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RISC-V Software Ecosystem Overview
This document captures the status of the RISC-V Software Ecosystem. Please add
to the list and fix inaccuracies by making a Pull Request against the software list repository on GitHub .
We would like to enlist community help for the software ports in the Help Wanted section.
Test
Name
Links
License
Maintainers
riscvOVPsimPlus
website
Proprietary freeware
Imperas
DBT-RISE-RISCV
github
BSD 3-Clause
MINRES Technologies
FireSim
website , mailing list , github , ISCA 2018 Paper
BSD
Sagar Karandikar, Howard Mao, Donggyu Kim, David Biancolin, Alon Amid, Berkeley Architecture Research
gem5
SW-dev thread , repository
BSD-style
Alec Roelke (University of Virginia)
OVPsim
website , github
Proprietary (core simulation platform), Apache License (processor / platform model)
Imperas
jor1k
website , github
BSD 2-Clause
Sebastian Macke
Jupiter
github
GPL-3.0
Andrés Castellanos
MARSS-RISCV
github
MIT
Gaurav N Kothari, Parikshit P Sarnaik, Gokturk Yuksek (State University of New York at Binghamton)
QEMU
upstream
GPL
Sagar Karandikar (University of California, Berkeley), Bastian Koppelmann (University of Paderborn), Alex Suykov, Stefan O'Rear and Michael Clark (SiFive)
RARS
github
MIT
Benjamin Landers
Renode
website , github
MIT
Antmicro
Ripes
github
MIT
Morten Borup Petersen
RISC-V Virtual Prototype
website , github
MIT
Vladimir Herdt (University of Bremen, AGRA )
TinyEMU
website
MIT
Fabrice Bellard
Spike
github
BSD 3-clause
Andrew Waterman & Yunsup Lee (SiFive)
Swerv-ISS
github
GPL - 3
Joseph Rahmeh (Western Digital)
VLAB
VLAB Works
Proprietary
ASTC
WebRISC-V
github
BSD 3-clause
Gianfranco Mariotti, Roberto Giorgi (University of Siena)
PQSE
website
Proprietary
PQShield
riscv-rust
website github
MIT
Takahiro Aoyagi
terminus
github
MIT
Yang Li
Vulcan
github
MIT
Victor Miguel de Morais Costa
riscv-vm
github
MIT
Aidan Dodds
EmulsiV
Working Instance , GitHub
Open (MPL2.0 )
Guillaume Savaton
C compilers and libraries
Name
Links
License
Maintainers
GCC
Upstream , RISC-V repository
GPLv3
Andrew Waterman (SiFive), Palmer Dabbelt (Google), Jim Wilson (SiFive), Kito Cheng (SiFive)
GNU MCU Eclipse RISC-V Embedded GCC (riscv-non-embed-gcc)
Web , Repository , Build , Binary package installer
Eclipse Public License
Liviu lonescu
Clang/LLVM
Upstream
Apache 2.0
Alex Bradbury (lowRISC)
CompCert
Upstream
INRIA Non-Commercial License Agreement
Xavier Leroy
Glibc
Upstream , RISC-V repository
GPLv2
Palmer Dabbelt (Google), Andrew Waterman (SiFive), DJ Delorie (Red Hat), Darius Rad(Bluespec)
Newlib
Upstream , RISC-V repository
GPLv2
Kito Cheng (SiFive)
SEGGER Runtime Library
Website
SEGGER commercial license
SEGGER
SEGGER Floating Point Library
Website
SEGGER commercial license
SEGGER
Musl
GitHub
MIT
-
Green Hills Optimizing C/C++ Compilers
Website
Proprietary
Green Hills
OpenArkCompiler (MAPLE)
Upstream
MulanPSL-2.0
Futurewei
Andes MCUlib
website
Andes commercial license
Andes
Boot loaders and monitors
Name
Links
License
Maintainers
coreboot
Upstream
GPLv2
Ron Minnich (Google), Jonathan Neuschäfer
U-Boot
Upstream
GPLv2
Rick Chen (Andes)
Proxy Kernel/BBL
GitHub
BSD 3-clause
SiFive
OpenSBI
GitHub
BSD 2-clause
Anup Patel (Western Digital), Atish Patra (Western Digital)
RustSBI
GitHub
Mulan PSL v2
Luo Jia (Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Tech.)
