Tag: RISC-V

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Alibaba’s T-Head Releases Four RISC-V Cores Under a Permissive Licence

Alibaba has released the source code for its XuanTie E902, E906, C906, and C910 RISC-V processor cores, promising to follow their release with additional development tools, software development kits, and customisations in the future. Designed by Alibaba’s T-Head semiconductor arm, the XuanTie C906 was launched as a low-power in-order core… Read More

RISC-V International Launches Development Board Giveaway

RISC-V International, a non-profit which aims to further develop and promote the use of the free and open-source RISC-V instruction set architecture, has announced a giveaway: Members can apply now to receive a free RISC-V development board with up to 16GB of RAM. “RISC-V is now being engineered into everything… Read More

Alibaba’s T-Head Releases Full Android 10 Port for RISC-V

T-Head, the semiconductor division of Alibaba, has released the source code for a functional port of Android 10 to the RISC-V architecture – including a guide to getting it up and running in the QEMU emulator. The earliest success in porting the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) version of Android… Read More

Open-Hardware BeagleV, at $149, is the Most Affordable RISC-V Linux Computer Yet

BeagleBoard.org and Seeed Studio, in partnership with StarFive, have opened applications for an open-source, highly-affordable, Linux-capable RISC-V single-board computer: the $149 BeagleV. Launching with an initial pilot production batch in late March to early April, the BeagleV is an open-source single-board computer built around a StarFive system-on-chip implementing SiFIve’s U74… Read More

RISC-V Gets an Early, Minimal Android 10 Port Courtesy of PLCT Lab

PLCT Lab, a group working on compilers, runtimes, and emulators, has announced a milestone for its effort to port the Android Open Source project to the free and open-source RISC-V instruction set architecture: a successful minimal boot, with step-by-step instructions for trying it out yourself. With increasing interest in using… Read More

A Look at the RISC-V PC from SiFive

On October 29th 2020 SiFive announced the first-ever RISC-V Linux development platform with a PC form factor, the HiFive Unmatched. Read More

An Overview of SHAKTI Processor Program

SHAKTI is an open-source processor program based on RISC-V ISA and is an academic initiative started in 2014, by Reconfigurable Intelligent Systems Engineering (RISE) Group in IIT-Madras. The motivation of the SHAKTI project was to create an open-source processor ecosystem, to increase collaborations between academia and industry. The program aims to include open-source production grade processors, SoCs, and even development boards. Read More

SHAKTI Announces Third Silicon Success with the Arduino-Compatible Moushik

The SHAKTI free and open source silicon project has reached another milestone with the boot up of the Moushik, an Arduino-compatible system-on-chip (SoC) and the group’s third successful silicon tape-out. The SHAKTI project first announced its success in booting Linux on a home-grown RISC-V based processor back in 2018,… Read More

RISC-V Foundation Formally Ratifies the Processor Trace Specification

The RISC-V Foundation has announced the formal ratification of the processor trace specification, introducing a standardised trace encoder algorithm for the free and open-source instruction set architecture as a means of assisting with debugging. “RISC-V is rapidly gaining popularity due to its open and modular design that supports customisation on… Read More

RISC-V Foundation Announces RISC-V Summit 2019 Agenda

The RISC-V Foundation has announced the agenda for its second annual RISC-V summit, taking place this December in San Jose, California. “The RISC-V Foundation, in partnership with Informa’s Tech Division, is hosting its annual RISC-V Summit, a four-day conference featuring keynotes, smaller breakout sessions, tutorials, exhibitions and networking receptions, as… Read More

The Economist Switches On to the Potential of Free and Open Source Silicon

The free and open source silicon movement is continuing to capture mainstream interest, with The Economist becoming the latest publication to examine the impact the movement is having both generally and in specific cases. There’s a temptation to view free and open source silicon purely in terms of economic value… Read More

Linux 5.3 Released After Extra RC, Brings Numerous RISC-V Improvements

Linus Torvalds has officially launched Linux 5.3, the latest release of the popular open-source kernel, and it brings with it a range of improvements and new features for the RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA). “So we’ve had a fairly quiet last week, but I think it was good that we… Read More