Compliance Assurance

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In the context of RISC-V hardware verification, Compliance Assurance refers to the technical activities and tools used to verify that processor cores and SoCs conform to the architectural specifications published by RISC-V International. It is one of the special verification requirements for the RISC-V ecosystem, alongside custom instruction verification and support for a broad range of architectures.

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Compliance Assurance

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Within the RISC-V verification ecosystem, Compliance Assurance is the engineering practice of verifying that processor cores and System-on-Chip (SoC) designs correctly implement the RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) as defined by the governing body. It encompasses the automated test generation, coverage analysis, and certification activities that confirm a design conforms to the architectural compliance tests published for the architecture.

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RISC-V International is developing a certification committee focused on compliance assurance for RISC-V devices.

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[1] RISC-V International is developing a certification committee to certify devices against architectural compliance tests. RISC-V Core & SoC Verification (Breker Verification Systems, Verification Futures Reading 2024)

[2] Compliance assurance is one of the special verification requirements for RISC-V, alongside custom instruction verification and support for a broad range of architectures. RISC-V Core & SoC Verification (Breker Verification Systems, Verification Futures Reading 2024)

[3] Arm spends approximately $150M per year on 10^15 verification cycles per core, illustrating the scale challenge that RISC-V compliance assurance must address through automation and reuse. RISC-V Core & SoC Verification (Breker Verification Systems, Verification Futures Reading 2024)

[4] Different RISC-V processors (embedded cores, processor clusters, application processors) have different compliance assurance needs. RISC-V Core & SoC Verification (Breker Verification Systems, Verification Futures Reading 2024)