Renesas Electronics Corporation has introduced the industry’s inaugural general-purpose 32-bit RISC-V-based microcontrollers (MCUs) featuring an internally developed CPU core. While many MCU providers have recently collaborated in investment alliances to propel RISC-V product development, Renesas has independently designed and tested a new RISC-V core, now integrated into a commercial product available worldwide. The new R9A02G021 […]
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Debugging probe covers RISC-V and Arm processors
The new flagship model J-Trace PRO is now the “all-in-one” probe for any popular CPU core and architecture. It combines all the debug capabilities of the market-leading J-Link series with all the analyzing, verifying, and code-profiling features of the J-Trace series to get a truly one-stop solution. J-Trace PRO offers multi-platform support (RISC-V, Arm), up […]
RISC-V processor boasts 40 percent performance improvement
Ventana Micro Systems Inc. announced the second generation of its Veyron family of RISC-V processors. The new Veyron V2 is the highest-performance RISC-V processor available today and is offered in the form of chiplets and IP. Ventana provides a Software Development Kit (SDK) which includes a comprehensive set of software building blocks already proven on […]
Security model provides system-level approach to securing RISC-V designs
SiFive, Inc. announced the company is giving the WorldGuard security model to RISC-V International, providing the RISC-V community with a uniform way to secure their designs and bring them to market faster. RISC-V International is the non-profit home of the open standard RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture (ISA), related specifications, and stakeholder community which has more […]
Software-defined SoC platform now compatible with RSIC-V
XMOS reveals a RISC-V-compatible architecture for the fourth generation of its xcore platform. The collaboration delivers the flexibility to define entire systems in software, enabling RISC-V programmers to rapidly realize the most differentiated and economical solutions to the intelligent IoT. By transitioning to a RISC-V compatible architecture, more embedded system designers will have access […]
RISC-V processor runs at 3.6 GHz in 5nm
Ventana Micro Systems Inc. announced its Veyron family of high-performance RISC-V processors. The Veyron V1 is the first member of the family, and the highest-performance RISC-V processor available. It will be offered in the form of high-performance chipsets and IP. Ventana Founder and CEO Balaji Baktha will make the public announcement during his RISC-V Summit […]
Scalable RISC-V multiprocessor IP promotes efficient SoC uses
As the shift toward RISC-V accelerates across industries, the open standard instruction set architecture (ISA) is ushering in a new wave of innovation and collaboration. In an effort to help fuel this trend, MIPS has announced the availability of the eVocore P8700, the industry’s highest-performance, most scalable RISC-V multiprocessor IP. The P8700 has already been […]
Linux platform supports RISC-V embedded development
Siemens Digital Industries Software announced that its Sokol Flex OS software now supports RISC-V embedded development with the availability of one of the industry’s first commercially supported, extensible, and customizable Linux platforms for the RISC-V architecture. Based on the popular, open-source Yocto Project industry standard, Siemens‘ Sokol Flex OS helps embedded developers create customized, Linux-based […]
RISC-V: The background, the benefits, and the future
by Mark Lippett, CEO of XMOS US developers conceived the revolutionary instruction set architecture (ISA) known as RISC-V in 2010. Grounded in reduced instruction set computer (RISC) principles, it’s a common, open-source, and completely free ISA that can be used to develop software and hardware. These attributes are just part of what makes the architecture […]
SDK works with CoDense AndeStar V5 RISC-V processor
IAR Systems has just announced the full support of their latest release of the IAR Embedded Workbench for RISC-V for the CoDense extension of Andes Technology’s AndeStar V5 RISC-V processor. CoDense is a patented extension of the processor’s ISA (Instruction Set Architecture) which helps IAR’s toolchain to generate a compact code – for saving flash […]
