RTOS VxWorks officially supports RISC-V
Wind River Joins the RISC-V Foundation and Collaborates


RISC-V is now supported in VxWorks.

Wind River announced on the 12th that its real-time operating system (RTOS) VxWorks will now support the open-source hardware instruction set architecture (ISA) RISC-V. VxWorks already supports C++17, Boost, Python, and Rust.

Wind River also joined the RISC-V Foundation, a non-profit consortium dedicated to standardizing, protecting, and promoting the RISC-V ISA, and agreed to collaborate to build a hardware and software ecosystem for all types of computing devices.

“VxWorks will significantly expand the reach of RISC-V in the embedded developer space,” said Calista Redmond, CEO of the RISC-V Foundation. “We look forward to continued software development from Wind River and the RISC-V community.”

“The industry is very interested in RISC-V, which brings the dynamism of open architecture development to hardware,” said Michel Genard, vice president of products at Wind River. “Wind River plans to continue working with SiFive, Microchip, and other key suppliers to support RISC-V for VxWorks innovation.”

“VxWorks support for Microchip’s RISC-V-based PolarFire SoC FPGA family provides a powerful advantage to embedded system developers who need low-power, thermally efficient and secure real-time and Linux solutions,” said Shakeel Peera, vice president of Microchip’s FPGA business unit.

“Wind River’s support of RISC-V for VxWorks will continue to fuel the RISC-V ecosystem,” said Naveed Sherwani, CEO of SiFive. “We anticipate Wind River’s support of RISC-V for VxWorks will continue to fuel the RISC-V ecosystem, including SiFive core IP and other “VxWorks running on devices will open up new application markets,” he predicted.