UEFI edk2
GitHub
BSD 2-Clause Patent
Abner Chang (Hewlett Packard Enterprise), Daniel Schaefer (Hewlett Packard Enterprise)
Hypervisors and related tools
Name
Links
License
Brief
Maintainers
Xvisor
Website , Upstream , RISC-V Repo
GPLv2
Type-1 baremetal monolithic hypervisor
Anup Patel (Western Digital)
KVM
Website , RISC-V Repo , RISC-V Wiki
GPLv2
Type-2 hypervisor
Anup Patel (Western Digital), Atish Patra (Western Digital)
KVMTOOL
Upstream , RISC-V Repo
GPLv2
Userspace tool for the KVM hypervisor
Anup Patel (Western Digital), Atish Patra (Western Digital)
RVirt
GitHub
Apache-2.0
Trap-and-emulate hypervisor
Jonathan Behrens (MIT)
Name
Links
License
Maintainers
Linux Kernel
github , kernel.org
GPLv2
Andrew Waterman (SiFive), Albert Ou (SiFive), Palmer Dabbelt (Google)
Yocto Project/OpenEmbedded
github
MIT
Khem Raj
Buildroot
busybox.net
Mark Corbin (Embecosm)
Real-time Operating Systems
Name
Links
License
Maintainers
RT-Thread
github , rt-thread.io
Apache 2.0
RT-Thread
embOS
Website , RISC-V port
SEGGER commercial license, free for non-commercial use
SEGGER
RTEMS
rtems.org , docs.rtems.org
Hesham Almatary
FreeRTOS
sourceforge , freertos.org
MIT
AWS
Zephyr
github , docs
Apache 2.0
Karol Gugala (Antmicro), Peter Gielda (Antmicro), Nathaniel Graff (SiFive)
LiteOS
github , docs
Chaifangming (Huawei), Pengzhouhu (Huawei), Huerjia (Huawei)
NuttX
bitbucket.org , nuttx.org
Apache Mynewt
riscv.org
Apache 2.0
James Pace, Runtime
OpenWrt
github , binary repo
Zoltan Herpai
seL4
github , seL4.systems
GPLv2 (kernel and proofs), various open-source licenses (userland)
Trustworthy Systems group, Data61 CSIRO
PikeOS
Press release
Proprietary
SYSGO
VxWorks
Press release
Proprietary
Wind River
Embox
github , embox.rocks
Embox
Phoenix-RTOS
github , documentation
BSD
Phoenix Systems
Compilers and runtimes for other languages
Name
Links
License
Maintainers
Go
Upstream , RISC-V repository , Stef's fork
BSD 3-clause
Benjamin Barenblat (Google), Michael Pratt (Google), Stef O'Rear
Ocaml
Upstream , RISC-V repository
LGPL
Nicolás Ojeda Bär
Maxine VM (Java Virtual Machine)
Upstream
GPLv2
Maxine team
Jikes RVM (Java Virtual Machine)
Upstream
Eclipse Public License (EPL)
Martin Maas (University of California, Berkeley)
OpenJDK/HotSpot (Java Virtual Machine)
?
?
Alexey Baturo, Michael Knysnek, Martin Maas
OpenJDK/OpenJ9 (Java Virtual Machine)
Upstream
Eclipse Public License 2.0 (EPLv2) with ClassPath Exception & Apache 2.0
Cheng Jin
BishengJDK/HotSpot (Java Virtual Machine)
Upstream
GPLv2 with Classpath Exception
Yadong Wang
Free Pascal
Upstream
?
Jeppe Johansen and others
Nim
Upstream
MIT
Andreas Rumpf and others
Ada (GNAT)
Upstream
GPLv3 with linking exception
AdaCore
Rust
Upstream
Apache and MIT
Rust Project
muForth
Upstream
?
David Frech
ibForth
Upstream
GPLv3
Lars Brinkhoff
Mecrisp-Quintis Forth kernel
Upstream
?
Matthias Koch
Mono
Initial support in upstream
MIT
Alex Rønne Petersen
Zen
Zen-Lang.org
Commercial, AGPLv3
connectFree Corporation
V8 (JS)
Upstream github
BSD
RIOS , Futurewei , PLCT Lab
Node.js
github
MIT
RIOS , Futurewei , PLCT Lab
OpenArkCompiler (MAPLE)
Upstream
MulanPSL-2.0
Futurewei
Eclipse OMR
github
Eclipse Public License 2.0 (EPLv2) with ClassPath and Assembly Exception & Apache 2.0
Eclipse OMR Project
IDEs, SDKs and binary toolchain distributions
Name
Links
License
Maintainers
emCrypt
Website
Commercial, free for non-commercial use
SEGGER
CoreGuard
Website
Proprietary
Dover Microsystems, Inc.
MultiZone API
GitHub
ISC
Hex Five Security Inc.
Secure IoT Stack
GitHub
MIT, GPLv2, GPLv3, Evaluation license
Hex Five Security Inc.
MultiZone Security TEE & Enclave
SDK , Enclave
Evaluation license
Hex Five Security Inc.
Keystone Enclave
Website , Repositories
BSD 3-clause
Keystone Team
SecureRF
Website , SDK
Proprietary
SecureRF Corp.
IntrinsicID
Quiddikey
Proprietary
Intrinsic ID
Penglai Enclave
Website , GitHub
Mulan PSL v1
IPADS
PQSLIB / PQSoC
Website
Proprietary
PQShield
Ghidra
Website , Github
Apache 2.0
National Security Agency
Name
Links
License
Maintainers
RISC-V Explorer
Website
Proprietary
BlueSpec
Name
Links
License
Maintainers
OpenBLAS (Support RISC-V V extension 0.7.1)
GitHub
BSD 3-clause
PerfXLab
Andes DSP Library
website
Andes commercial license
Andes
Andes Vector Library
website
Andes commercial license
Andes