The RISC-V Unified Database (UDB) serves as a machine-readable “source of truth” for written RISC-V specifications. To improve the ease of creating these specifications, Qualcomm collaborated with a team of Harvey Mudd College students to develop an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) toolkit that can support architects for RISC-V specifications. The team has worked to develop many of the features one would consider standard for developing in a programming language in a modern IDE, including syntax highlighting, autocompletion, and cross-referencing. The groundwork for this IDE also lays the foundation for other tool developers for the RISC-V ecosystem to use information contained in the UDB more efficiently.

The RISC-V Unified Database (UDB) serves as a machine-readable “source of truth” for written RISC-V specifications. To improve the ease of creating these specifications, Qualcomm collaborated with a team of Harvey Mudd College students to develop an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) toolkit that can support architects for RISC-V specifications. The team has worked to develop many of the features one would consider standard for developing in a programming language in a modern IDE, including syntax highlighting, autocompletion, and cross-referencing. The groundwork for this IDE also lays the foundation for other tool developers for the RISC-V ecosystem to use information contained in the UDB more efficiently.