High-Performance FPGA Development Platform With Hardened RISC-V Cores With the increasing adoption of RISC-V cores into a wide range of applications that require low power…
Alibaba Cloud Unveils Chip Development Platform to Support Developers with RISC-V based High-Performance SoCs | Alibaba CloudHangzhou, China, August 24, 2022 - Alibaba Cloud, the digital technologies and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, has unveiled its latest chip development platform, named…
LeapFive NB2 is a New RISC-V Processor | Ian Evenden, Tom’s HardwareHardware based on the open-source RISC-V architecture keeps coming, with the latest Chinese vendor going by the name LeapFive, as spotted in the pages of CNX…
StarFive Opens Crowdfunding for the VisionFive 2 RISC-V SBC, Starting at Just $46 | Gareth Halfacree, Hackster.ioStarFive has opened crowdfunding for its second hobbyist-focused RISC-V single-board computer (SBC), the VisionFive 2 — promising a faster device with twice the cores, a…
1400 RISC-V cores for on-chip machine learning | Nick Flaherty, EE News EuropeUntether AI in Canada has developed a AI device with over 1400 RISC-V processors called Boqueria for ‘at memory’ computing. Boqueria, discussed at the HotChips…
StarFive VisionFive 2 quad-core RISC-V SBC launched for $46 and up (Crowdfunding) | Jean Luc Aufranc, CNX SoftwareAs expected, StarFive has officially unveiled the JH7110 quad-core RISC-V processor with 3D GPU and the VisionFive 2 SBC. I just did not expect the…
Experimental Patches Allow Much Faster AArch64 & RISC-V Kexec Kernel Reboots | Michael Larabel, PhoronixFor those making use of Kexec reboots for booting to a new kernel without fully bringing down the system to reduce the server downtime from…
Ubuntu Announces Compatibility With Second RISC-V System | Ian Evenden, Tom’s HardwareThe popular free operating system Ubuntu will now be officially available(opens in new tab) on a second line of RISC-V single-board computers, this time the VisionFive(opens in new…
StarFive VisionFive 2 single-board PC with a quad-core RISC-V chip coming in November | Brad Linder, LiliputingLast year Chinese company StarFive launched a compact single-board computer called the VisionFive v1 that’s powered by a 1.5 GHz dual-core RISC-V processor. Now the company has unveiled version…
In 2021, we announced the first availability of Ubuntu running on RISC-V processors and hardware. However, the endeavor didn’t stop. Now we are proud to announce the…
T-Head DSA design in RISC-V | Chaojun Zhao, Alibaba CloudTo get better performance or lower power consumption for specific applications an acceleration ASIC IP will be added to the traditional SoC design. The ASIC…
China’s RISC-V pioneer raises funds for IoT, automotive push | Peter Clarke, EE NewsRISC-V processor IP company Nuclei System Technology Co. Ltd. (Shanghai, China) has raised hundreds of millions of yuan (100 million yuan is about US$15 million)…
The Democratization of Chip Design | Mike Wishart and Lucio Lanza, EE TimesThe well-structured practices of semiconductor design and manufacturing have been flipped on their sides and may never be the same again. The quickly changing dynamics…
HLK-W801 board features Alibaba Xuantie XT804 based MCU with WiFi 4, Bluetooth LE 4.2 | Jean-Luc Aufranc, CNX SoftwareEarlier this month, we wrote about the 240 MHz WinnerMicro W806 Alibaba Xuantie XT804 C-Sky microcontroller with 1MB flash, 288KB SRAM found in the $2…
MIPS selects Imperas Reference Models for RISC-V Processor Verification | ImperasImperas RISC-V golden reference models and Verification IP used for functional RISC-V Processor Verification and Architectural Compatibility Testing. Imperas Software Ltd., the leader in RISC-V simulation…
Embedded vision kit employs SoC FPGA | Susan Nordyk, EDNMicrochip’s Smart Embedded Vision development platform is a full-featured kit for designing with PolarFire RISC-V SoC FPGAs. The platform enables the design of secure, reliable,…
Implementing Bluetooth® BIS and CIS LE Audio | Telink StaffTelink’s Broadcast Isochronous Stream (BIS) and Connected Isochronous Stream (CIS) LE Audio solutions change the way we experience audio and connect with the world around…
RISC-V is Inevitable | Jack Kang, SiFiveIn just a few short years, RISC-V has become a category of utmost importance in tech; but, things are just getting started. In 2014, the…
The freedom of RISC-V enables a bright future for SiFive. What a time to be in the Semiconductors and CPU industry! As an industry, we…
Meet ESP-C3-M1 and ESP-C3-M1-I ultra small ESP32-C3 mini modules | CNX Software, SponsoredHalf-year ago, Ai-Thinker launched new ESP32-C3 series modules that are fully pin-to-pin compatible with ESP8266, namely ESP-C3-12F, ESP-C3-32S, ESP-C3-01M, ESP-C3-13, ESP-C3-13U. After several months, the…
Video: RISC-V Duisburg Group – Making an authentication token IC based on the Opentitan ProjectSee Johann Heyszl speaking at the RISC-V Duisburg 4th community event on making an authentication token IC based on the Open Titan Project. Watch the…
In Hardware We Trust? From TPM to Enclave Computing on RISC-V | Emmanuel Stapf, Patrick Jauernig, Ferdinand Brasser, and Ahmad-Reza SadeghiAbstract: System-on-Chip platforms have been increasingly extended with trusted computing functionality to provide strong protection for sensitive software applications through enclaves that only require trust…
Samsung-Esperanto Concept AI-SSD Prototype | David Schor, WikiChip FuseEarlier this year we’ve detailed Esperanto’s first neural processor, the ET-SoC-1. The company’s approach for accelerating AI workloads involved integrating a large number of tiny…
RISC-V Summit is an annual conference that showcases the power that open collaboration can have on the processor industry. This year, the event is taking…