We are thrilled to present FEVER and FAUST at SC25, marking a significant step forward in our mission to advance high-performance computing,” said Dr. Mario KovaÄ, Founder and CEO of Proactive Compute. “Designing and delivering advanced computational units to power the next generation of RISC-V processors has been both a complex and inspiring journey. FAUST, now silicon-proven and validated through several strategic EU-funded projects, exemplifies our commitment to innovation and technical excellence — and is now available for licensing from Proactive Compute.”
“The European Processor Initiative (EPI) proudly celebrates the launch of Proactive Compute, a company it helped bring to life. Through the FAUST and FEVER IPs now marketed by Proactive Compute, EPI continues to demonstrate not only its capacity for cutting-edge innovation but also its ability to translate technological breakthroughs into real-world impact. Together, EPI and Proactive Compute are reinforcing Europe’s leadership in high-performance computing (HPC) and AI processor technologies—guided by European values and committed to advancing the continent’s long-term strategic interests,” explains Eric Monchalin, Chair of the EPI Board.
For more comprehensive details about FAUST and FEVER, please visit Proactive Compute website http://www.proactivecompute.com/.
About EPI
The European Processor Initiative (EPI) is a project whose aim is to design and implement a roadmap for a new family of low-power European processors for extreme scale computing, high-performance Big-Data and a range of emerging applications.
The project has received funding from the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (JU) under Framework Partnership Agreement No 800928 and Specific Grant Agreement No 101036168 (EPI SGA2). The JU receives support from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme and from Croatia, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland.