Calista Redmond, newly-appointed chief executive of the RISC-V Foundation, has highlighted the organisation’s key priorities for accelerating adoption and deployment of the open instruction set architecture (ISA) and related technologies.

“With the significant uptick in RISC-V adoption over the past few years, the RISC-V Foundation Technical Committee has made it a priority to prepare the RISC-V base ISA and standard extensions for ratification,” Calista, who was appointed chief executive back in March, explains in a blog post outlining the not-for-profit organisation’s plans. “There are already a wide variety of RISC-V implementations in industry and academia, designed into applications including graphics engines, machine learning and AI, networking, storage, security, embedded and general purpose processors.

“The RISC-V community has now formally agreed on an ISA standard and frozen the ISA, guaranteeing compatibility. This means that software written for RISC-V will run on all similar RISC-V cores forever giving hardware engineers increased flexibility over processor implementation. The RISC-V community has also been hard at work developing a RISC-V compliance framework. This framework tests whether a processor under development meets the open RISC-V standards, which is critically important for companies implementing RISC-V cores in their products.

“I’d like to thank everyone in the RISC-V community for their significant contributions in helping to usher in this new era of processor innovation,” Calista continues. “If you’re not already an active participant, I strongly encourage you to get involved by joining the RISC-V Foundation and participating in a task group. To stay up-to-date on RISC-V developments, you can subscribe to our mailing lists. For me, I’m active on Twitter and LinkedIn so you can follow me on those channels. I’m always available via email at calista@riscv.org and am happy to schedule time to chat.”

Calista’s full post can be found on the RISC-V Foundation website.