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09/29/2023 » Ashling and CAST announce RiscFree™ C/C++ SDK support for CAST RISC-V IP Cores…

CAST BA51 and BA53 IP core customers can now use Ashling’s RiscFree SDK to develop and debug systems that use these RISC-V processors.

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09/19/2023 » New Ashling Design Centre in Kochi, India.

Last week marked a significant milestone for Ashling in India, where we successfully finalized all legal formalities for the inception of ‘Ashling India’ and opened our new Ashling Design Centre in Kochi (Cochin) located on the south-western Malabar Coast. The Indian and Ireland flags share the same colours and we used this theme for our new office opening.

07/14/2023 » Ashling and Lattice Semiconductor announce Ashling’s RiscFree™ C/C++ SDK support for Lattice’s RISC-V-based MCU CPU IP Cores…

Ashling today announced its RiscFree SDK has been added to the Lattice Semiconductor RISC-V® MC CPU soft IP support ecosystem…

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06/30/2023 » Ashling announces availability of their new product, the Vitra-XS Debug & Trace Probe for Synopsys ARC® Processors …

Vitra-XS is the newest member of the Ashling probe family and is a Debug & Trace Probe for embedded development with support for multiple target architectures including Synopsys ARC Processor powered systems.

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06/12/2023 » Ashling announces renewal of Quality Management System Certification to ISO9001:2015 Standards...

June 6th, 2023 Limerick, Ireland. “I am delighted to announce the recent renewal of our Quality Management System certification, which aligns with ISO9001:2015 standards. This certification has been independently verified and audited at both our sites in Limerick, Ireland, and Cochin, India. Essentially, this certification signifies our unwavering commitment to designing, developing, and delivering products that meet or exceed our customers’ needs and expectations. It also reinforces our dedication to maintaining internal processes and procedures that ensure consistent and timely delivery of these products. Thank you for your continued trust in our commitment to quality.” said Hugh O’Keeffe, CEO at Ashling. For more details, see here.

05/29/2023 » Ashling and MachineWare announce RiscFree™ support for MachineWare’s SIM-V RISC-V Instruction Set Simulator...

Limerick, Ireland. 29th May 2023. Ashling announced today that Ashling’s RiscFree SDK now provides target debug support for MachineWare’s SIM-V RISC-V Instruction Set Simulator…

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04/04/2023 » Ashling announce RiscFree™ C/C++ SDK support for the Zephyr Real-Time Operating System...

Limerick 4th April 2023, Ireland. Ashling announced today that Ashling’s RiscFree SDK now provides support for the Zephyr RTOS running on RISC-V and Arm based IP cores and devices. RiscFree debug support for the Zephyr RTOS presents a powerful and comprehensive debugging solution for developers working with the open-source Zephyr platform.

This advanced debugging toolset is designed to streamline the development process for embedded systems utilizing RISC-V and Arm cores, allowing engineers to more efficiently build, test, debug and optimize software running on the Zephyr RTOS….

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03/14/2023 » Ashling and Imperas collaborate with MIPS to Accelerate RISC-V Application Software Development from SoC Concept to Deployment...

Embedded World, Mar-14 2023, Nuremberg, Germany. Ashling, Imperas and MIPS announced today that the MIPS flexible compute solutions are now supported with Imperas reference models and Ashling SDK tools including RiscFree™, ready for the complete SoC design phase and end user development.

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03/14/2023 » Ashling and Imagination announce Ashling’s RiscFree™ C/C++ SDK support for RISC-V-based Catapult family...

Embedded World, Mar-14 2023, Nuremberg, Germany. Ashling and Imagination Technologies announced today that Ashling’s RiscFree™ SDK will provide software development support for Imagination’s Catapult RISC-V-based IP cores.

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01/13/2023 » Ashling Interview about our new Vitra-XS Trace Probe at RISC-V Summit 2022...

January 13, 2023 San Jose, CA — Listen to Ashling’s Nadim Shehayed talking with Calista Redmond about our new Vitra-XS Trace Probe and RISC-V tools at the December 2022 RISC-V summit in San Jose.

