A Survey of the RISC-V Architecture Software Support

Autor: Benjamin W. Mezger, Douglas A. Santos, Luigi Dilillo, Cesar A. Zeferino, Douglas R. Melo
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: IEEE Access, Vol 10, Pp 51394-51411 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2169-3536
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3174125
Popis: RISC-V is a novel open instruction set architecture that supports multiple platforms while maintaining simplicity and reliability. Despite its novelty, the software support for RISC-V has been increasing in the last years, given that popular toolchains and operating systems already have support for RISC-V. However, although many works have been exploring the RISC-V software ecosystem, no work that raised the current state of software support for RISC-V is available. In this context, this survey reviews the contributions introduced in the last years to understand the RISC-V’s software ecosystem and its usage in both academic and industrial environments. We classified and evaluated the works into four main categories: application fields, RISC-V implementations, software architecture, and deployment features. The primary goal of this research is to provide the community with a comprehensive overview of the current state of RISC-V software support and identify and highlight the main contributions from recent work.
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