Tag: RISC-V

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Tom Verbeure’s Deep-Dive Into WD’s SweRV RISC-V Core

Tom Verbeure has published comments on a deep-dive of the Western Digital SweRV open-source RISC-V core, following a workshop at the Bay Area RISC-V Meetup earlier this year. Announced late last year and released under a permissive licence in January, the SweRV Core is Western Digital’s open-source implementation… Read More

Calista Redmond Named as RISC-V Foundation CEO

The RISC-V Foundation has announced the appointment of IBM alumnus Calista Redmond as chief executive officer, taking over from interim chief Martin Fink. Calista Redmond’s work history includes 20 years of senior-level management and alliance experience at companies including Affinity Lab and Articulated Impact, including 12 years at IBM where… Read More

Seeed Studio MAIX-1 Raspberry Pi AI Hat Layout

Seeed Details RISC-V Raspberry Pi AI HAT, Development Board

Seeed Studio has announced a new Grove AI HAT for the Raspberry Pi, designed for edge computing projects, based around the Sipeed MAIX-I 64-bit RISC-V system-on-module (SOM) – and, interestingly, it will also function as a standalone development board. Unveiled on the official Seeed forum by Elaine Wu, the new… Read More

Linux Kernel 5.0 Launches with New RISC-V Features, Fixes

Linus Torvalds has announced the release of Linux 5.0, the latest version of the Linux kernel, and once again it pulls in a range of improvements and new features for the RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA). Linux has boasted support for the open RISC-V ISA for a while, now, to… Read More

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

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

“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

RISC-V Growth Showcased by Bumper Embedded World 2019 Showing

The free and open-source silicon (FOSSi) ecosystem continues to grow, and nowhere will that growth be more obvious than at the Embedded World 2019 conference this year where 17 companies will be exhibiting RISC-V implementations and supporting technologies alone. Due to take place at the NürnbergMesse, Germany, from Tuesday the… Read More