Scope

The Toolchains SIG develops the strategy, identifies gaps, prioritizes tasks for the software development environment used to build the RISC-V software ecosystem.

 Goals

The SIG’s main goals are:

• Push RISC-V into open-source software

• Pull developers to the RISC-V ecosystem

• Advice on ISA extensions
  To achieve these goals the following steps are taken:
• Advice on ISA extensions and ensure that all future ISA extensions to be driven by demonstrable/quantifiable benefits and possible support them in development tools. Enable the SW HC to drive the ICs to develop extensions necessary to support the strategy.

• Identify and work with the key open-source projects for the RISC-V software ecosystem: compilers, debuggers, performance analysis tools, libraries implementing performance-primitives, and memory management libraries.

• Liaise between open-source compiler developers and RISC-V task groups defining ISA, profiling, and debug extensions.

• Reach out to developers and decision-makers to contribute to the RISC-V ecosystem.

• Promote RISC-V as an ISA to be used for research into novel compilation techniques.

• Track the support for RISC-V across development tools.

• Support benchmarking and work with benchmark organizations.

• Benchmark development tools for RISC-V and provide reporting to internal RISC-V committees on the relative progress of development tools targeting RISC-V.

• Provide access to the state-of-the-art development tools and compilation techniques for all RISC-V task groups by fostering an environment of cooperation between academia, open-source tool development, and the RISC-V ecosystem.

• Engage with new programming languages, programming paradigms, and development tool development towards the strategic goal of making RISC-V the prime choice ("First on RISC-V") for innovation in development tools.

Leadership History

Period	Chair	Vice-Chair
2023-2024	Christoph Müllner christoph.muellner@vrull.eu	George Chen george@rivosinc.com