Processors using the open standard RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA) are becoming more and more common, with an estimated 30% of SoCs designed in 2023 containing at least one RISC-V core. Whether licensing RISC-V IP and adding custom instructions, using open-source RISC-V IP, or building a RISC-V processor from scratch, verification of RISC-V processors is a task in the SoC project plan. With the variety of sources for the processor IP, the range of complexity and the span of use cases, a one-size-fits-all approach to RISC-V processor verification does not work.
