Ashling will be attending the Embedded World Conference in Nuremberg (April 9–11) followed by the European RISC-V Summit in Munich (June 24–28) where we’ll be showcasing our latest embedded development tools & solutions, including:
- Ashling’s RiscFree™ SDK: A complete development environment for RISC-V which now includes our newRiscFree Visual Studio Code Extension,
offering full RISC-V development support within the Microsoft Visual Studio Code environment.(SDK Info)

- Vitra-XS Debug and Trace Probe: Designed for embedded development, this probe supports multiple target architectures, including RISC-V systems with N-Trace and E-Trace, and Arm systems using CoreSight™ trace technologies (ETM, PTM, etc.). It integrates seamlessly with Ashling’s enhanced RiscFree™ debugger, now featuring new Profiling, Code-coverage, and Dynamic Function-flow Timeline views.(Vitra-XS Info)
- Opella-XD and Opella-LD Debug Probes: Ideal for both single and multi-core, heterogeneous and homogeneous designs. (Opella-XD Info | Opella-LD Info)
- TraceLLM: Our AI-driven analysis engine designed by Ashling to enhance RISC-V based systems debug and trace exploration. Built to work seamlessly within Ashling’s RiscFree Debugger, TraceLLM offers unprecedented insights into your program’s real-time behaviour through an intelligent trace capture and analysis engine which can be queried using a natural-language, prompt-based interface. (TraceLLM Datasheet)
Some other highlights so far from 2024 include RiscFree C/C++ SDK support for:
- Newly launched processors such as Synopsys ARC-V, Codasip’s RISC-V-based L31 Core, and MIPS RISC-V ISA compatible P8700 and I8500 CPUs.
- Support for Altera’s Agilex™ 5 FPGA Family including debug support for the dual-core A55 and dual-core A76 Arm processors.
- Added source-level debug support for the Rust programming language with its focus on safety and concurrency.
- Ongoing work on CHERI technology integration (particularly for RISC-V), enhancing system security through hardware-level ISA-based protections.
Custom SDK Solutions
Struggling to make generic off-the-shelf SDKs work for your SoC? Let us create a custom solution tailored and optimized for your device’s unique features – whether that’s custom instruction extensions, specific pipelining or caching arrangements, hardware accelerators, CHERI support, or handling multiple heterogeneous or homogeneous cores.
Contact us for a complimentary consultation with our tool experts at sales@ashling.com and discover how our custom solutions—including Debuggers, IDEs, Compiler Toolchains, Simulators, Debug & Trace Probes, Reference Boards, OS/RTOS ports, and more—can perfectly fit your needs.
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