SiFive Launches the World’s Smallest Commercial 64-bit Embedded Core
https://www.electronics-lab.com/sifive-launches-worlds-smallest-commercial-64-bit-embedded-core/
RISC-V Leader brings unmatched advanced 64-bit Core IP capability to embedded space. SiFive, the leading provider of commercial RISC-V processor IP, yesterday announced the launch of the S2 Core IP Series at the Linley Spring Processor Conference in Santa Clara. The S2 Core IP Series is a 64-bit addition to SiFive’s 2 Series Core IP […]
Grove HAT for Raspberry Pi Features A New RISC-V-Based AI Chip
https://www.electronics-lab.com/grove-hat-raspberry-pi-features-new-risc-v-based-ai-chip/
New Grove AI HAT for Edge Computing is released from SeedStudio Seeed Studio announced a Grove HAT for Raspberry Pi based on the Sipeed RISC-V MAix. This follows after Sipeed launched their 64-bit RISC-V MAix module, crowdfunding a series of boards on Indiegogo at the end of last year. The MAix module is based on […]
Fomu Runs MicroPython And Fits Into Your USB Port
https://www.electronics-lab.com/fomu-runs-micropython-fits-usb-port/
When it comes to the world of Microcontrollers, FPGAs, DSPs, or basically anything related to embedded devices, we have traditionally been accustomed to something averagely big (in regards to this domain) and even created some standards like SBCs (Single Board Computers) to categorize devices. What if we could have development boards that goes beyond the […]
Sipeed M1 – an AI Embedded Platform for Edge Computing
https://www.electronics-lab.com/sipeed-m1-ai-embedded-platform-edge-computing/
Artificial Intelligence has been the talks of most markets and development in the last few years. It is widely believed that the products and solutions of tomorrow will have one form of artificial intelligence built into them. Companies and Organisation are spending millions of dollars in R&D in the areas of AI in health, AI in transportation, […]
DarkRISC-V Targets low-cost Xilinx Spartan-6 Family of FPGAs
https://www.electronics-lab.com/darkrisc-v-targets-low-cost-xilinx-spartan-6-family-of-fpgas/
Developed in the dark hours of the night, between 2 and 8 o’clock in the morning of August 19th by Marcelo Samsoniuk, the DarkRISC-V stack is an experimental open source implementation of the RISC-V standard targeting the low-cost Xilinx Spartan-6 family of FPGAs. Following a week of debugging, Samsoniuk has released the implementation to GitHub […]
LoFive – Tiny RISC-V Microcontroller Board
https://www.electronics-lab.com/lofive-tiny-risc-v-microcontroller-board/
Small breadboard friendly development board using the SiFive FE310 RISC-V Microcontroller. MCU – SiFive Freedom E310 (FE310) 32-bit RV32IMAC processor @ up to 320+ MHz (1.61 DMIPS/MHz) Storage – 128-Mbit SPI flash (ISSI IS25LP128) Expansion – 2x 14-pin headers with JTAG, GPIO, PWM, SPI, UART, 5V, 3.3V and GND Misc – 1x reset button, 16 […]
Cinque, Combining RISC-V With Arduino
https://www.electronics-lab.com/cinque-combining-risc-v-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 and powerful microcontrollers in the hardware market. It also includes built-in Wi-Fi […]
Open-V, The Open Source RISC-V 32bit Microcontroller
https://www.electronics-lab.com/open-v-open-source-risc-v-32bit-mcu/
Open source has finally arrived to microcontrollers. Based on RISC-V instruction set, a group of doctoral students at the Universidad Industrial de Santander in Colombia have been working on an open source 32-bit chip called “Open-V“. Onchip, the startup of the research team, is focusing on integrated systems and is aiming to build the first system-on-chip designed in Colombia. The […]
Open Source Meets Hardware: Open Processor Core
https://www.electronics-lab.com/open-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 architecture. The Freedom E310 (FE310) is the first member of the Freedom Everywhere family of […]
HiFive1, An Open-Source RISC-V Development Kit
https://www.electronics-lab.com/hifive1-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 of customizable microcontroller SoC platforms, designed based on SiFive’s E31 […]