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Name
Links
License
Maintainers
riscvOVPsimPlus
website Proprietary freeware Imperas
DBT-RISE-RISCV
github BSD 3-Clause
MINRES Technologies
FireSim
website , mailing list , github , ISCA 2018 Paper BSD
Sagar Karandikar, Howard Mao, Donggyu Kim, David Biancolin, Alon Amid, Berkeley Architecture Research
gem5
SW-dev thread , repository BSD-style
Alec Roelke (University of Virginia)
OVPsim
website , github Proprietary (core simulation platform), Apache License (processor / platform model)Imperas
jor1k
website , github BSD 2-Clause
Sebastian Macke
Jupiter
github GPL-3.0
Andrés Castellanos
MARSS-RISCV
github MIT
Gaurav N Kothari, Parikshit P Sarnaik, Gokturk Yuksek (State University of New York at Binghamton)
QEMU
upstream GPL
Sagar Karandikar (University of California, Berkeley), Bastian Koppelmann (University of Paderborn), Alex Suykov, Stefan O'Rear and Michael Clark (SiFive)
RARS
github MIT
Benjamin Landers
Renode
website , github MIT
Antmicro
Ripes
github MIT
Morten Borup Petersen
RISC-V Virtual Prototype
website , github MIT
Vladimir Herdt (University of Bremen, AGRA )
TinyEMU
website MIT
Fabrice Bellard
Spike
github BSD 3-clause
Andrew Waterman & Yunsup Lee (SiFive)
Swerv-ISS
github GPL - 3
Joseph Rahmeh (Western Digital)
VLAB
VLAB Works Proprietary
ASTC
WebRISC-V
github BSD 3-clause
Gianfranco Mariotti, Roberto Giorgi (University of Siena)
PQSE
website Proprietary
PQShield
riscv-rust
website github MIT
Takahiro Aoyagi
terminus
github MIT
Yang Li
Vulcan
github MIT
Victor Miguel de Morais Costa
riscv-vm
github MIT
Aidan Dodds
EmulsiV
Working Instance , GitHub Open (MPL2.0 )
Guillaume Savaton
C compilers and libraries
Name
Links
License
Maintainers
GCC
Upstream , RISC-V repository GPLv3
Andrew Waterman (SiFive), Palmer Dabbelt (Google), Jim Wilson (SiFive), Kito Cheng (SiFive)
GNU MCU Eclipse RISC-V Embedded GCC (riscv-non-embed-gcc)
Web , Repository , Build , Binary package installer Eclipse Public License
Liviu lonescu
Clang/LLVM
Upstream Apache 2.0
Alex Bradbury (lowRISC)
CompCert
Upstream INRIA Non-Commercial License Agreement
Xavier Leroy
Glibc
Upstream , RISC-V repository GPLv2
Palmer Dabbelt (Google), Andrew Waterman (SiFive), DJ Delorie (Red Hat), Darius Rad(Bluespec)
Newlib
Upstream , RISC-V repository GPLv2
Kito Cheng (SiFive)
SEGGER Runtime Library
Website SEGGER commercial license
SEGGER
SEGGER Floating Point Library
Website SEGGER commercial license
SEGGER
Musl
GitHub MIT
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Green Hills Optimizing C/C++ Compilers
Website Proprietary
Green Hills
OpenArkCompiler (MAPLE)
Upstream MulanPSL-2.0
Futurewei
Andes MCUlib
website Andes commercial license
Andes
Boot loaders and monitors
Name
Links
License
Maintainers
coreboot
Upstream GPLv2
Ron Minnich (Google), Jonathan Neuschäfer
U-Boot
Upstream GPLv2
Rick Chen (Andes)
Proxy Kernel/BBL
GitHub BSD 3-clause
SiFive
OpenSBI
GitHub BSD 2-clause
Anup Patel (Western Digital), Atish Patra (Western Digital)
RustSBI
GitHub Mulan PSL v2
Luo Jia (Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Tech.)
