RISC-V Global Forum 2020

An open and configurable ISA such as the RISC-V requires an equally open, agile and easily customizable compliance framework. There are significant challenges in building such a framework which accounts for : vast configurable options of RISC-V targets, choosing and integrating different reference models (formal, RTL, iss, silicon, etc), defining and extracting ISA driven functional coverage, a suite of tests and much more.

The proposed compliance framework, RISCOF, achieves some of the above goals through a robust and completely open-source (under permissive licences) python+yaml based framework. This talk will highlight the current status of RISCOF, its components, capabilities and how it can be extended to be more than just compliance.