{"pk":65390,"title":"Analysis on the Possibility of RISC-V Adoption","subtitle":null,"abstract":"As the interface between hardware and software, Instruction Set Architectures (ISAs) play a key role in the operation of computers. While both hardware and software have continued to evolve rapidly over time, ISAs have undergone minimal change. Since its release in 2010, RISC-V has begun to erode the industry aversion to ISA innovation. Established on the principals of the Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC), and as an open source ISA, RISC-V offers many benefits over popular ISAs like Intel’s x86 and Arm Holding’s Advanced RISC Machine (ARM). \nIn this literature review I evaluate the literature discussing: \nWhat makes changing Instruction Set Architectures difficult\nWhy might the industry choose to implement RISC-V \nWhen researching this topic I visited the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), INSPEC (Engineering Village), and ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Digital Library databases. I used the search terms, “RISC-V”, “Instruction Set Architecture”, “RISC-V” AND “x86”, and “RISC-V” AND “Instruction Set Architecture”. This literature review evaluates 10 papers on implementation of RISC-V. As this paper was intended to cover recent developments in the field, publication dates were limited to from 2015 to present.","language":"en","license":null,"keywords":[{"word":"RISC-V"},{"word":"ISA"},{"word":"Instruction Set Architecture"},{"word":"RISC"}],"section":"Natural Sciences","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5fg7c9gm","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Ian","middle_name":"","last_name":"Scott","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California Merced","department":""}],"date_submitted":"2020-01-20T21:09:15Z","date_accepted":"2020-01-20T21:09:15Z","date_published":"2020-05-01T07:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/ucm_mwp_ucmurj/article/65390/galley/50092/download/"}]}