Ashling announce RiscFree™ support for MachineWare’s SIM-V RISC-V Instruction Set Simulator.

Limerick, Ireland. 29th May 2023.

Ashling announced today that Ashling’s RiscFree SDK now provides target debug support for MachineWare’s SIM-V RISC-V Instruction Set Simulator.

RiscFree is Ashling’s SDK including an IDE, compiler, libraries and debugger and provides software development and debug 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 have made it the go-to choice for 32-bit and 64-bit RISC-V software development.

Figure 1: RiscFree connected to MachineWare SIM-V

“We are excited to offer our customers target debug support for the MachineWare SIM-V simulator” said Hugh O’Keeffe, CEO of Ashling. “This collaboration between Ashling and MachineWare enables developers to accelerate their RISC-V software development, testing, and debugging, ultimately leading to faster time-to-market for RISC-V-based products.”

MachineWare’s SIM-V is a RISC-V simulator that enables developers to test and verify RISC-V based systems and software applications. The simulator provides a high-performance Instruction Set Simulator (ISS) that supports all RISC-V standard extensions, including privileged ISA and custom instructions. The intuitive SIM-V extension allows quick addition of custom instructions and registers to SIM-V to get immediate feedback on design choices.

“MachineWare is excited to work with Ashling to bring this solution to the RISC-V community” said Lukas Jünger, Managing Director with MachineWare. “The combination of Ashling’s RiscFree SDK and MachineWare’s SIM-V simulator provides developers with a powerful and flexible solution for simulation-based RISC-V software development, enabling them to develop high-quality applications more efficiently and begin target debug before hardware availability.”

Ashling’s RiscFree SDK with support for the SIM-V simulator is now available and for more information, please visit the Ashling website at https://www.ashling.com/ashling-riscv for more on our RISC-V tools.