Author: Gareth Halfacree

Gareth Halfacree is a technology journalist and technical author best known for his work on the Raspberry Pi User Guide and an upcoming book covering the BBC’s micro:bit project. A keen open source advocate and RISC-V fan, Gareth is responsible for curating our fortnightly community round-up posts.
SiFive U74-MC Block Diagram

SiFive Launches New E7, S7, U7 RISC-V Cores

RISC-V pioneer SiFive has announced a new family of processor cores, the Core IP 7 Series, which it claims are “the highest performance commercially available RISC-V cores” and which come in hard-real-time, performance, and Linux-capable variants. “The SiFive Core IP 7 Series represents a major advancement in RISC-V. The 7… Read More
TechInsights LPWAN Die Shot

TechInsights Compares LPWAN Standards via Die Analysis

TechInsights’ Jefferson Chua and Daniel Yang have published a comparative piece looking at the four main low-power wide-area networking (LPWAN) technologies currently vying for the Internet of Things (IoT): LoRa, Sigfox, NB-IoT, and LTE-M. In the piece, published on Electronic Design, the pair compare the four primary LPWAN standards currently… Read More
SiFive HiFive1 MCU (Cropped)

S3 Semi’s Edel Griffith Busts Custom Silicon Myths

S3 Semiconductors’ Edel Griffith has published a piece on Electronic Design busting 11 myths about custom silicon, from production of application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) being too expensive for lower-volume projects and fear of a so-called “black-box design” process. Designed to encourage companies to look more closely at custom… Read More