ALISO VIEJO, Calif.,
April 17, 2018 /PRNewswire/
-- Microsemi Corporation (Nasdaq: MSCC), a leading
provider of semiconductor solutions differentiated by power,
security, reliability and performance, today announced Antmicro, an
international research and development company known for its work
with emerging technologies in embedded and cyber-physical systems,
has joined Microsemi's Mi-V™ RISC-V ecosystem. As the maker of the
open source Renode framework for multi-node simulation, Antmicro
has implemented support for Microsemi's Mi-V, RISC-V-based soft
central processing units (CPUs) and the solution's integration with
Microsemi's SoftConsole software development environment, enabling
a vastly improved, test-driven software development methodology for
all Mi-V users.
As part of their collaboration within the Mi-V ecosystem,
Antmicro and Microsemi developed and tested software for Mi-V
RISC-V processor subsystems. These were specially designed for
Microsemi's lowest power, cost-optimized mid-range PolarFire® field
programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), which are binary compatible to
hardware, even before hardware is available. In addition to
expanding Microsemi's Mi-V ecosystem, as well as the adoption of
its PolarFire FPGAs, the collaboration improves the development
experience and quality of Mi-V-based systems.
"Antmicro and its innovative Renode platform are excellent
additions to Microsemi's Mi-V ecosystem and help us enhance our
RISC-V design offerings for customers," said Venki Narayanan, senior director of system
architecture and embedded solutions at Microsemi. "The Renode
system brings rapid development and debug capabilities to our
customers developing soft processors on our award-winning PolarFire
FPGA. We look forward to further collaborations with the team at
Antmicro, as well as the continued expansion of our ecosystem's
overall portfolio of solutions."
Customers can design and debug a complete processor subsystem
within Antmicro's virtual Renode environment on their desktop
without actually needing target hardware. The resultant output is
binary compatible to the processor running in the PolarFire FPGA.
Antmicro's Renode technology makes it ideal for a variety of
RISC-V-based applications within the aerospace and defense,
security, communications, industrial, medical and internet of
things (IoT) markets, including secure communications, flight
controls, machine vision, image processing, wireless
communications, building automation and factory automation.
"Renode has been designed to revolutionize the way we develop
sophisticated embedded systems," said Michael Gielda, business development manager at
Antmicro. "A business-friendly open source project coming from a
software-driven embedded design house, Renode is the perfect match
for both the Mi-V ecosystem, and the RISC-V technology in general.
We are proud to be bringing advanced development tools for
Microsemi's Mi-V to the wider developer community."
As part of Microsemi's Mi-V RISC-V ecosystem, Antmicro's Renode
platform offers multiple connected virtual devices (multi-node)
setups within the same simulated environment, bypassing the
limitations associated with single device solutions like those from
competitors. Using C#, a high productivity programming platform,
and advanced abstraction layers, the solution boasts
ease-of-development for customers without the hassle of C
programming. In addition, it offers full visibility of the
simulated platform enabling better insight and increased security,
and is open source to allow for unlimited integrations,
modifications and additions, as well as easy bundling and
distribution to customers—particularly those leveraging Microsemi's
SoftConsole. For more information about the open source project,
visit https://renode.io and https://github.com/renode/renode.
Additional features include:
- Business-friendly MIT license (also
known as the X11 license or MIT X license) with commercial support
provided by Antmicro
- Teamwork supporting features, such as state saving and event
recording
- Automatic testing frameworks and continuous integration
- Extensive application program interfaces (APIs), allowing easy
integration with external tools
- Rapid prototyping of complex setups, including multi-node use
case, enabling multi-node debugging
- Software-agnostic, run binary-compatible firmware like those on
hardware, but with additional features
- Easy model development with high-level programming
environment
- Well-structured API, plugins and extensions model for easy
integration
- Runtime reconfiguration and layers structure, ensuring
sensitive information is isolated
- Continuous integration and improved development workflows
- Ease of implementation of test cases, allowing for greater test
coverage
About RISC-V
RISC-V, an instruction set architecture (ISA) which is a standard
open architecture under the governance of the RISC-V Foundation,
offers numerous benefits, including portability as well as enabling
the open source community to test and improve cores at a faster
pace than closed ISAs. As the ISA is frozen, software which is
written will always run on the RISC-V core, and since the RISC-V IP
core is not encrypted, it can be used to ensure trust and
certifications not possible with closed architectures.
About Microsemi's Mi-V Ecosystem
Microsemi's Mi-V ecosystem, part of Microsemi's Accelerate
Ecosystem—a program designed to reduce time to market for end
customers and time to revenue for ecosystem participants—brings
together a number of industry leaders involved in the development
of RISC-V to leverage their capabilities and streamline RISC-V
designs for customers. Enabling third parties to access a growing
platform for further RISC-V adoption and innovation, the Mi-V
ecosystem provides firmware and hardware engineers a comprehensive
ecosystem from a tier-one vendor.
Product Availability
Antmicro's Renode platform is available now and can be downloaded
at https://github.com/renode/renode/releases/latest.
About Microsemi
Microsemi Corporation (Nasdaq: MSCC) offers a comprehensive
portfolio of semiconductor and system solutions for aerospace &
defense, communications, data center and industrial markets.
Products include high-performance and radiation-hardened analog
mixed-signal integrated circuits, FPGAs, SoCs and ASICs; power
management products; timing and synchronization devices and precise
time solutions, setting the world's standard for time; voice
processing devices; RF solutions; discrete components; enterprise
storage and communication solutions, security technologies and
scalable anti-tamper products; Ethernet solutions;
Power-over-Ethernet ICs and midspans; as well as custom design
capabilities and services. Microsemi is headquartered in
Aliso Viejo, California and has
approximately 4,800 employees globally. Learn more at
www.microsemi.com.
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