Tag: RISC-V
Espressif Leaks RISC-V Powered ESP8266 Pin-Compatible ESP32-C3
The ESP32-C3 is a WiFi SoC that contains a RISC-V core in place of the Tensilica core in the ESP32 we are all familiar with. It uses the ESP8266 pin-out. As with other ESP32 family members, this one delivers b/g/n WiFi and Bluetooth LE 5, where it differs is the RISC-V 32 Single-core...
Continue ReadingSiFive Linux PC and Dev Board with Open Source RISC-V Processors
SiFive published the news that it is creating a platform for Linux-based personal computers based on RISC-V processors to use them in PCs. This could be the move in the right direction to make to create Linux-based PCs that use royalty-free processors. At the moment, these development PCs...
Continue ReadingDT-BL10 – Low-Power IoT Development Board Powered by RISC-V Core
DT-BL10 is a development board powered by BL602 WiSoC that sells for around $5. This board is specifically designed to work with a 32-bit RISC-V CPU with dynamic frequency from 1MHz to 192MHz. It has a 276KB SRAM and 128KB ROM. The main focus of this board is on its wide range of...
Continue ReadingMicrochip PolarFire SoC FPGA Icicle Kit
Microchip’s PolarFire SoC FPGA Icicle Kit is an evaluation platform for the company’s mid-range PolarFire SoC FPGA family, a portfolio of RISC-V-based devices that contain secure hardware features, are capable of running off-the-shelf Linux and/or real-time operating systems (RTOS),...
Continue ReadingMoushik- A Complete Made-in-India Microprocessor And SoC for IoT Devices
Researchers at IIT Madras have successfully booted up ‘Moushik', a microprocessor that has been indigenously designed and fabricated in India. The design was done in IIT Madras, the fabrication at the ISRO Semiconductor Laboratory in Chandigarh. So this is a complete made in India...
Continue ReadingRV32E Floating-Point library offers 72% code size reduction
SEGGER announces a new version of the RISC-V Floating-Point Library with full support for RV32E – the embedded variant of the RISC-V core. The new library leads to a massive reduction in code size for RISC-V applications using floating point. With all arithmetic functions hand-coded...
Continue ReadingRISC-V-based System-on-Chip (SoC) FPGA Development Kit from Microchip for PolarFire SoC
Microchip Technology Inc. has introduced a RISC-V-based System-on-Chip (SoC) Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) development kit for PolarFire® SoC FPGA. The Icicle Development Kit allows the designers who need a programmable RISC-V based SOC FPGA to develop and evaluate the broad...
Continue ReadingAlibaba Speaks More on it’s XT910 RISC-V Core Claimed to be Faster Than An Arm Cortex-A73
Alibaba has provided more details on its first RISC-V-based product; A 16-core RISC-V processor called the XT 910. As at the time of its release in July 2019, not much was said about the XuanTie 910 except that it was targeted towards the high-performance end to end 5G, AI, and...
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