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LowRISC

Brief Overview

lowRISC is a not-for-profit company using collaborative engineering to develop and maintain open source silicon designs and tools, through a unique combination of skills, expertise and vision.

Ibex (formerly known as zero-riscy) is a small 32 bit RISC-V core. With its two-stage pipeline and support for the RV32IMC instruction set Ibex is ideally suited as control core in many embedded scenarios. Ibex is a high-quality core: together with the RTL, lowRISC provides full UVM-based verification, extensive documentation and all the tools to successfully integrate Ibex into designs.

The OVP models of the LowRISC processor cores and platforms are available to download from OVPworld at www.OVPworld.org/ip-vendor-lowrisc.

Partner Type
Silicon and IP Providers
Website URL
LowRISC
Weight
3

Comments

  • Chuanhua Chang, Chair of RISC-V International P Extension Task Group

    Andes Technology Corp.

    Flexibility within a framework of compatibility is the essential foundation of the RISC-V ISA.

    The RISC-V P extension defines a rich set of integer SIMD/DSP instructions operating on existing integer registers to support complex data processing within the constraints of real-time applications. However, the hardware specification is just the start - adoption and success depend on the software ecosystem, which is supported with the reference models and test suites from Imperas.

  • Gerard Rauwerda, CTO

    Recore Systems

    Imperas allowed us to quickly add our own components and build the topologies which we wanted to test. We had our first demo up and running in 20 minutes, and it took us just a few days to build a reference hardware architecture based on components in the Extendable Platform Kit (EPK). Last but not least, after just a few months we could start playing with our own many-core operating system on our many-core hardware design. The ease of use of the EPK, together with excellent Imperas documentation and support, have kick-started our FlexaWare platform development.