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HiFive1 Rev B – An open source, RISC-V development platform with wireless connectivity
HiFive1 Rev B - The Second Generation HiFive1 Dev Board and the Freedom Everywhere SoC, FE310 SiFive launched an upgraded Freedom Everywhere SoC and corresponding development kit, the HiFive1 Rev B, powered by SiFive’s E31 CPU, the FE310-G002. A small yet mighty 68 mm x 51 mm, the...
Continue ReadingHiFive Unleashed – The First RISC-V-based Linux development board
RISC-V is an open specification of an Instruction Set Architecture (ISA). That is, it describes the way in which software talks to an underlying processor – just like the x86 ISA for Intel/AMD processors and the ARM ISA for ARM processors. Unlike those, however, the RISC-V ISA is open...
Continue ReadingCinque, Combining RISC-V With Arduino
After announcing "HiFive1" at the end of 2016, SiFive is introducing its second RISC-V based development board "The Arduino Cinque". It is the first Arduino board that is featuring RISC-V instruction set architecture. Arduino Cinque is running SiFive’s Freedom E310, one of the fastest...
Continue ReadingOpen Source Meets Hardware: Open Processor Core
SiFive, the first fabless provider of customized, open-source-enabled semiconductors, had recently announced the availability of its Freedom Everywhere 310 (FE310) system on a chip (SoC), the industry’s first commercially available SoC based on the free and open RISC-V instruction set...
Continue ReadingHiFive1, An Open-Source RISC-V Development Kit
By bringing the power of open-source and agile hardware design to the semiconductor industry, SiFive aims to increase the performance and efficiency of customized silicon chips with lower cost. The Freedom E310 (FE310) is the first member of the Freedom Everywhere SoCs family, a series...
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