The embedded software architecture has changed a lot in recent past.

Most of the embedded software has evolved from monolithic design to well abstracted, modular, scalable, configurable, and extensible in recent past.

However, the embedded processors on which these embedded software run did not undergo much change in this regard.

This talk discusses how RISC-V’s unique characteristics of its free and open ISA (Instruction Set Architecture) brings the modularity, extensibility, scalability, and customizability to embedded processor design.