Open-source chip,RISC-V and agile development

Abstract

Due to the end of Moore’s Law,traditional chip developing effort focusing on general-purpose performance cannot last long.However,the high entrance requirements and commercial limits block the further innovation and delay its time to market.Therefore open-source chips,universal platform and modern developing methodology are essential.The significance and development of open-source chips,the merit and impact of RISC-V instruction architecture and the agile development practice in logical design were introduced,and this new trend and its remaining defects were commented on in the end.

Keywords

• open-source chip;agile development;computer architecture;instruction set architecture