October 17, 2023, Chennai, India and Limerick, Ireland. Fabless processor core IP provider InCore Semiconductors and embedded tools developer Ashling today announced support for the Azurite family of RISC-V processor cores from InCore in Ashling’s RiscFree software development kit (SDK) and Opella-XD Debug Probe.
RiscFree is Ashling’s SDK including an IDE, compiler and debugger and provides software development, debug & trace support for RISC-V. Since its introduction, Ashling’s RiscFree SDK has been steadily building market share within the embedded tools market and is particularly strong in the RISC-V market where its ease-of-use, broad functionality, plug-in architecture and real-time trace support have made it the go-to choice for 32-bit and 64-bit RISC core software development.
InCore’s Azurite family of cores is an extremely efficient implementation of the RISC-V ISA, optimised for very low area and power. The Azurite family supports multiple RISC-V ISA extensions like PSIMD, bit manipulation, floating point and integer-multiply-divide. Azurite can be used in traditional 8-bit and 32-bit applications such as sensor fusion, wearables, motor control, smart IoT and analog mixed signal processing.
“Ashling has been a great partner with their comprehensive toolchain that empowers developers in their adoption of RISC-V. Enabling Ashling’s IDE and debug probes on our processors helps our customers develop solutions and get to market faster with InCore’s RISC-V offerings.” – Niraj Sharma, Chief Product Officer at InCore.
“We’re delighted to now include support for InCore’s Azurite RISC-V core and both our engineering teams are lined up for further collaboration ensuring upcoming Azurite core debug and trace features are supported as they become available.” – Hugh O’Keeffe, CEO of Ashling.
Ashling RiscFree SDK support includes:
For more information on Ashling’s RiscFree see: Ashling RiscFree SDK and for details on InCore’s Azurite RISC-V core visit InCore Azurite Core.
Ashling has been a leading provider of Embedded Development Tools & Services since 1982, with design centers in Limerick, Ireland and Kochi, India and sales and support offices in Europe, Asia Pacific, the Middle East, and America. The company has a particular focus on RISC-V and is the first to bring tools to the market supporting the heterogeneous debugging of RISC-V cores along with other cores from multiple vendors. Visit www.ashling.com for more details.
InCore Semiconductors is a fabless core IP & chip design startup building fully customizable RISC-V cores and reference SoCs, to create high-performance, low-power, and cost-effective solutions for a variety of embedded applications. The founding team at InCore was previously responsible for the creation of Shakti – India’s first indigenously designed microprocessor, at the RISE lab at IIT Madras.
The RISC-V open architecture ISA is under the governance of RISC-V International. Visit
https://riscv.org for more details.
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