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12/19/2022 » Ashling’s RiscFree™ IDE powers new Efinix® Efinity® RISC-V Embedded Software IDE…

DEC-19, 2022 SANTA CLARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Efinix®, an innovator in programmable product platforms and technology, today announced the release of its Efinity® RISC-V Embedded Software IDE powered by the popular Ashling RiscFree™ IDE.

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12/12/2022 » Ashling announce availability of their new Vitra-XS Debug & Trace Probe…

Dec-12, 2022 RISC-V Summit, San Jose, Silicon Valley, California, USA – Today Ashling announced availability of Vitra-XS their newest member of the Ashling probe family. Vitra-XS is a debug & trace probe for embedded development with support for multiple target architectures including RISC-V powered systems.

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10/28/2022 » Ashling’s RiscFree™ IDE now bundled with Intel® Quartus® FPGA Design Software

The Ashling RiscFree  IDE for Intel FPGAs software is now downloadable as part of the Intel Quartus FPGA Design Software version v22.2 and onwards.  See here on the Intel site for more details on RiscFree including downloading, installing and getting started. Quartus + RiscFree provides all you need for RISC-V ISA based Nios V soft processors design including support for Unified debugging with Intel FPGA Arm powered hard processors.

07/15/2022 »The Shifting, Whispering Sands…

July 15, 2022 – The shifting, whispering sands of silicon never stay still as the market continues to move from general purpose chips to custom or semi-custom solutions. It’s happening everywhere and all the big platform names now have their own in-house chip design teams including Apple, Amazon, Facebook (Meta), Google, Microsoft and even Tesla…

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06/21/2022 » Ashling and Embecosm partnership continues to provide “best-in-class” embedded tools services and solutions to the RISC-V market

June 21, 2022 – Ashling, a supplier of high-performance embedded software and hardware tools for the RISC-V market and Embecosm the leading supplier of RISC-V free and Open-source Compiler Toolchains today announced their partnership, now in its fifth year, continues to grow and deliver the full spectrum of development tools including Compilers, IDEs, Debuggers, SDKs and Debug and Trace probes to a broad range of customers particularly in the RISC-V market.

Read the official press-release here.

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05/31/2022 » CAES and Ashling announce Ashling’s RiscFree™ C/C++ Toolchain for CAES’ NOEL-V® Processors

May 31, 2022, Silicon Valley, CA and Arlington, VA Ashling and CAES announced today that Ashling’s
RiscFree Toolchain will provide software development support for CAES’ NOEL-V fault tolerant RISC-V based processors…

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05/30/2022 » Ashling and GigaDevice Semiconductor announce Ashling's RiscFree™ C/C++ Toolchain for GigaDevice's GD32 RISC-V Microcontrollers

May 30, 2022, Silicon Valley, Calif. USA – Ashling and GigaDevice Semiconductor jointly announced today that Ashling’s RiscFree Toolchain for RISC-V will provide specific software development support for GigaDevice’s GD32V series of RISC-V based microcontrollers (GD32V)…

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05/23/2022 » Ashling announces RiscFree™ C/C++ Toolchain for Microchip PolarFire®

May 23rd, 2022, Silicon Valley, Calif. USA – Ashling announced today that Ashling’s RiscFree Toolchain for RISC-V will provide specific software development support for Microchip Technology’s PolarFire® SoC RISC-V-based processors.

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05/11/2022 » Intel® partners with Ashling to provide Ashling’s RiscFree™ Toolchain for Intel FPGAs

May 19th, 2022, Intel Vision 2022, Dallas, TX, USA. Intel adopts a leadership role in the RISC-V ecosystem and partners with Ashling to provide RiscFree™ IDE for Intel® FPGAs and Unified Debugger support for Nios® V soft processors. Read the official press-release here and the joint Intel and Ashling white paper here.

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03/28/2022 » MIPS chooses Ashling’s RiscFree™ Toolchain for its RISC-V ISA compatible IP cores

March 28, 2022, SILICON VALLEY, CA, USA. Ashling and MIPS announced today that Ashling’s RiscFree™ Toolchain has been extended to support MIPS RISC-V ISA based IP cores. RiscFree™ is Ashling’s Integrated Development Environment (IDE) including a compiler and debugger for RISC-V based development, and it now has support for MIPS RISC-V ISA based IP cores, enhanced by MIPS’ own proven and tested Core Framework Platform…

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02/22/2022 » What’s a CVE ?

22nd Feb 2022, Limerick, Ireland. What’s a CVE ? No, nothing to do with a resume extradonaire …just another acronym I’m afraid and this time it stands for Common Vulnerability & Exposures. What ? Simply put, a CVE is a publicly known cybersecurity vulnerability in a particular piece of software. A cybersecurity vulnerability is a “weak-link” and depending on where it may be found, it can impact you or your organisations IT security and possibly leave you open to exploitation by cybercriminals…

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17/02/2022 » Using Custom Instructions with the GDB Debugger

17th Feb 2022, Limerick, Ireland. Custom instructions are typically used to move critical portions of an application implementation from software to the hardware domain with a resulting performance boost, power saving and code density improvement. It’s all about CPU cycles and doing more in less! Custom instructions typically require a new instruction mnemonic to invoke and you can think of this as an “API” to call the encapsulated hardware functionality. The RISC-V ISA was designed …

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14/02/2022 » “Open-source” Hardware Design

14th Feb 2022, Limerick, Ireland.RISC-V Summit 2021. The OpenHW Group are taking open-source principles that have revolutionised the software industry and applying them to hardware design in the development of a family of RISC-V based microprocessor cores (“CORE-V”). We’re proud to be part of the group and as of now we are involved in the Software Development Toolchain and SDK for CORE-V. OpenHW is part of the Eclipse Foundation community and you can find more details here

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12/06/2021 » Ashling RiscFree™ now supports Andes Technology RISC-V CPUs

SAN FRANCISCO, CA USA – RISC-V Summit 2021. Ashling and Andes Technology announced today that Ashling’s RiscFree™ Toolchain will be extended to support the broad range of Andes RISC-V CPU IPs including support for the AndeStar™ V5 Performance and CoDense™ ISA Extension, leveraging the high-quality and production-proven Andes GNU compiler…

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12/06/2021 » Ashling RiscFree™ now supports Alibaba’s RISC-V CPUs

SAN FRANCISCO, CA USA – RISC-V Summit 2021 – Ashling announced today that Ashling’s RiscFree™ Toolchain will be extended to support the broad range of Alibaba RISC-V CPU IPs including support for the open source XuanTie E902, E906, C906, and C910…

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11/02/2021 » Ashling announce plans for OpenHW CORE-V Development Kit

The OpenHW CORE-V (https://www.openhwgroup.org/) group are currently developing a range of open-source, RISC-V ISA based cores known as CORE-V. Ashling, as an OpenHW member, are actively involved in working on the definition and implementation of a CORE-V Development Kit which includes a reference board designed around a CORE-V MCU and an SDK containing everything needed to develop software to run on the board…

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10/01/2021 » RiscFree™ Core Dump Snapshot Support from Ashling

Ashling announces RiscFree™ Core Dump Snapshot Support. It’s 3:00am and you’re at home sleeping peacefully. Your code, however, is not and is running hard in the office (remember the office?) where it is being poked, stretched and strained by “Jenkins” your trusty test server. 459 tests have all passed so far and number 460 is in progress when suddenly…bam…crash…and your code comes to a shuddering halt. Jenkins nod…

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08/20/2021 » Release of the NXP SecurACE FPGA Based Emulation Platform

Ashling Microsystems is a Gold-level NXP Technology Partner offering tailored, integrated embedded solutions and we have a long, successful history together of providing tools and services to NXP’s Secure Controller group and their customers. Recently, Ashling and NXP have jointly developed and released the SecurACE FPGA emulation platform…

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07/20/2021 » Different Cores, One Solution for SoC, FPGA and ASIC debug

A single instance of our RiscFree™ IDE supports any number of heterogeneous and homogeneous cores. You can debug all your cores (in a SoC, FPGA or ASIC) via a single debug interface (JTAG, cJTAG, SWD etc) ….

