Silicon Valley, California, USA. GigaDevice Semiconductor and Ashling jointly announced today that GigaDevice's GD32V series of RISC-V based microcontrollers has been fully supported by the Ashling's RiscFree™ Toolchain.
The GD32V is the industry's first 32-bit general-purpose microcontroller based on the RISC-V core, providing a cost-effective and innovative alternative to RISC-V technology for mainstream applications with balanced processing power, reduced power consumption and peripheral set. GD32V devices are suitable for a wide range of interconnected applications, especially in areas such as industrial control, motor drives, power monitor and alarm systems, consumer and handheld equipment, POS, vehicle GPS, LED display, and others.
"As the RISC-V market is growing, we are happy to see a leading RISC-V toolchain provider like Ashling adding efficient development support for our award-winning GD32V RISC-V based microcontrollers. Ashling RiscFree™ will be a strong addition to the GD32 ecosystem of tools and solutions that will benefit our expanding customer base," said Eric Jin, Product Marketing Director at GigaDevice.
RiscFree™ is Ashling's Integrated Development Environment (IDE) including a Compiler and Debugger and provides software development and debug support for GigaDevice GD32V series. Since its introduction, Ashling's RiscFree™ toolchain has been steadily building market share within the embedded tools market and is particularly strong in the RISC-V market where its ease-of-use, broad functionality, plug-in architecture and upcoming Real-time Trace support have made it the go-to choice for 32-bit and 64-bit RISC core software development.
"We are happy to announce our support for GigaDevice RISC-V based MCUs and that our RiscFree™ is now part of GigaDevice's ecosystem of development and debug. We are confident RiscFree™ support will offer the user base of GigaDevice a leading Toolchain which will help in speeding up the deployment of any GD32V MCU powered solutions." said Hugh O'Keeffe, CEO of Ashling.
Ashling RiscFree™ toolchain support for GD32V MCUs includes:
· Project Manager and Build Manager including Make and CMake support
· Source-code Creation and Navigation support
· GCC toolchain fully integrated into the RiscFree™ IDE with support for newlib run-time library
· Run-time Debug
· Debugger Register View support for Peripheral and CSR Registers
· RTOS Debugger FreeRTOS Task and Queue Views
· Custom instruction support including additions to the standard RISC-V ISA
For more details on GigaDevice see: https://www.gigadevice.com/products/microcontrollers/gd32/risc-v/ or for more information on Ashling's RiscFree™ see: https://www.ashling.com/ashling-riscv/
About GigaDevice Semiconductor
GigaDevice Semiconductor Inc. (SSE Stock Code 603986) is a global leading fabless supplier. The company was founded in April 2005 and headquartered in Beijing, China, with branch offices worldwide. This provides local support to customers at their fingertips. GigaDevice is dedicated to developing advanced memory technologies, MCU and sensor solutions, offers turnkey solutions for market segments ranging from industrial, automotive, computing, consumer, IoT, mobile application to network/telecommunications. GigaDevice management system has achieved IS09001 and IS014001 certification, and in a constant quest to expand the technology offering to customers. GigaDevice has also formed multiple strategic alliances with leading foundries, assembly, and test plants to streamline supply chain management. For more information, please visit www.GigaDevice.com.
About Ashling
Ashling have been a leading provider of Embedded Development Tools & Services since 1982 with design centres in Limerick Ireland and Cochin India and sales and support offices in Europe, Asia Pacific, the Middle East and America. We have over thirty years' experience in developing tools for embedded systems engineers including high-speed Debug and Trace Probes supporting a broad range of MCUs, SoCs and Soft (FPGA) based designs. Our software tools include IDEs, Debuggers, Compilers, SDKs and Simulators and we support all the main embedded architectures including RISC-V, Arm, MIPS, Power Architecture and Synopsys ARC through our RiscFree™ platform. We have a particular focus on RISC-V and are the first company to bring tools to the market supporting heterogenous debug of RISC-V cores along with cores from other vendors. Visit www.ashling.com for more details or contact Nadim Shehayed: nadim.shehayed@ashling.com
About RISC-V
The RISC-V open architecture ISA is under the governance of the RISC-V International. Visit https://riscv.org for more details.
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