This talk is on the technical paper presented at DVCon 2021. Abstract: The open RISC-V instruction set architecture is gaining traction with both semiconductor vendors and systems companies. A key…
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It’s a certain kind of itch that drives people to voluntarily build their own CPU. We start thinking about the papered-over gap in our understanding, the one that lurks between how…
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SEMICONDUCTOR SCALING HAS FUNDAMENTALLY CHANGED For about fifty years, IC designers have been relying on different types of semiconductor scaling to achieve gains in performance. Best known is Moore’s Law which predicted…
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Last month, we wrote about Allwinner D1 SBC & processor that promised to offer a relatively low-cost RISC-V Linux solution. We were not given a name at the time, but there was…
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At first glance, the HiFive Unmatched from SiFive looks like just another mini ITX computer motherboard. But rather than an x86 chip, this system is powered by RISC-V processor. First introduced last fall,…
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The 64bit RISC-V Raspberry Pi alternative we wrote about last month has turned up again, this time on Indiegogo, with a new name. The Nezha board, named after a protective deity in Chinese mythology, was…
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May 21, 2021 -- Your next MCU needs to be more than just smart. It needs to be power-efficient, have ample memory, and industrial-grade security. In this episode of Chalk…
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This video explains the RTL architecture of an RV32I RISC-V processor. Also, it shows how we can create the RISC-V RTL using basic building blocks like adder, decoder, memory, register,…
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BeagleV Starlight is an upcoming affordable general-purpose Linux-capable RISC-V platform, and as such understandably generates a lot of interest in the development community. It is currently in beta stage and limited…
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