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02/25/2021 » White paper on adding custom RISC-V Instructions to QEMU by Hugh O’Keeffe

Ashling’s VP of Engineering Hugh O’Keeffe has written a new white-paper with a step-by-step guide on how to add custom RISC-V instructions to the QEMU emulator including how to build and debug applications which use the new custom instructions. See here

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02/08/2021 » Code Coverage Tool for RISC-V and Arm from Ashling

Ashling announces immediate availability of an integrated Code Coverage Tool for Arm and RISC-V
based target applications within Ashling’s RiscFree™ IDE and Debug solution…

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12/16/2020 » Heterogeneous Multicore Debug Paper by Róisín O’Keeffe

Ashling’s VP of Global Business Development Róisín O’Keeffe has written a new white-paper on Heterogeneous Multicore Debug. The paper is accessible via the Multi-core Debugging page here or directly here

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12/04/2020 » New low-cost Opella-LD Debug Probe now available from Ashling

Ashling announces immediate availability of Opella-LD, a new low-cost hardware Debug Probe for embedded development. Opella-LD supports debug of target architectures based on Arm, RISC-V or Synopsys ARC cores. It supports JTAG, cJTAG and SWD interfaces and is OpenOCD compatible. Opella-LD can be used together with either Ashling’s RiscFree™ Eclipsed-based IDE/Debugger or the GNU GDB Debugger…

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11/09/2020 » Execution Profiling Tool for RISC-V and ARM from Ashling

Ashling announces availability of an integrated Code Execution Profiling Tool for Arm and RISC-V based applications within Ashling’s RiscFree™ IDE and debug solution…

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11/06/2020 » Ashling integrates UltraSoC tools for real-time RISC-V trace

Ashling, a leading supplier of high-performance embedded software and hardware development tools, has adopted UltraSoC’s embedded analytics technology to create a powerful RISC-V debug and trace solution…

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10/09/2020 » Arm and RISC-V Software Development Solution from Ashling: RiscFree™ for Arm & RISC-V

Ashling, a leading provider of embedded development tools, has today announced advanced support for heterogeneous multi-core Arm and RISC-V development within Ashling’s RiscFree™ IDE and Debugger. The solution allows developers of complex multi-architecture, multi-core heterogeneous…

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08/20/2020 » Ashling presents debug solutions for the CORE-V family of RISC-V cores at the OpenHW TV event

Ashling, a member of the OpenHW Group and a leading supplier of high-performance embedded software and hardware development tools, presented debug solutions for OpenHW Group CORE-V family of RISC-V cores in OpenHW Group TV Episode 3 on 20th August 2020.

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08/12/2020 » Ashling’s RiscFree™ adds support for the new Cacheable Overlay Manager for RISC-V

Ashling a leading provider of embedded development tools today announced full tools support for the new Cacheable Overlay Manager for RISC-V (ComRV) as contributed by Western Digital to the RISC-V community.

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07/09/2020 » Ashling’s RiscFree™ now supports Western Digital’s SweRV EH2 and EL2 RISC-V Cores

Ashling a leading provider of embedded development tools announced today full tools support for the latest Western Digital’s RISC-V open source SweRV EH2 and EL2 cores on their RiscFree™ Toolchain.

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03/28/2020 » Ashling joins OpenHW Group

As a member of the OpenHW Group, Ashling will work together with the OpenHW Group engineering team to provide support for OpenHW’s planned cores, including the CORE-V family of RISC-V based open source cores.

