• RISC V: fifth major ISA design from UC Berkeley
  • A high quality license free royalty free RISC ISA
  • Standard maintainer by the non profit RISC V international
  • Suitable for all types of computing systems
    • From microcontrollers to supercomputers
  • RISC V is NOT
    • A company
    • A CPU implementation

RISCV International

  • Founded in 2015 as the RISC V foundation and is incorporated today as the RISC-v International association in switzerland.
  • RISC V International is the global non profit home of the open standard RISC V Instruction set architecture, related specifications, and stakeholder community
  • RISC V International functions:
    • Directs future development of the ISA
    • Compliance tests
    • Promotion of the ISA
  • 3950 RISC V members across 70 countries contribute and collaborate to define RISC V open specifications as welll as convene and govern related technical, industry, domain and special interest groups.