ChaCha is a high-throughput stream cipher designed with the aim of ensuring high-security margins while achieving high performance on software platforms. RISC-V, an emerging, free, and open Instruction Set Architecture…
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No matter what the size or shape of an LED, it brings out the curiosity in every hardware nerd, and is the lifeblood of badge life around the planet. Then…
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What does it look like to program with no operating system? Can we have direct access to hardware using a high-level language like C++? How does RISC-V work at the…
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EdgeQ revealed today it has begun sampling a 5G base station-on-a-chip that allows AI inference engines to run at the network edge. The goal is to make it less costly…
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This article describes the first public implementation and evaluation of the latest version of the RISC-V hypervisor extension (H-extension v0.6.1) specification in a Rocket chip core. To perform a meaningful…
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Many new encryption techniques seek to resist powerful attacks that could be done using future quantum computers, but these methods often require enormous processing power. Now scientists in Germany have…
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RISC-V is coming on strong, but working with this open-source processor core isn’t as simple as plugging in a commercial piece of IP. Zdenek Prikryl, CTO at Codasip, talks about…
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Researchers in Switzerland and Japan have developed a RISC-V wireless system on chip with anactive power consumption as low as 10µA and an ultra low power standby mode that consumes…
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Side-channel analysis (SCA) attacks pose a major threat to embedded systems due to their ease of accessibility. Realising SCA resilient cryptographic algorithms on embedded systems under tight intrinsic constraints, such…
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Calista Redmond, chief executive of the microprocessor consortium RISC-V International, is a fan of the wild days of chip competition back in the 1980s. "This is the biggest opportunity to…
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