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Dr. Luciano Ost
Embedded Systems and Communications Research Group, University of LeicesterThe lack of electronic design automation (EDA) tools combining model flexibility, and fast and accurate evaluation of performance, power, and reliability is one of the major challenges currently faced by embedded researchers. Even expensive, commercially available tools don't often meet modeling and simulation needs for emerging technologies.The description of processors – i.e., register or gate-level – is rarely available to universities, and commercial licenses are quite expensive. Having free tools with different state-of-the-art processor models allows the exploration of new system architectures.
Allen Baum, Chair of the RISC-V International Architecture Test SIG
Esperanto Technologies, Inc.Functional coverage is fundamental to all modern processor verification plans; it marks the progress to project completion and release for prototype manufacture.
The release of the Imperas SystemVerilog functional coverage library with a permissive free-to-use license will now benefit all RISC-V verification teams and complements the work of the RISC-V International Architecture Tests SIG.