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eeNews Europe Interview With Rick O'Connor Of RISC-V Foundation

By March 8, 2018May 12th, 2021No Comments
The RISC-V Foundation was present at the Embedded World exhibition with its own booth that also hosted a number of companies within its growing ecosystem. eeNews caught up with Rick O’Connor, executive director of the foundation and asked why a new and open processor architecture was relevant to embedded applications.
“RISC-V (pronounced five) was really the result of a summer academic program to create a processor that could be used to teach processor design in 2010,” O’Connor explained. The obvious choices for teaching had been the x86 and ARM but their instruction sets had become complicated and there were IP and license issues so using them for teaching was not really possible. The the primary motivation was for something simple but that used the best ideas for academia. It took until 2013 to develop and May 2014 was when the specification was first frozen.
To read more, please visit: http://www.eenewseurope.com/news/interview-rick-oconnor-risc-v-foundation

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