TASKING presents compiler toolset for RISC-V in safety- and security-critical automotive applications

April 9, 2024

The new VX-Toolset for RISC-V meets the require­ments of ISO 26262 and ISO/SAE 21434.

Munich, Ger­many, 9 April 2024 – TASKING intro­duces the new com­pil­er toolset VX-Toolset for RISC-V. The indus­try’s first ISO 26262 and ISO/SAE 21434 com­pli­ant com­pil­er facil­i­tates the develop­ment of auto­mo­tive embed­ded soft­ware that meets strin­gent func­tion­al safe­ty and cyber­se­cu­ri­ty require­ments.

The auto­mo­tive indus­try has wit­nessed a steady increase in the uti­liza­tion of semi­con­duc­tor tech­nol­o­gy. In response to the grow­ing demand for resilience with­in the semi­con­duc­tor ecosys­tem, the indus­try is increas­ing­ly turn­ing to open stan­dards such as RISC-V. With this shift comes the neces­si­ty for cer­ti­fied com­pil­er toolsets for RISC-V that adhere to strin­gent stan­dards like ISO 26262 for func­tion­al safe­ty and ISO/SAE 21434 for cyber­se­cu­ri­ty. Address­ing this need, the TASKING VX-Toolset for RISC-V emerges as the first com­pil­er to meet these rig­or­ous cri­te­ria. Com­ple­ment­ed by TASK­ING’s award-win­ning Blue­Box sys­tem-level analy­sis, ver­i­fi­ca­tion, and debug tools, this toolset offers the essen­tial func­tion­al­i­ty required to build the auto­mo­tive soft­ware stack for RISC-V.

“Auto­mo­tive OEMs and semi­con­duc­tor design­ers are explor­ing emerg­ing options like RISC-V for safe, secure, and power/performance opti­mized SoCs,” said John Koeter, senior vice pres­i­dent of prod­uct man­age­ment and strat­e­gy for IP at Syn­op­sys. “TASKING’s new VX-Toolset for RISC-V enrich­es the ecosys­tem for pro­gram­ming Syn­op­sys ARC-V™ Func­tion­al Safe­ty Proces­sor IP for safe­ty-crit­i­cal auto­mo­tive appli­ca­tions. TASKING’S VX-Toolset for RISC-V, along with their debug­ging tools that are inte­grat­ed with Syn­op­sys vir­tu­al pro­to­typ­ing solu­tions, enables our joint cus­tomers to reduce their time-to-mar­ket and increase soft­ware qual­i­ty in the vehi­cle.”

“RISC-V is play­ing an increas­ing­ly impor­tant role in the auto­mo­tive indus­try,” explained Christoph Her­zog, CTO at TASKING. “We are pleased to be able to pro­vide SoC design teams and auto­mo­tive soft­ware devel­op­ers with the tools they need to devel­op safe­ty- and secu­ri­ty-crit­i­cal sys­tems based on RISC-V.”

Avail­abil­i­ty
The VX-Toolset for RISC-V is now acces­si­ble to a select­ed group of cus­tomers. TASKING will be demon­strat­ing the com­pil­er toolset at embed­ded world from April 9 to 11, 2024 at booth 255 in hall 4.

About TASKING
TASKING is a lead­ing provider of develop­ment tools head­quar­tered in Munich, Ger­many, offer­ing high-per­for­mance, high qual­i­ty, safe­ty & secu­ri­ty-ori­ent­ed embed­ded soft­ware develop­ment tools for multi-core archi­tec­tures.

TASK­ING’s develop­ment tools are used by auto­mo­tive man­u­fac­tur­ers and sup­pli­ers, as well as in adja­cent mar­kets around the world to real­ize high-per­for­mance appli­ca­tions in safe­ty-crit­i­cal areas.

The TASKING Embed­ded Soft­ware Develop­ment solu­tions pro­vide an indus­try-lead­ing ecosys­tem for your entire soft­ware develop­ment process. Each TASKING com­pil­er is designed for a cer­tain archi­tec­ture and meets the spe­cif­ic require­ments of your indus­try, includ­ing auto­mo­tive, indus­tri­al, telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions and dat­a­com.

As the rec­og­nized leader in high-qual­i­ty, fea­ture- and safe­ty-com­pli­ant embed­ded soft­ware develop­ment tools, TASKING enables you to cre­ate code with best-in-class size and per­for­mance with com­pil­ers, debug­gers and RTOS sup­port for indus­try-lead­ing micro­proces­sors and micro­con­trollers.

Since Feb­ru­ary 2021, TASKING has been major­i­ty-owned by finan­cial investor FSN Cap­i­tal, which has put the group on a long-term growth path fol­low­ing a suc­cess­ful carve-out. For more infor­ma­tion visit www.tasking.com or fol­low us on https://www.linkedin.com/company/tasking-inc.