RISC-V Ecosystem News

IAR Systems, a supplier of software tools and services for embedded development, has announced a new version of the toolchain IAR Embedded Workbench for RISC-V.Version 1.11 adds support for custom extensions as well as further enhanced optimisations for code execution speed.article: http://www.newelectronics.co.uk/electronics-news/iar-systems-updates-risc-v-development-tools/219220/

One of the key benefits of using RISC-V is the flexibility of the architecture that allows OEMs and SoC vendors to develop custom cores with the exact specifications required by the application or product. With support for custom enhancements, IAR Systems enables these companies to fully leverage all of the embedded development toolchain capabilities to build applications based on custom cores.article (in German): https://www.elektroniknet.de/markt-technik/embedded/update-der-risc-v-entwicklungs-tools-169139.html

MIT’s work on carbon nanotube field-effect transistors validates a promising path towards practical beyond-silicon electronic systems. Researchers at MIT have succeeded in building a 16-bit RISC-V microprocessor using carbon nanotube transistors using industry-standard design flows and processes and offering 10 times more energy efficiency than silicon microprocessor.With silicon no longer following historical scaling trends, there’s been considerable research in beyond-silicon nanotechnologies. Carbon nanotube field-effect transistor (CNFET)-based digital circuits offer one…

In this article, Western Digital’s Ted Marena explores the reasons companies have and the process they go through when integrating the open process instruction set architecture RISC-V. article: https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/industry-articles/journey-of-riscv-implementation/

The Ada programming language was born in the mid-1970s, when the US Department of Defense (DoD) and the UK’s Ministry Of Defence sought to replace the hundreds of specialized programming languages used for the embedded computer systems that increasingly made up essential parts of military projects.  Instead, Ada was designed to be be a single language, capable of running on all of those embedded systems, that offered the same or…

IAR Systems®, the future-proof supplier of software tools and services for embedded development, announces that a new version of the toolchain IAR Embedded Workbench® for RISC-V is now available. Version 1.11 adds support for custom extensions as well as further enhanced optimizations for code execution speed. One of the major benefits of using RISC-V is the flexibility the architecture provides, which enables OEMs as well as SoC vendors to design…

Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and system-on-chip (SoC) FPGAs can be used to accelerate prototyping and other development steps for mission-critical defense products, which often require functions such as secure communications, trusted intellectual property (IP), inspection of register transfer level (RTL) source code for certification, antitamper requirements, supply chain assurance, and more. To meet these challenges, the best choice is not an FPGA with a specific processor, but one integrating the…

Researchers at MIT have succeeded in building a 16-bit RISC-V microprocessor using carbon nanotube transistors using industry-standard design flows and processes and offering 10 times more energy efficiency than silicon microprocessor.article: https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1335098#