LDRA joins Microchip’s Mi-V ecosystem
Summary
The collaboration between LDRA and Microchip expands functional safety and security support for Microchip’s RISC-V architecture with important new tools and capabilities that simplify and speed the development, verification and certification of applications using the PolarFire SoC FPGAs and PIC64 MPUs, both of which include multiple RISC-V processor cores. As the RISC-V architecture continues to gain momentum across a wide range of markets, including automotive and IoT, Microchip has taken a leadership role in driving RISC-V-based hardware and software development support. “RISC-V developers leveraging the strength and support of Microchip can now use LDRA’s development tools to focus on implementing functional safety and security in a wide range of embedded applications,” said Ian Hennell, Operations Director, LDRA. “Not only does this create safer and more reliable systems, but it enables developers to perform on-target testing and automate many stages of standards verification and meeting functional safety and security standards compliance.” Full LDRA tool suite capabilities now available for RISC-V architecture The LDRA tool suite has been integrated with Microchip’s SoftConsole IDE for C/C++ development of bare metal and RTOS-based applications targeting PolarFire SoC FPGAs. PolarFire SoC FPGA and PIC64 MPU developers can now take advantage of the full LDRA tool suite, including: • LDRAvault for a comprehensive team and data-centric approach to manage and track certification progress