October 10th, 2018 — After providing in free download its innovative IDE supporting the RISC-V microcontrollers, Dolphin Integration announced the availability of its new release: SmartVison? 2.4.0. This new release is enhanced thanks to new innovative features and the support of more RISC-V ISA extensions:
— Support of the ?F? instruction set extension for single precision floating point registers and operations
— New stack-unwinding tool in the debug toolbox to speed-up application program debug by giving access to program execution stack frames
— Several new pre-defined MCU subsystems based on the RV32 Tornado both in simulation and emulation for reducing application development time and for easily use RISC-V peripherals
— FreeRTOS support for RV32 Tornado to debug efficiently RTOS-based applications
— New intuitive wizard for the creation of RISC-V subsystem projects and the generation of RTL configuration files
Moreover, a beta version of the virtual debug for RV32 Tornado is now available. It allows co-simulation of the RTL code along the C application software for instruction-level debug with the possibility to visualize the complete design signals, design registers and the program variables.
As a reminder, SmartVison? IDE is an open environment allowing the design of complete subsystems based on processor cores and peripherals. Its use for application software development and debug is two-fold:
— In simulation: thanks to sub-system modelling, including peripherals and memories, with power consumption estimation
— On-chip: combined with an In-Circuit Emulator (ICE), BIRD?, and an USB adapter named S-Link
Tags: Dolphin Integration, RISC-V, SmartVison