Silicon Valley, November 2nd, 2021. Ashling announced plans for the OpenHW CORE-V Development Kit.
The OpenHW CORE-V group are currently developing a range of open-source, RISC-V ISA based cores known as CORE-V. As an OpenHW member, Ashling is actively involved in defining and implementing a CORE-V Development Kit which includes a reference board built around a CORE-V MCU and an SDK containing everything needed to develop software for the board.
One cool feature of the CORE-V MCU is that it has on-board FPGA fabric allowing developers to accelerate or turbo-charge applications by implementing key functionality in “hardware.” The SDK will provide open-source Symbiflow tools to support this. This creates a safe sandbox for software developers to experiment with Verilog and maximize performance.
Our overriding goal is to make the Kit “Plug & Play” (or “out-of-the-box” for those who remember shrink-wrapped software). The aim is to have users up and running in minutes—whether downloading and running a simple blinky example or building a CORE-V C Edge AI application utilizing an on-board FPGA-based neural network accelerator.
Ashling has been a leading provider of Embedded Development Tools & Services since 1982 with design centres in Limerick, Ireland and Chennai, India and sales and support offices worldwide. With over thirty years of experience, Ashling develops tools for embedded systems engineers including Debug Probes, High-speed Trace Probes, and Reference Boards supporting a broad range of MCU, SoC, and Soft (FPGA)-based designs. Its software tools include SDKs, IDEs, Debuggers, Compilers, and Simulators, supporting all major embedded architectures including RISC-V, Arm, Synopsys ARC, MIPS, Power Architecture, and DSPs through the RiscFree™ platform. Ashling is the first company to bring tools to market supporting heterogeneous debug of RISC-V cores alongside cores from other vendors (e.g., Arm Cortex cores). Visit www.ashling.com for more details.
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