EDN

Development kit pairs RISC-V and FPGA

The PolarFire SoC Discovery Kit from Microchip makes RISC-V and FPGA design accessible to a wider range of embedded engineers. This low-cost development platform allows students, beginners, and ...
Electronic Design

RISC-V FPGA Design Leaps Forward with Mi-V

A longtime supporter of the RISC-V (pronounced RISC Five) instruction set architecture (ISA), Microsemi provides tools and RISC-V soft cores for its various FPGA lines, including the recently unveiled ...
EDN

FPGA prototyping harnessed for RISC-V processor cores

FPGA-based prototyping solutions provider S2C has teamed up with RISC-V processor IP supplier Andes Technology to enhance prototyping capabilities for system-on-chip (SoC) designs. This collaboration ...
Hackaday

RISC-V CPU Gets A Peripheral

One of the ways people use FPGAs is to have part of the FPGA fabric hold a CPU. That makes sense because CPUs are good at some jobs that are hard to do with an FPGA, and vice versa. Now that the ...
Electronic Design

Secure FPGA RISC-V SoC Forgoes Heatsink

How a cool FPGA needs so little power. The importance of a smaller RISC-V SoC FPGA. What the PolarFire SoC means to RISC-V developers. Why security and reliability are key to PolarFire’s success. Very ...
Electronics Weekly

Linux-capable RISC-V soft cores for Achronix FPGAs

Achronix has teamed up with Bluespec to offer a family of Linux-capable RISC-V soft processors for the Speedster7t FPGA family. “Bluespec’s RISC-V processors now integrate into the Achronix 2D network ...
Business Wire

RISC-V SoftCPU Contest Winners Demonstrate Cutting-Edge RISC-V Implementations for FPGAs

BERKELEY, Calif. & SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today at the RISC-V Summit, the RISC-V Foundation, a non-profit corporation controlled by its members to drive the adoption and implementation ...
Design-Reuse

Microsemi is First FPGA Provider to Offer Open Architecture RISC-V IP Core and Comprehensive Software Solution for Embedded Designs

ALISO VIEJO, Calif., Nov. 16, 2016 – Microsemi Corporation (Nasdaq: MSCC), a leading provider of semiconductor solutions differentiated by power, security, reliability and performance, today announced ...
Liliputing

BeagleV-Fire is a $150 single-board PC with a RISC-V processor featuring FPGA fabric

The BeagleV-Fire is a new single-board computer from BeagleBoard, the company behind the BeagleBone and BeaglePlay line of boards, among others. What makes this $150 board stand out is that it’s ...
Design-Reuse

Efinix Topaz RISC-V SoC FPGA Family for High Volume and Mass Market Applications

Efinix has announced its Topaz family of RISC-V-based SoC FPGAs designed for high-volume and mass-market applications. The new family aims to provide a balance of performance and cost efficiency for a ...
heise online

RISC-V FPGA board is aimed at beginners

Microchip has released a RISC-V FPGA board. It is based on Microchip's 5-core, 667 MHz MPFS095T-1FCSG325E FPGA with 95K logic elements and 4 64-bit RISC-V cores, a 1 gigabyte main memory and a micro ...
Design News

Is Platypus from Zero ASIC the FPGA equivalent to RISC-V?

Before I tell you what I’m about to tell you, let’s first refresh our minds as to RISC-V processors. Why? Well, because even though what I’m about to tell you has nothing to do with RISC-V per se, in ...