Microchip PolarFire SoC FPGA Icicle Kit
https://www.electronics-lab.com/microchip-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), and consume up to 60 percent less power than competing FPGA solutions, according to the company. […]
Moushik- A Complete Made-in-India Microprocessor And SoC for IoT Devices
https://www.electronics-lab.com/moushik-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 Microprocessor same as we saw with AJIT. Moushik is the third […]
RV32E Floating-Point library offers 72% code size reduction
https://www.electronics-lab.com/rv32e-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 in assembly language, the memory footprint of RISC-V applications using […]
RISC-V-based System-on-Chip (SoC) FPGA Development Kit from Microchip for PolarFire SoC
https://www.electronics-lab.com/risc-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 network of RISC-V ecosystem products such as Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS), debuggers, compilers, System On […]
Alibaba Speaks More on it’s XT910 RISC-V Core Claimed to be Faster Than An Arm Cortex-A73
https://www.electronics-lab.com/alibaba-speaks-more-on-its-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 autonomous driving applications. But during […]
Sipeed Maix Amigo Development Board Based on RV64GC (RISC-V)
https://www.electronics-lab.com/sipeed-maix-amigo-development-board-based-on-rv64gc-risc-v/
Seeed Studio has announced the Sipeed Maix Amigo, which is a portable 64-bit RISC-V development kit powered by Kendryte K210 RISC-V AI processor. The release of the Sipeed Maix Amigo rivals the Wio terminal, Wio terminal is a simple and tiny device to build I/O with the physical world, equipped with a 2.4 inch LCD and […]
PolarFire SoC Icicle Kit features quad core 64-bit RISC-V
https://www.electronics-lab.com/polarfire-soc-icicle-kit-features-quad-core-64-bit-risc-v/
PolarFire SoC Icicle Kit is an affordable development tool for Microchip’s PolarFireSoC, a low-power FPGA fused or integrated with a hardened quad-core 64-bit RISC-V microprocessor subsystem. The Icicle tool is the first development panel for the significant Polarfire SoC, which is the world’s first FPGA and Linux-capable RISC-V system in a single chip. If your […]
Aries Launches RISC-V based PolarFire SoC module
https://www.electronics-lab.com/aries-launches-risc-v-based-polarfire-soc-module/
Aries Embedded has launched a Linux-powered, FPGA-enabled RISC-V SoC from Microchip’s Micro semi unit, called the M100PFS. It is one of the first compute modules equipped with the PolarFire SoC. The M100PFS features an identical 74 x 42mm footprint as Aries’ similar M100PF module, which is equipped with the PolarFire FPGA without the Linux-ready RISC-V […]
Espressif Next Gen ESP32-S2 SoC and family goes into Mass Production
https://www.electronics-lab.com/espressif-next-gen-esp32-s2-soc-family-goes-mass-production/
Back in 2019, Espressif announces the launch of ESP32-S2 SoC, which was an upgrade of the regular of ESP32 but targetted for security-focused applications. Unlike the typical ESP32, this new SoC comes with an array of new features. Fasttrack to February 2020, Espressif has announced that the ESP32-S2 SoCs have now been cleared for mass […]
ONiO.zero RISC-V Microcontroller Functions On Harvested Energy
https://www.electronics-lab.com/onio-zero-risc-v-microcontroller-functions-harvested-energy/
ONiO, a Norwegian healthcare-focused Internet of Things (IoT) expert has unveiled ONiO.zero, an ultra-low-power RISC-V-based microcontroller capable of operating solely from harvested energy — without needing a battery, capacitor, or any other means of energy storage. The company says “ONiO.zero is an ultra-low-power wireless MCU that uses energy harvesting technology.” This indicates that the ONiO.zero […]