Tag: FOSSi

SiFive Freedom E310 processor

Get the latest news on developments in the wider community and topics including wireless, embedded and open source silicon.

Intel Movidius Myriad 2 VPU

CRU: RISC-V, LoRa, Movidius, and More

The rise of low-power long-range radio technologies like LoRaWAN has been a boon for the Internet of Things (IoT), but working in radio brings unique challenges – as demonstrated by Embedded.com’s new guide to optimising the performance of embedded radios. Written by Chris Lamb and Rod Williams, the guide… Read More

OSDDI: Elkim Roa, OnChip UIS

A modern microntroller or system-on-chip is much more than simply a processor and some digital peripherals, typically integrating a selection of analogue IP also. In this latest episode of Open Source Digital Design Insights we speak with Professor Elkim Roa, Head of the OnChip Group at UIS Colombia, who… Read More
Esperanto 'AI'

Esperanto Announces 4,112-Core RISC-V AI Chip

Esperanto, a company run by The Case for RISC co-authors Dave Ditzel and Dave Patterson, has announced its first RISC-V products – including a 4,112-core processor aimed at high-performance artificial intelligence (AI) applications. Detailed in full on WikiChip Fuse, Esperanto’s aim is to produce three intellectual property (IP) core… Read More

OSDDI: Davide Rossi, PULP Platform

The IoT and sensor network focused Parallel Ultra Low Power (PULP) platform is described as a “silicon-proven parallel platform for ultra-low power computing targeting high energy efficiencies”. It is organised in clusters of RISC-V cores that share tightly coupled data memory and comprised of IPs described in SystemVerilog. The… Read More
SiFive Freedom E310 processor

CRU: Rusty RISC-V, LoRa, FPGA Brains, and More

Opal Kelly has launched a crowdfunding campaign to produce a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) development board, Brain-1, featuring its Syzygy open standard for high-performance peripheral connectivity. Designed to coexist with existing interconnection standards including PMOD and FMC, Syzygy is claimed to be entirely vendor-agnostic and compatible with products from… Read More

Rust Comes to RISC-V

RISC-V architecture gets support for language that enables development of highly concurrent and highly safe systems. The Rust language has a syntax that is similar to C/C++ and is targeted at the development of systems that are both highly concurrent and safe, finding use in everything from a microkernel O/S… Read More

CRU: RISC-V, OpenRISC, LoRaWAN, and More

The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has received a proposal for a cross-vendor standard designed to offer a solid and secure mechanism for updating the firmware of Internet of Things (IoT) devices in the field. Written by Arm engineers Brendan Moran, Milosch Meriac, and Hannes Tschofenig, the draft – titled… Read More