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

cnBeta Article: The Story Of “China Core” Under The RISC-V Framework

August 20, 2019

Red Hat, a well-known enterprise open-source software and solution provider acquired by IBM, joined the RISC-V Foundation. At the end of last year, the RISC-V Foundation and the...

Elektronik Article: HotChips 2019: ETH Zurich Takes Floating-Point Arithmetic To A New Level

August 20, 2019

NTX is the name given to a hardware accelerator that ETH Zurich has developed for floating-point arithmetic. With 260 Gflops / W, the chip implemented in 22nm FD-SOI offers...

AB Open Article: Researchers Publish Roadmap For RISC-V Opportunities In Space Tech

August 20, 2019

Researchers at the Delft University of Technology have published a roadmap which seeks to maximize the potential of the open RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA) for space...

How the European Processor Initiative is Leveraging RISC-V for the Future of Supercomputing

August 20, 2019

By Calista Redmond, CEO of the RISC-V FoundationWe wanted to shine a spotlight on the European Processor Initiative (EPI), the project financed under the EU Horizon 2020 program,...

Semiconductor Engineering Article: Week In Review: Design, Low Power

August 16, 2019

Check out upcoming semiconductor conferences and events: Hot Chips will be held Aug. 18-21 at Stanford University, CA, while Western Digital will hold a RISC-V meetup Aug. 21 in...

RISC-V Foundation Members

Founded in 2015, the RISC-V Foundation comprises more than 275 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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