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Theme fund: NGI0 Commons Fund
Start: 2026-04

NVE

Co-simulation framework for hardware designers

NVE (Nebula Verification Environment) is an open-source co-simulation framework, that lets hardware designers verify their RTL implementations against a software reference model with cycle-accurate checking and time-travel debugging. The engine is architecture-agnostic and ships with a RISC-V reference model. The grant funds its extraction into a standalone, documented library usable by the broader open-source hardware community.

Run by Nebula Microsystems

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This project was funded through the NGI0 Commons Fund, a fund established by NLnet with financial support from the European Commission's Next Generation Internet programme, under the aegis of DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology under grant agreement No 101135429. Additional funding is made available by the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI).