Semiconductor Engineering

Manage Your Risk In RISC-V

Adoption of RISC-V processors is accelerating. This technology, like everything, comes with benefits and risks. The open standard means freedom for many developers, but success depends on the ...
Hackaday

RISC-V: Why The ISA Battles Aren’t Over Yet

A computer processor uses a so-called Instruction Set Architecture to talk with the world outside of its own circuitry. This ISA consists of a number of instructions, which essentially define the ...
Design-Reuse

Debugging complex RISC-V processors

RISC-V processors are quickly becoming mainstream. The open standard means freedom for many developers, but success depends on the development of a support ecosystem around RISC-V. Industry ...
Electronic Design

RISC-V: The Instruction-Set Alternative

First and foremost, RISC-V is a modular, open-source, instruction set definition and nothing more. RISC-V as an ecosystem is much more. The instruction set provides the encoding and semantics, but it ...
Design-Reuse

SpacemiT makes important breakthroughs in RISC-V High-Performance Cores

January 5, 2023 -- We’re excited to share some recent progress in the development of our first-generation RISC-V fusion computing processor core – the X100. X100 has already made significant leaps ...
ZDNet

RISC-V, the Linux of the chip world, is starting to produce technological breakthroughs

A decade ago, an idea was born in a laboratory at the University of California at Berkeley to create a lingua franca for computer chips, a set of instructions that would be used by all chipmakers and ...
Engadget

RISC-V is trying to launch an open-hardware revolution | Upscaled

For more background, check out our Apple and ARM video. RISC-V is a processor architecture and instruction set developed at UC Berkeley. It's attracted huge interest from everyone from startups to ...