Compiler Toolchains

Ashling, in partnership with Embecosm, delivers complete compiler toolchain solutions with a focus on GNU GCC and LLVM. Together, we help customers accelerate time to market by providing robust, optimized, and production-ready toolchains tailored to their hardware and application needs.

GNU GCC Overview

Our Expertise

  • Toolchain Components: GCC and LLVM compilers, linkers, assemblers, binutils, and runtime libraries; debugger integration including GDB, LLDB, OpenOCD, Eclipse CDT, and Visual Studio Code.
  • Optimization & Verification: Advanced compiler and linker optimization for speed, power and code size, microarchitecture-aware tuning (pipeline, cache, branch prediction), benchmarking and performance analysis (SPEC, Embench, CoreMark), and comprehensive testing on simulators, FPGA platforms, and silicon.
  • ISA & Libraries: Support for RISC-V, Arm, MIPS, ARC, DSP and AI processors; compiler and debugger support for custom ISA extensions; development of new runtime libraries and optimization of existing ones; targeted back-end support. 
  • Sanitizers & Security Hardening: Porting, optimizing, and validating compiler-based sanitizers (UBSAN, ASAN, stack canaries, CFI/KCFI, HWASAN) and exploit mitigations for customer architectures, with performance benchmarking, hardware validation, and upstream contributions for long-term maintainability.
  • Testing & Validation: Comprehensive compiler testing using the GCC test suite (300K+ tests) covering compile-time, execution-time, regression, binutils, and GDB; architecture-neutral tests with dedicated subsets for RISC-V, Arm, and others; execution on simulators and hardware; and development of targeted test cases for new features and bug fixes.
  • Compliance & Security: Upstreaming and quarterly update integration, certification and qualification (ISO26262, IEC61508), CVE identification and remediation.
CLANG/LLVM Overview.

A Proven Partnership

Embecosm’s expertise in compiler and AI toolchains perfectly complements Ashling’s embedded development tools and services, including IDEs, debuggers, SDKs, debug and trace probes, simulators (e.g. QEMU & Verilator) and development kits. Over more than eight years of partnership, Ashling has represented Embecosm on multiple toolchain projects, many focused-on RISC-V architectures. Together we operate globally from offices in the US, India, UK, Ireland, France, and Germany, serving customers from Tier-1 semiconductor companies to start-ups in stealth mode. Joint customers to date include companies such as: Akeana, Altera (Intel), Cadence, OpenHW Group, RISE, Rivos, Tenstorrent and Western Digital.  

Book an engineer-to-engineer call with Ashling and Embecosm to learn how we can help with your compiler and toolchain needs. Just email engineer@ashling.com .