Developer Tools for RISC-V Specifications

Qualcomm Computer Science/Mathematics, 2025–26

Liaison(s): Dr. Derek Hower, Dr. Ajit Dingankar
Advisor(s): Ben Wiedermann
Students(s): Lughnasa Miller (TL-S), Brayden Mendoza (TL-F), Isabel Godoy, Nina Luo, Madeline Seifert

The Clinic team, working with Qualcomm, provides important development tools that help architects who design RISC-V specifications as well as end users and tool developers who consume the information. Qualcomm is a founding member of RISC-V International (RVI), which was formed to standardize the open-source RISC-V specification. A major project of RVI is the Unified Database (UDB), which functions as a machine-readable RISC-V specification, as a “source of truth” for all development. The Clinic team created an integrated development environment with tools that make it easier for users to write and understand hardware specifications for the UDB with features similar to those available for software developers.