Open source chip design: The big picture of RISC-V ecosystem is emerging

With the availability of open source processor architecture RISC-V for the worldwide chip design community and the industry, we are seeing a continuous rise in the launch of new semiconductor chips powered by RISC-V processor cores all the way from simple commercial grade IoT MCU chips to functional safety automotive to aero-space grade high-rel processor chips. In this article we try to provide you design software/tools companies offering product and support service to RISC-V based chip designs from small companies to biggest chip design experts such as Intel. The whole chip industry is embracing RISC-V. The growth of ecosystem around RISC-V is like a rising tide. RISC-V development platforms: Alibaba owned China focused semiconductor chip design business called T-HEAD launched chip development platform to develop open source RISC V based SoC chips. T-HEAD while offering its own AI SOC chip for edge computing, it also develops and owns set of processor Ips. It has adopted open source RISC-V based processor architecture extensively. T-HEAD is a very China based company having offices only China and looks like it intend to support mainly China based chip developers on RISC V based SOC chip development by offering a development platform called Wujian 600. However it has hardly given any particulars on its website in English language on any further details of its...