UEFI edk2
GitHub BSD 2-Clause Patent
Abner Chang (Hewlett Packard Enterprise), Daniel Schaefer (Hewlett Packard Enterprise)
Hypervisors and related tools
Name
Links
License
Brief
Maintainers
Xvisor
Website , Upstream , RISC-V Repo GPLv2
Type-1 baremetal monolithic hypervisor
Anup Patel (Western Digital)
KVM
Website , RISC-V Repo , RISC-V Wiki GPLv2
Type-2 hypervisor
Anup Patel (Western Digital), Atish Patra (Western Digital)
KVMTOOL
Upstream , RISC-V Repo GPLv2
Userspace tool for the KVM hypervisor
Anup Patel (Western Digital), Atish Patra (Western Digital)
RVirt
GitHub Apache-2.0
Trap-and-emulate hypervisor
Jonathan Behrens (MIT)
Name
Links
License
Maintainers
Linux Kernel
github , kernel.org GPLv2
Andrew Waterman (SiFive), Albert Ou (SiFive), Palmer Dabbelt (Google)
Yocto Project/OpenEmbedded
github MIT
Khem Raj
Buildroot
busybox.net Mark Corbin (Embecosm)
Real-time Operating Systems
Name
Links
License
Maintainers
RT-Thread
github , rt-thread.io Apache 2.0
RT-Thread
embOS
Website , RISC-V port SEGGER commercial license, free for non-commercial use
SEGGER
RTEMS
rtems.org , docs.rtems.org Hesham Almatary
FreeRTOS
sourceforge , freertos.org MIT
AWS
Zephyr
github , docs Apache 2.0
Karol Gugala (Antmicro), Peter Gielda (Antmicro), Nathaniel Graff (SiFive)
LiteOS
github , docs Chaifangming (Huawei), Pengzhouhu (Huawei), Huerjia (Huawei)
NuttX
bitbucket.org , nuttx.org
Apache Mynewt
riscv.org Apache 2.0
James Pace, Runtime
OpenWrt
github , binary repo Zoltan Herpai
seL4
github , seL4.systems GPLv2 (kernel and proofs), various open-source licenses (userland)
Trustworthy Systems group, Data61 CSIRO
PikeOS
Press release Proprietary
SYSGO
VxWorks
Press release Proprietary
Wind River
Embox
github , embox.rocks Embox
Phoenix-RTOS
github , documentation BSD
Phoenix Systems
Compilers and runtimes for other languages
Name
Links
License
Maintainers
Go
Upstream , RISC-V repository , Stef's fork BSD 3-clause
Benjamin Barenblat (Google), Michael Pratt (Google), Stef O'Rear
Ocaml
Upstream , RISC-V repository LGPL
Nicolás Ojeda Bär
Maxine VM (Java Virtual Machine)
Upstream GPLv2
Maxine team
Jikes RVM (Java Virtual Machine)
Upstream Eclipse Public License (EPL)
Martin Maas (University of California, Berkeley)
OpenJDK/HotSpot (Java Virtual Machine)
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Alexey Baturo, Michael Knysnek, Martin Maas
OpenJDK/OpenJ9 (Java Virtual Machine)
Upstream Eclipse Public License 2.0 (EPLv2) with ClassPath Exception & Apache 2.0
Cheng Jin
BishengJDK/HotSpot (Java Virtual Machine)
Upstream GPLv2 with Classpath Exception
Yadong Wang
Free Pascal
Upstream ?
Jeppe Johansen and others
Nim
Upstream MIT
Andreas Rumpf and others
Ada (GNAT)
Upstream GPLv3 with linking exception
AdaCore
Rust
Upstream Apache and MIT
Rust Project
muForth
Upstream ?
David Frech
ibForth
Upstream GPLv3
Lars Brinkhoff
Mecrisp-Quintis Forth kernel
Upstream ?
Matthias Koch
Mono
Initial support in upstream MIT
Alex Rønne Petersen
Zen
Zen-Lang.org Commercial, AGPLv3
connectFree Corporation
V8 (JS)
Upstream github BSD
RIOS , Futurewei , PLCT Lab
Node.js
github MIT
RIOS , Futurewei , PLCT Lab
OpenArkCompiler (MAPLE)
Upstream MulanPSL-2.0
Futurewei
Eclipse OMR
github Eclipse Public License 2.0 (EPLv2) with ClassPath and Assembly Exception & Apache 2.0
Eclipse OMR Project
IDEs, SDKs and binary toolchain distributions
Name
Links
License
Maintainers
emCrypt
Website Commercial, free for non-commercial use
SEGGER
CoreGuard
Website Proprietary
Dover Microsystems, Inc.
MultiZone API
GitHub ISC
Hex Five Security Inc.
Secure IoT Stack
GitHub MIT, GPLv2, GPLv3, Evaluation license
Hex Five Security Inc.
MultiZone Security TEE & Enclave
SDK , Enclave Evaluation license
Hex Five Security Inc.
Keystone Enclave
Website , Repositories BSD 3-clause
Keystone Team
SecureRF
Website , SDK Proprietary
SecureRF Corp.
IntrinsicID
Quiddikey Proprietary
Intrinsic ID
Penglai Enclave
Website , GitHub Mulan PSL v1
IPADS
PQSLIB / PQSoC
Website Proprietary
PQShield
Ghidra
Website , Github Apache 2.0
National Security Agency
Name
Links
License
Maintainers
RISC-V Explorer
Website Proprietary
BlueSpec
Name
Links
License
Maintainers
OpenBLAS (Support RISC-V V extension 0.7.1)
GitHub BSD 3-clause
PerfXLab
Andes DSP Library
website Andes commercial license
Andes
Andes Vector Library
website Andes commercial license
Andes