The free and open nature of the RISC-V ISA fosters unprecedented levels of processor innovation. To harness this design freedom, the ecosystem requires robust development tools and the assurance that verification test benches can be developed and validated on supplier-neutral platforms. Imperas’ new riscvOVPsim is an important suite of tools that addresses this challenge.

The integration of HES with OVPsim enables hardware and software design teams to implement virtual models of processors, memory and peripherals while the RTL modules run in the emulator board. This new integration provides a high performance solution, ideal for early HW/SW co-development and architectural exploration.