Reducing the Cost of Flight Data Systems with the RISC-V Computer Architecture (RISC Reduction)

With the increasing use of IP core FPGA based processor systems, the RISC-V architecture has the potential benefit of lowering data system costs by eliminating associated licensing fees required by other processor architectures.  The RISC-V architecture would be a great companion to the open source and collaboration efforts of the cFE/CFS software. Beginning the CFS porting effort to provide support for the RISC-V architecture will reduce development time and save cost and schedule for future missions utilizing the RISC-V processor architecture.  The use of the RISC-V architecture and its open sourced tools will eliminate costly IP that locks you in to a single vendor provide solutions.