Semiconductor Engineering

No One-Size-Fits-All Approach To RISC-V Processor Optimization

As the demand for high-performance processors continues to grow and semiconductor scaling laws continue to show their limits, the need for processor optimization is inevitable. As I explained in a ...
Hackaday

High Performance RISC-V

From the Institute of Computing Technology division of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Peng Cheng Laboratory comes a high-performance and well-documented RISC-V core called XiangShan. In the Git ...
Business Wire

OpenHW Group Announces CORE-V CVA6 Platform Project for RISC-V Software Development & Testing

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, at the RISC-V Summit, the OpenHW Group announced the multi-member CORE-V CVA6 Platform project. The platform is an open-source FPGA-based software ...

SiFive's $400M Round Signals A RISC-V Moment In AI Data Centers

SiFive's oversubscribed series G round of financing suggests the industry's historical caution around the RISC-V architecture ...
Nasdaq

Synopsys Expands Its ARC Processor IP Portfolio with New RISC-V Family

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Nov. 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today announced it has extended its ARC® Processor IP portfolio to include new RISC-V ARC-V™ Processor IP, enabling ...
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 ...
Geeky Gadgets

RISC-V Revolution: How Open Processors Are Changing the CPU Market

RISC-V, an open instruction set architecture (ISA), is reshaping the global computing landscape. Unlike proprietary ISAs such as x86, widely used by Intel and AMD, or ARM, which dominates mobile and ...
Geeky Gadgets

Synopsys unveils innovative RISC-V ARC-V processor IP for next-gen chip design

If you’re closely following the semiconductor space, you will be pleased to know that Synopsys, Inc. has made a significant announcement this week. With the introduction of the new RISC-V ARC-V ...
Hackaday

Writing A RISC-V OS From Scratch

If you read Japanese, you might have seen the book “Design and Implementation of Microkernels” by [Seiya Nuda]. An appendix covers how to write your own operating system for RISC-V in about 1,000 ...
EDN

AI is stress-testing processor architectures and RISC-V fits the moment

Every major computing era has been defined not by technology, but by a dominant workload—and by how well processor architectures adapted to it. The personal computer era rewarded general-purpose ...
Embedded

RISC-V as you like it: the ‘first’ fully configurable 64-bit processor core

We’ve heard the story before. I was a proponent of it in the late 1990s, with the ‘first fully configurable’ processor core. So, did we already experience the ‘first’ one many years ago, or was the ...
Semiconductor Engineering

RISC-V Heralds New Era Of Cooperation

RISC-V is paving the way for open source to become accepted within the hardware community, creating a level of industry collaboration never seen in the past, while revitalizing the connection between ...