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02/08/2020 » Maximizing Application Performance on ARC DSP Processors with the MATLAB/Simulink Plugin

Read Hugh O’Keeffe’s (Ashling VP of Global Engineering) article on using the Ashling developed MetaWare MATLAB/Simulink plugin here. This plugin gives Synopsys DesignWare ARC processor users the power to create highly-optimized applications using the MathWorks MATLAB/Simulink platform.

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12/09/2019 » Ashling’s RiscFree™ Breakthrough Solution for Heterogeneous Cores

Ashling, a leading provider of embedded development tools today announced full support in Ashling’s RiscFree™ IDE and Debugger for Multi-Core Heterogeneous Software Development all from within a single software environment using a single debug probe.

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09/24/2019 » Ashling’s RiscFree™ Toolchain now supports Western Digital’s SweRV RISC-V Cores

Ashling, a leading provider of embedded development tools announced today full tools support for Western Digital’s RISC-V open source SweRV cores on their RiscFree™ Toolchain. Western Digital’s RISC-V open source SweRV Core is a 32-bit, 2-way superscalar, 9 stage pipeline core offering compelling capabilities for embedded devices supporting data-intensive edge applications such as storage controllers and industrial IoT.

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08/14/2019 » Ashling to present MATLAB™ Plugin at Synopsys ARC Processor Summit in Silicon Valley

Ashling today announced a new strategic collaboration with Synopsys Inc., which provides a Plugin allowing use of the MathWorks MATLAB and Simulink tools with the Synopsys DesignWare MetaWare Development Toolkit. The Ashling developed Plugin allows users to compile MATLAB/Simulink-generated C code using the MetaWare Development Kit resulting in code highly optimised for running on Synopsys DesignWare ARC processors particularly those with DSP extensions.

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08/07/2019 » Ashling extends Ultra-XD Real-Time Trace system for Synopsys’ DesignWare® ARC® Processors

Ashling announces today that the Ultra-XD Real-Time Trace Probe supporting Synopsys’ DesignWare® ARC® HS and ARC EM Processor Families has now been extended to support the latest versions (v2) of Synopsys’s ARC Trace Interface Option.

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07/03/2019 » Ashling and NXP upgrade Secure Gateway Demonstrator Platform

Ashling, a supplier of high-performance embedded software and hardware tools, today announced that it has upgraded its Secure Gateway Demonstrator Platform (SGDP) which is a hardware and software platform demonstrating how to design and build a Secure Automotive Gateway using the NXP NCJ38A (“Phantom”) series of embedded Secure Element (eSE) Devices. The upgrade ensures compatibility with the latest version of the NXP DEVKIT-MPC5748G Development Board for MPC5748G. See here for more details: https://www.ashling.com/ashling-nxp-gateway/

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12/20/2018 » Building Out the RISC-V Ecosystem

… While there’s already the basis for a workable ecosystem, it’s not where it needs to be for full-scale success. The early adopters in the ecosystem include Ashling Microsystems, who are building tools to support the board. The company offers RISC-V products based on its Ashling RiscFree platform. Those products include simulation, debug, probes and development tools … allaboutcircuits.com

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12/04/2018 » Ashling supports www.open-isa.org RISC-V based VEGA Board

RISC-V SUMMIT, Santa Clara, CA – December 4, 2018. Ashling, a leading supplier of high-performance embedded software and hardware tools, announces support for the www.open-isa.org RISCV based VEGA Board Platform. As an active member of the RISC-V Foundation, Ashling continues to demonstrate support and commitment to open architectures and ecosystems. At the RISC-V Summit in Santa Clara (December 3rd to 6th), Ashling is exhibiting at the Open-ISA.org stand (#303) in addition to Ashling’s own stand (#200).

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12/04/2018 » Announcing Ashling RiscFree™ Toolchain for RISC-V

RISC-V SUMMIT, Santa Clara, CA – December 4, 2018. Ashling (a subsidiary of the NeST Group) today announced the market release of its latest embedded tools technologies supporting the RISC-V user base, Ashling RiscFree™ C/C++ for RISC-V. It is a fully integrated development tool environment which includes IDE, compiler, debugger, and a JTAG probe ready to use with most RISC-V based core.

