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The latest on developments at AB Open and across the wider community.

Imagination, Andes Partner on Wireless RISC-V Microcontroller Product

Imagination Technologies and Andes Technology have announced a partnership to combine the former’s Ensigma wireless intellectual property (IP) with the latter’s RISC-V N22 microcontroller IP in order to create an off-the-shelf product aimed at the Internet of Things (IoT) sector. The collaboration between the two companies marks the first time… Read More

GreenWaves’ €7m Series A Round Shows Hunger for RISC-V, FOSSi

GreenWaves Technologies, which launched the GAP8 RISC-V low-power processor and GAPuino development board in February last year, has announced that it has raised €7 million in Series A funding – a clear demonstration of the startling growth in the free and open source silicon (FOSSi) market. “This support from… Read More

CRU: Open ISA Events, New RISC-V & LoRaWAN Parts, IoT Regulation, and More

AB Open’s Andrew Back has published a piece on building a personal computer based on the RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA), using a custom-designed housing containing a SiFive HiFive Unleashed development board and Microsemi Expansion Board. “While it’s clear that the most significant opportunities for RISC-V will be in democratising… Read More

DVCon 2019 to Host Panel Discussion on Open ISAs’ Impact on Verification and Compliance

The Design and Verification Conference (DVCon) 2019 is to host a panel on the verification and compliance implications of open instruction set architectures (ISAs) like RISC-V, organised by industry expert Imperas. Dubbed “Verification and Compliance in the Era of Open ISA – Is the Industry Ready to Address the Coming… Read More

RISC-V Workshop Zurich Call for Speakers Now Open

The RISC-V Foundation has issued a call for speakers ahead of the RISC-V Workshop Zurich, scheduled for mid-June 2019, with a submission deadline of the 28th of February. Hosted by the non-profit RISC-V Foundation in partnership with Informa’s Knowledge & Networking Division, KNect365, the RISC-V Workshop Zurich is to be… Read More

WCH Adds Upcoming RISC-V Bluetooth LE Microcontroller to CH57x Family

Embedded news site CNXSoft has highlighted an upcoming part from Jiangsu Qinheng Co., Ltd, also known as WinChipHead (WCH), which combines a RISC-V core running at 60MHz with Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) connectivity. Recently added to WCH’s parts list, the 32-bit microcontroller has been dubbed the CH572 – putting it… Read More

Seeed Studio Stocks Sub-$18 RISC-V Sipeed Tang Primer FPGA Board

Internet of Things (IoT)-focused components provider Seeed Studio has begun stocking the Sipeed Tang Primer FPGA development board, a sub-$18 part which features an Anlogic EG4S20 FPGA running a RISC-V soft core. Designed to offer a full RISC-V implementation in a very small form factor, the Tang is based around… Read More

Hailey Lynne McKeefry on the Procurement Benefits of Open Source Hardware

EBN editor-in-chief Hailey Lynne McKeefry has penned a piece pointing to the considerable benefits of open hardware, and in particular the RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA), to the procurement process. “It’s clear that open source hardware will have a ripple effect, not just on design, but also on procurement practices,”… Read More

Generic Node Offers Multi-Sensor LoRaWAN Platform at $25 Price Point

A new LoRaWAN sensor platform, dubbed Generic Node, promises to bring low-cost deployment to a wider audience with nine sensors built into a device which is claimed to be available for $25 a unit in medium volume quantities. The LoRaWAN long-range low-power wide area network protocol is at the heart… Read More

“Arm’s Days Could Be Numbered,” Claims RISC-V Vendor

EE Times correspondent Nitin Dahad has pointed to growing troubles for embedded processing giant Arm, and the source should be of no surprise: the growing tide of free and open source silicon (FOSSi) designs, including RISC-V. That the ability to literally clone a GitHub repository and have a fully-working processor… Read More

RIPE NCC’s Marco Hogewoning on IoT Regulation in the UK

Marco Hogewoning, of the RIPE Network Coordination Centre (RIPE NCC), has taken on the topic of regulating the Internet of Things (IoT) in the UK – and highlights that “while there could be benefits […] there are also a lot of challenges.” In a piece penned for Information Age, Marco… Read More

Building a RISC-V PC

How we assembled a RISC-V desktop computer. (video at the bottom of this post.) While it’s clear that the most significant opportunities for RISC-V will be in democratising custom silicon for accelerating specific tasks and enabling new applications — and it’s already driving a renaissance in novel computer architectures, for… Read More