RISC-V Foundation | Instruction Set Architecture (ISA)

RISC-V: The Free and Open RISC Instruction Set Architecture

RISC-V is a free and open ISA enabling a new era of processor innovation through open standard collaboration. Born in academia and research, RISC-V ISA delivers a new level of free, extensible software and hardware freedom on architecture, paving the way for the next 50 years of computing design and innovation.

RISC-V Ecosystem News

EE Times Article: Healthy Discussion of Architectural Choices

July 11, 2018

Innovation in the software industry has benefited tremendously from open-source software and open APIs. Open-source software amplifies the capabilities of small teams by...

EDN Article: AI Hardware Acceleration Needs Careful Requirements Planning

July 11, 2018

The explosion of artificial intelligence (AI) applications, from cloud-based big data crunching to edge-based keyword recognition and image analysis, has experts scrambling to...

UltraSoC Blog: RISC-V Is About To Open The Door To A Wave Of New Chip Startups In India

July 11, 2018

CTO Gajinder Panesar looks ahead to the RISC-V Workshop in Chennai and the opportunity for India.Last year, we suggested that there’s a growing appetite in China for RISC-V, a...

SiFive: Terminus Circuits Brings Complete ASIC Solutions To DesignShare

July 10, 2018

SiFive, the leading provider of commercial RISC-V processor IP, today announced that Terminus Circuits, a provider of interconnect solutions, has joined the expanding DesignShare...

EDA Café Interview of Rick O’Connor at DAC 2018

July 9, 2018

Sanjay Gangal from EDA Café interviews RISC-V Foundation Executive Director Rick O’Connor at DAC 2018. In the interview, the two discuss the beginning of the RISC-V ISA, the...

RISC-V Foundation Members

Founded in 2015, the RISC-V Foundation comprises more than 100 member organizations building the first open, collaborative community of software and hardware innovators powering innovation at the edge forward. Through various events and the Foundation's Workshops, the RISC-V Foundation is changing the way the industry works together and collaborates – creating a new kind of open hardware and software ecosystem. Become a member today and help pioneer the industry’s future de facto ISA for design innovation

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