Imperas Software Ltd is now offering the latest product updates as a universal release to all customers and users. These latest additions extend the scope of the RISC V project based on the Open Standard RISC V ISA, designed to optimize solutions in applications from microcontrollers and application processors to AI, ML and HPC multicore arrays. As an open source reference model and commercial product freely available by the RISC-V community, they now support newly approved extensions: bit-manipulation, cryptography (scalars) and vectors, and privilege specification enhancements.
These simulation products and tools are supported by open source processors and platform models licensed under Apache 2.0 through the Open Virtual Platform Program and available at OVPworld.org. To facilitate rapid development of virtual platforms/prototypes, these models and platforms can be modified and extended as needed. Imperas commercial simulation technology and products are based on a freely available open standard public OVP application programming interface (API). The full family of more than 300 processor models is based on more than 12 ISAs to support heterogeneous designs or migrate other architectures to RISC V projects.
Imperas RISC-V Reference model is used for risC-V processors and virtual platform/prototype design validation (DV) to support software development and testing throughout the design cycle. The RISC-V community supports a variety of free to use options, including riscvOVPsim, riscvOVPsimPlus, and riscvOVPsimCOREV. In addition, Imperas Business solutions offer specialized support and additional capabilities for more complex designs. They can also be integrated into other standard EDA environments, such as SystemC, SystemVerilog, and well-known simulation and simulation tools from Cadence, Siemens EDA, and Synopsys, as well as cloud-based simulation products from Metrics Technologies.
The ISA specification is probably the most important interface in computer science; Defining the boundary between the software program and the underlying hardware, Simon Davidmann, CEO of Imperas Software said:"RISC-V was the first widely adopted open standard ISA, with many independent implementations. Unlike the single-source development of the past, RISC-V is community-based and has both open source and private commercial backers. Today, we are pleased to announce that Imperas simulation technology and models are ready to support the fully approved specification, along with all prior major revisions, and we will continue to support users."
