TASKING Extends Unified Toolchain to Infineon's AURIX RC1 RISC-V Automotive MCUs

TASKING announced unified toolchain support for Infineon's AURIX RC1 family of RISC-V-based automotive microcontrollers, covering compilation, debugging and verification with agentic AI built in. Business Wire published the announcement on November 10, 2026. The VX-toolset for RISC-V supporting AURIX RC1 will be available in December 2026, and qualification of the RISC-V toolchain is planned for 2027.

How the AURIX RC1 Toolchain Works

Engineers can compile with the VX-toolset, debug with winIDEA and BlueBox, and verify with LDRA from one unified toolchain. TASKING said the setup targets OEMs and Tier-1s starting new designs or migrating from TriCore and Arm. Teams moving from TriCore can keep existing tool investments, CI/CD pipelines and know-how, while teams coming from Arm get one toolchain across Arm and RISC-V.

Infineon unveiled the AURIX RC1 family at electronica 2026. Infineon CEO Jochen Hanebeck said the company needs customer commitments to justify further semiconductor production capacity expansion, citing limits to what Infineon can shoulder alone and noting new factory investments in Dresden and Villach, MarketScreener reported.

Thomas Schneid, Vice President Software and Ecosystem Management at Infineon, said: "Our new open architecture based on RISC-V comes with a growing holistic ecosystem." Christoph Herzog, Co-CEO and CTO of TASKING, said: "OEMs can be confident their toolchain is optimized for the silicon, aligned with Infineon's software ecosystem, and designed to accelerate and simplify even the most complex automotive designs."

TASKING said the toolchain supports AURIX RC1 Virtual Prototypes, letting teams evaluate, design, analyze, test and verify software before silicon is available. New AI skills for the VX-toolset, available with the December release, bring build, diagnostics, map-file and LSL analysis and startup code into a VS Code-based environment via MCP, while the qualified tools remain unchanged. TASKING said its winIDEA AI Kit has shown at least 50% effort reduction in three use cases.

TASKING's Earlier RISC-V and Toolchain Moves

According to akta.pro company records, TASKING integrated its fusion-aware compiler with Synopsys ARC-V processors and Infineon's automotive RISC-V virtual prototype in March 2026. The same records list a March 2026 launch of an integrated compile, debug and test toolchain for the Renesas RH850/U2x family, including the RH850/U2C series, with TÜV functional safety and cybersecurity certification.

The Path to the Infineon Announcement

In October 2026, TASKING launched its first single-vendor unified toolchain for NXP's S32K5 automotive MCU family, developed with NXP, integrating compilation, debugging and verification with ASIL D compliance and MCAL certification, Business Wire Blog reported. In September 2026, TASKING joined SDVerse, a B2B marketplace for automotive software, to make its embedded software development tools accessible to OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers, FinancialContent Business Page reported.

Where to See the Toolchain

TASKING said it will demonstrate the AI-assisted workflow along the V-cycle with the unified toolchain at the Infineon booth, hall C3, booth 502, at electronica 2026. The company is offering evaluation licenses and migration workshops through its contact page.