Tag: RISC-V

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Rattled Arm Launches Anti-RISC-V Marketing Campaign

The growing impetus behind the free and open source silicon (FOSSi) RISC-V project appears to have industry incumbents rattled, with Arm launching an aggressive marketing campaign which attempts to sow the seeds of doubt in engineers’ minds about the ISA’s benefits versus Arm’s own proprietary intellectual property (IP). Following the… Read More

Renode 1.4 Brings HiFive Unleashed, Freedom E310 Support

Renode, Antmicro’s virtual development tool for multinode embedded networks, has received support for SiFive’s Freedom E310 and HiFive Unleashed development boards. “Renode was created based on many years of experience with the development of software for embedded systems – both for gateways, on-board computers as well as sensor nodes and… Read More

RISC-V Foundation Forms Security Standing Committee

The RISC-V Foundation, the driving force behind the eponymous open processor architecture, has announced the formation of a security standing committee – and is asking for cooperation from the broader industry. “As the number of connected devices grows exponentially and new security vulnerabilities like Meltdown and Spectre emerge, it’s become… Read More

Getting Started with the HiFive Unleashed

Creating a new bootable Micro SD card, building a custom Poky Linux system, and running Debian on the world’s first RISC-V-based, Linux-capable development board. The HiFive Unleashed was unveiled back at FOSDEM only a matter of months ago and so, unsurprisingly, it’s still relatively early days for Linux… Read More

HiFive Unleashed Gets Packed PolarFire Powered Expansion

World’s first Linux-capable RISC-V development board benefits from expansion that adds PCIe, M.2 SSD, SATA, HDMI, a 300K element PolarFire FPGA, and more. Launched back in February at FOSDEM the HiFive Unleashed RISC-V development board boasts a 64-bit Freedom U540 SoC with features that include a 4+1 Multi-Core Coherent… Read More

OnChip Announces New 32-bit RISC-V Microcontroller

Colombia-based semiconductor specialist OnChip has announced a 32-bit RISC-V microcontroller design aimed at low-power sensor applications, developed in partnership with SiFive. Fresh from announcing the next generation of Itsy-Chipsy, the company’s low-quantity semiconductor fabrication platform which aims to allow the creation of single-unit DIP-packaged chips for around $100, OnChip… Read More

Debian Linux Receives Official 64-bit RISC-V Port

The Debian Linux distribution now has an official 64-bit RISC-V bootstrap in its ports infrastructure, allowing packages to be easily downloaded for use on the growing number of RISC-V devices on the market. “We’ve been working in the last few weeks to do a (second) bootstrap of Debian for RISC-V,… Read More

CRU: Security, Open Consumer Products, Solderpad Hardware Licence 2.0, and More

GreenWaves Technologies has officially launched GAP8, its RISC-V based low-power application processor for Internet of Things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI) applications. Based on the work of the Parallel Ultra Low Power (PULP) project, GAP8 was first shown off as a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) core back in March… Read More

RISC-V’s Potential Highlighted in Low Start-up Costs

The benefit of an open instruction set architecture (ISA) like RISC-V have been laid bare in a piece by Stacey Higginbotham which puts the real-world cost of launching your own RISC-V semiconductor company below the cost of simply licensing proprietary intellectual property (IP) from a company like Arm. Following… Read More

CRU: PULP Launches, RISC-V Fedora, LoRa, and More

The PULP (Parallel Ultra Low Power) Platform, a joint project between ETH Zurich and University of Bologna, had a busy February beginning with the release of the PULPissimo RISC-V microcontroller core, designed to take over from the more basic PULPino. “Today we are happy to announce PULPissimo, a new single-core… Read More

PULPissimo RISC-V Microcontroller Core Released

The PULP (Parallel Ultra Low Power) Platform, a joint project between ETH Zurich and University of Bologna, has announced the release of the PULPissimo RISC-V microcontroller core, designed to take over from the more basic PULPino – and is also teasing a 64-bit multi-core Linux-ready RISC-V core dubbed Ariane. “Today… Read More

CRU: Events, HiFive Unleashed, Open ASIC Design and More

The Free and Open Source Silicon Foundation has announced that ORConf 2018 will be held over the weekend of September 21st to 23rd in Gdansk, Poland. Now in its seventh year, ORConf is a free-to-attend conference for open source digital, semiconductor, and embedded systems design engineers. What started… Read More