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12/03/2018 » Ashling and Embecosm partnership provides tools services to the RISC-V market

RISC-V SUMMIT, Santa Clara, CA – December 3, 2018. Ashling, a supplier of high-performance embedded software and hardware tools for the RISC-V market, today announced that it has partnered with Embecosm the leading supplier of RISC-V free and open source (F/OSS) Compiler Toolchains. Both companies are active members of the RISC-V foundation working closely on the evolution of RISC-V, with a particular emphasis on software development tools.

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09/03/2018 » Ashling and AM Technologies collaborate on RISC-V Technology for IoT Application

REDWOOD CITY, California, USA –  Ashling Systems (a subsidiary of the NeST Group) and AM Technologies today announced a collaboration to provide remote monitoring for IoT based design and products.

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07/02/2018 » Embedded Tools and Services provider Ashling wins approval as NXP Engineering Consultant

LIMERICK, IRELAND Ashling, a leading supplier of high-performance embedded software and hardware tools, today announced that it has been qualified by NXP as an Approved Engineering Consultant (AEC). The aim of NXP’s AEC program is to provide customers with engineering services above and beyond NXP technical support, to get them to production faster. NXP Approved Engineering Consultants are trusted design contractors, software service providers, and training centres that offer experienced consulting or design services to implement NXP technology solutions.

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05/11/2018 » Ashling had a strong presence at the 8th RISC-V Workshop

SPAIN, Barcelona May 11, 2018 – Ashling had a strong showing at the 8th RISC-V Workshop held in Barcelona. Ashling team along with the Imperas team presented a well-attended technical session. RISC-V community is now well aware of the Ashling ecosystem of tools supporting RISC-V.

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02/27/2018 » Ashling exhibits at Embedded World 2018

27th February, 2018 – NÜRNBERG, GERMANY. Ashling showcased its latest high performance debug tools at this year’s Embedded World exhibition, an ideal event to learn about the latest technologies and trends in embedded processor IP, software, programming tools and applications.

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02/26/2018 » Ashling and Imperas Partner to Extend the RISC-V Ecosystem

NUREMBERG, Germany — Embedded World 2018 – Ashling Systems (a subsidiary of the NeST Group) and Imperas Software today announced a partnership to provide integrated tools and solutions for RISC-V software development. The technology aspects of this alliance include the integration of Imperas’ high-performance virtual platforms, simulation engines and models into Ashling’s own RiscFree™ IDE and tools offering. On the business side, Ashling will promote, sell and support this new, comprehensive, turnkey solution spanning the solutions of both companies.

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02/09/2018 » Ashling NXP Certified

February 9, 2018 Ashling Is Certified as NXP Approved Engineering Consultant for the many Services. The certified services are …

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11/20/2017 » Embedded Tools provider Ashling joins RISC-V Foundation

20th November, 2017 – LIMERICK, IRELAND. Ashling, a leading supplier of high-performance embedded software and hardware tools, today announced that it has joined the RISC-V Foundation, a non-profit corporation controlled by its members to drive the adoption and implementation of the open, free RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA) forward.

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11/15/2017 » Ashling exhibits at Beijing Synopsys ARC® Summit

15th November, 2017 – BEIJING, CHINA. Ashling Microsystems Limited showcased its latest high performance debug tools for ARC® processors at the Synopsys ARC® Processor Summit in Beijing, together with its local partner Emdoor Electronic & Technology. This was an ideal forum for ARC® users to learn about the latest technologies and trends in embedded processor IP, software, programming tools and applications…

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07/18/2017 » Ashling announces Trace capability from Power-Up for DesignWare® ARC® processors

18th July, 2017 – LIMERICK, IRELAND. Imagine a scenario where you have issues debugging your hardware immediately after a reset or power-up. For example, a complex bug occurs immediately after the target hardware is powered-up, and only happens when executing code in real-time from reset…

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