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 ...
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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 ...

The ISA Wars Have Ended And The Heterogeneous CPU Era Has Arrived

CPU architectures in a single system, whether that is a single system-on-chip (SoC) or a larger electronics platform ...
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 ...
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 ...