Since the Bay Area startup SiFive announced the release of their Freedom Everywhere 310 (FE310) system-on-chip (SoC) — the industry’s first commercially-available SoC based on the open source architecture—back in 2016, the RISC-V architecture has undergone what can only be called a renaissance. After nearly a decade of neglect, the last two years has seen a big uptick in the adoption of the the RISC-V standard.
The release of the first Arduino-compatible development board, called the HiFive1, was seen as a real milestone by the open hardware community and now SiFive is back with the HiFive1 Rev B, now raising on Crowd Supply.
To read more, please visit: https://blog.hackster.io/the-return-of-the-risc-v-hifive1-359559b9aa6.