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Making the most of the 60th DAC

I just returned from a week in San Francisco where I attended the 60th Design Automation Conference. It was a typical week at DAC — cold weather in July,…

Polos CH32Vxx 32-bit RISC-V MCU boards starts at $1.99

XPU Labs, a subsidiary of AnalogLamb, has designed three inexpensive “Polos” development boards based on WCH CH32VXX RISC-V microcontrollers with pricing starting at just $1.99. The…

Startups Help RISC-V Reshape Computer Architecture

The RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA) is one of the most notable contenders to emerge in the ever-evolving realm of computer architecture. Because of its…

RISC-V Fast-Forwards, Breaks Ground for Auto Innovations

The SiFive RISC-V Automotive CPU IP continues to advance to address and enable automotive applications like infotainment, connectivity and advanced driver-assistance systems. Yet without the…

The industry’s first RISC-V IoT security chip, “Towngas Chip”, had sold over 1,000,000 pieces

July 17, 2023 -- Towngas Group officially announced that the sales of the first RISC-V IoT security chip "Towngas Chip" had exceeded 1 million pieces, which…

THIS RISC-V CPU GAMES IN RUST FROM INSIDE THE GAME

has created something truly impressive — a working RISC-V CPU completely contained in a Terraria world. And then for added fun, he wrote the game of…

DAC 2023: RISC-V is not in the future, it’s now

At this year’s Design Automation Conference (DAC), there was a panel discussion entitled, “Delivering on RISC V’s Promise to Give Designers Freedom to Innovate –…

PODCAST: RISC-V International, Today and Tomorrow with Calista Redmond

Dan is joined by Calista Redmond, CEO of RISC-V International. Prior to RISC-V International, Calista held a variety of roles at IBM, including Vice President of IBM Z…

Ashling announces RiscFree™ C/C++ SDK support for Lattice RISC-V MCU CPU Soft IP Cores

Limerick, Ireland – July 14, 2023 – Ashling today announced its RiscFree SDK has been added to the Lattice Semiconductor RISC-V ® MC CPU soft…

VIDEO: DAC 2023, Day 3: ‘CHIPS Acts,’ RISC-V, More AI

In this video report, EE Times reporters Sally Ward-Foxton and Nitin Dahad discuss what they saw and heard at the third day of the Design Automation…

AnalogLamb Announces RISC-V Polos Development Boards, Starting at Just $1.99

Beijing-based embedded hardware specialist AnalogLamb has announced three new low-cost entries in its Polos family of development boards, all powered by RISC-V microcontrollers from WCH…

BeagleV®-Ahead single board computer available from Farnell

Farnell is now stocking the newly introduced BeagleV®-Ahead, the first professional, open-source mass production RISC-V single board computer (SBC) by Beagleboard.org®. BeagleV®-Ahead is in the…

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My open source silicon highlights of 2022 and goals for 2023 | Matt Venn, Zero To ASIC Course

My favourite moments of 2022 and goals and thoughts for 2023! Watch the full video. 

Implementation of RISCduino core using a Hierarchical Design Flow | Dinesh Annayya, OpenRoad

Dinesh Annaya is an ardent Open-Source EDA enthusiast and an expert user of OpenROAD and OpenLane. He developed a baseline RISCduino SoC, a single, 32…

MIPS Rolls Out Its First RISC-V Processor Core – It’s a Big ‘Un | Steve Leibson, EE Journal

Even though the company had telegraphed its big move, MIPS’s adoption of the RISC-V ISA for its future processor cores hit me like a ton…

A chip design that changes everything: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2023 | Sophia Chen, MIT Technology Review

Computer chip designs are expensive and hard to license. That’s all about to change thanks to the popular open standard known as RISC-V. Ever wonder…

RISC-V Hibernation Support / Suspend-To-Disk Nears The Linux Kernel | Michael Larabel, Phoronix

While the open RISC-V processor architecture has proven to be highly successful, one of the features that it hasn't yet supported with the Linux kernel…

Evaluation of Dynamic Triple Modular Redundancy in an Interleaved-Multi-Threading RISC-V Core | Marcello Barbirotta, Abdallah Cheikh, Antonio Mastrandrea, Francesco Menichelli, Marco Ottavi and Mauro Olivieri

Abstract: Functional safety is a key requirement in several application domains in which microprocessors are an essential part. A number of redundancy techniques have been…

TCADer: A Tightly Coupled Accelerator Design framework for heterogeneous system with hardware/software co-design based on RISC-V | Wenqing Li, Tianyi Liu, Ziyuan Xiao HanQi, Weipu Zhu, Jian Wang

Abstract - Domain-specific architectures (DSAs) or hardware accelerators are typical innovations that are leading computer architecture into a new golden age. In a heterogeneous system,…

VisionFive 2: RISC-V Quad Core Low Cost SBC | Christopher Barnatt, Explaining Computers

StarFive VisionFive 2 RISC-V SBC review, including a demo of an engineering release of Debian, and of Python GPIO control. My previous “Explaining RISC-V” video…

Podcast EP135: Democratizing HPC & AI | Inspire Semiconductor, Semiwiki.com

Dan is joined by Doug Norton, VP of Business Development for Inspire Semiconductor, an Austin-based high performance computing chip design company.  He is also the President of…

Alexander Williams’ FiveForths Is a “Hand-Written” RISC-V Assembly Forth for Microcontrollers | Gareth Halfacree, Hackster.io

Written in RISC-V assembly, this tiny Forth port is open source and fully functional on the Longan Nano microcontroller. Developer Alexander Williams has written and…

Week In Review: Design, Low Power | Marie C. Baca, Semiconductor Engineering

Top Of The News Google announced it will support the RISC-V architecture with the Android open-source operating system. In a keynote at the RISC-V Summit, Lars Bergstrom, Google’s director of engineering for…

MangoPi MQ-PRO Review: RISC-V Raspberry Pi Zero Alternative? | Learn Embedded Systems

In a time when Raspberry Pi’s are few and far between, alternative options such as the MangoPi MQ-PRO are increasingly interesting. In this review we…