Tuesday, October 22nd 2024
RISC-V Announces Ratification of the RVA23 Profile Standard for Vector Processing and Hypervisors
RISC-V International, the global standards organization, today announced that the RVA23 Profile is now ratified. RVA Profiles align implementations of RISC-V 64-bit application processors that will run rich operating systems (OS) stacks from standard binary OS distributions. RVA Profiles are essential to software portability across many hardware implementations and help to avoid vendor lock-in. The newly ratified RVA23 Profile is a major release for the RISC-V software ecosystem and will help accelerate widespread implementation among toolchains and operating systems.
As the steward of the RISC-V standard, RISC-V has more than 80 technical working groups that collectively advance the capabilities of the RISC-V ISA. RISC-V addresses the need for portability across vendors with standard ISA Profiles for applications and systems software. Each Profile specifies which ISA features are mandatory or optional, providing a common target for software developers. Mandatory extensions can be assumed to be present, and optional extensions can be discovered at runtime and leveraged by optimized middleware, libraries, and applications. To be ratified, the RVA23 Profile underwent a lengthy development, review, and approval process across numerous working groups, before receiving the final ratification vote by the RISC-V Board of Directors.
"Profiles are the foundations of application and systems software portability across RISC-V implementations. A large software ecosystem is only possible with a standard Profile for software vendors to target and within which multiple suppliers can work together," said Andrea Gallo, Vice President of Technology at RISC-V International. "Software vendors need portability to reduce their development and maintenance costs and enable them to successfully sell their software and services on a wide variety of RISC-V products. The ratification of RVA23 makes this happen."
Key Components of RVA23 Include:
"The RISC-V community has grown tremendously to more than 16,000 engineers around the world. The focus, collaboration, and investment of our members has truly formed the bedrock of computing for generations to come. RISC-V's open standard is now propelling innovation across industries and implementations. Today's announcement is a great milestone and further positions the RISC-V ISA as the future of computing," said Calista Redmond, CEO of RISC-V International.
RISC-V International is hosting its annual RISC-V Summit North America this week, Oct. 22-23, 2024 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, Calif. Registration is still open: click here to sign up and join the global RISC-V community to share technology breakthroughs, industry milestones, and case studies, as well as to network and build relationships.
All RISC-V members are welcome to join the Profiles Task Group Mailing List to keep informed. If you are not already a member, please become a member today.
As the steward of the RISC-V standard, RISC-V has more than 80 technical working groups that collectively advance the capabilities of the RISC-V ISA. RISC-V addresses the need for portability across vendors with standard ISA Profiles for applications and systems software. Each Profile specifies which ISA features are mandatory or optional, providing a common target for software developers. Mandatory extensions can be assumed to be present, and optional extensions can be discovered at runtime and leveraged by optimized middleware, libraries, and applications. To be ratified, the RVA23 Profile underwent a lengthy development, review, and approval process across numerous working groups, before receiving the final ratification vote by the RISC-V Board of Directors.
Key Components of RVA23 Include:
- Vector Extension: The Vector extension accelerates math-intensive workloads, including AI/ML, cryptography, and compression / decompression. Vector extensions yield better performance in mobile and computing applications with RVA23 as the baseline requirement for the Android RISC-V ABI.
- Hypervisor Extension: The Hypervisor extension will enable virtualization for enterprise workloads in both on-premises server and cloud computing applications. This will accelerate the development of RISC-V-based enterprise hardware, operating systems, and software workloads. The Hypervisor extension will also provide better security for mobile applications by separating secure and non-secure components.
"The RISC-V community has grown tremendously to more than 16,000 engineers around the world. The focus, collaboration, and investment of our members has truly formed the bedrock of computing for generations to come. RISC-V's open standard is now propelling innovation across industries and implementations. Today's announcement is a great milestone and further positions the RISC-V ISA as the future of computing," said Calista Redmond, CEO of RISC-V International.
RISC-V International is hosting its annual RISC-V Summit North America this week, Oct. 22-23, 2024 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, Calif. Registration is still open: click here to sign up and join the global RISC-V community to share technology breakthroughs, industry milestones, and case studies, as well as to network and build relationships.
All RISC-V members are welcome to join the Profiles Task Group Mailing List to keep informed. If you are not already a member, please become a member today.
1 Comment on RISC-V Announces Ratification of the RVA23 Profile Standard for Vector Processing and Hypervisors
My question to the Gaming Community is: Does anybody use laptops with RISC-V processor for gaming?
I wish RISC-V International VIPs look at that thread in order to see that there is a real problem with RISC-V processor based computer systems ( PCs, Laptops, Notebooks, HPC, etc ). I see that a huge Gaming Community does Not use RISC-V systems.