Semiconductor Engineering

Selecting The Right RISC-V Core

With an increasing number of companies interested in devices based on the RISC-V ISA, and a growing number of cores, accelerators, and infrastructure components being made available, either ...
Business Wire

SiFive Performance P550 Core Sets New Standard as Highest Performance RISC-V Processor IP

SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SiFive, Inc., the industry leader in RISC-V processors and silicon solutions, today launched the new SiFive Performance family of processors. The SiFive Performance ...
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 ...
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 ...
EDN

Renesas launches MPUs based on 64-bit RISC-V CPU core

Expanding its existing family of Arm CPU-core based microprocessors (MPUs), Renesas Electronics has launched the RZ/Five general-purpose MPUs based on a 64-bit RISC-V CPU core. The RZ/Five uses the ...
Liliputing

SiFive Performance P550 is the most powerful RISC-V processor to date

Chip designer SiFive has unveiled two new processor cores featuring RISC-V architecture, including the new SiFive Performance P270 and SiFive Performance P550 processor. The company says the latter is ...
Ars Technica

SiFive’s brand-new P550 is one of the world’s fastest RISC-V CPUs

For those not immediately familiar with RISC-V, it is a relatively new CPU architecture which takes advantage of Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC) principles. RISC-V is an open standard ...