The industry is excited about RISC-V, and rightly so. It is enabling companies to take back control of their software execution environment without having to assume the huge responsibilities that come along with processor development and support of an ecosystem for it. Maybe a company wants to use a commercially developed core today, get the software developed and the processor integrated and then in a future generation, replace that with their own core. Perhaps they envision a range of products where the processor is tuned for each product in the family. There are so many possibilities that were out of reach in the past. (more…)
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Posts Tagged ‘RISC-V’
PSS and RISC-V – A Match Made In Verification
Thursday, November 14th, 2019What Can PSS Do For You? See Breker’s Demos of Trek5’s Capabilities at DVCon
Thursday, February 21st, 2019All of us at Breker invite DVCon attendees to step into our booth (#701) and expect to be amazed. You will see practical demonstrations of our new feature-rich Trek5 with practical examples of how the Portable Stimulus Standard can be applied to accelerate UVM coding for complex blocks and Software Driven Verification (SDV) for large SoCs. (more…)
Guest Post: Open Source Requires Open Minds, Especially in EDA Verification
Wednesday, July 20th, 2016Few recent announcements in the EDA, IP, or semiconductor industries have had the impact of SoftBank’s proposed US$32B acquisition of ARM. Many commentators have weighed in on this news. Today’s guest blogger, OneSpin Solutions Vice President of Marketing David Kelf, shares some thoughts on how changes to the ARM universe might intersect with ongoing changes in the open source community:
One side effect of the ARM acquisition news was an increase in the debate on the fascinating RISC-V Open Source processor development. Clearly this has the interest of a number of significant ARM users, judging by the recent workshop at MIT last week as one example, and might represent a significant game changer. It also begs the question on the application of Open Source, and indeed standardization efforts in general, in verification and how programs in this area might change the dynamics of increasingly closed environments from the two largest EDA vendors. (more…)
