Semiconductor Engineering

Increasing Design Flexibility With RISC-V-Based Processor IP

The semiconductor industry increasingly needs more flexible and scalable processor architectures, driving the growing adoption of RISC-V. Originally developed at the University of California, Berkeley ...
Semiconductor Engineering

An Insider’s View Of Verifying Custom RISC-V Processor Cores

The challenge was to improve the performance for the HDD (hard disk drive) servo controllers with a new embedded processor core beyond the mainstream offering of the available IP providers. The key ...
Nasdaq

Lattice Propel Design Environment Supports New RISC-V Processor and IP Cores

HILLSBORO, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Lattice Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: LSCC), the low power programmable leader, today announced a new version of Lattice Propel™, a design environment for ...
Electronic Design

Adding Soft-Core RISC-V to FPGAs Improves Programmability

Advantages of using a soft-core RISC-V processor. The type of performance you can expect from using a soft-core RISC-V processor on the Speedster 7t. A full list of configurable features available on ...
Electronic Design

RISC-V to Launch into Space

This article is part of the TechXchange: RISC-V: The Instruction-Set Alternative. SiFive, a startup developing IP based on the RISC-V architecture, said NASA has selected it to supply the core CPU for ...
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Ubitium announces development of 'universal' processor that combines CPU, GPU, DSP, and FPGA functionalities – RISC-V powered chip slated to arrive in two years

The semiconductor industry produces many kinds of distinct processors, but RISC-V startup Ubitium says it’s working on a single architecture that can rule them all. Emerging from stealth sometime this ...
Business Wire

Bluespec Launches New MCUX RISC-V Processor That Enables Developers to Implement Custom Instructions and Add Accelerators

FRAMINGHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Bluespec Inc. today announced its new MCUX RISC-V processor that makes it easy for developers to implement custom instructions and add accelerators to FPGAs and ...
EDN

XAP RISC processor moves up to 32 bits

Cambridge Consultants Ltd. has produced a third member of its XAP family of RISC processor cores, optimized to handle 32-bit data. Available for license as a Verilog RTL file, the design can be ...
Ars Technica

Researchers build a RISC-V processor using a 2D semiconductor

Given enough memory it should be possible to run Linux on any turing machine, I did a bit of searching and there's no clear consensus on the number of transistors required to make such a machine, but ...
Ars Technica

Move over, ARM: BeagleV is a $150 RISC-V computer designed to run Linux

BeagleV is an affordable way to get your feet wet with RISC-V Linux computing. RISC-V is a CPU ISA (Instruction Set Architecture) family, like x86_64 (the architecture in most PCs and laptops) or ARM ...