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 ...

Bolt wants to take on Nvidia by building a RISC-V graphics processor

Bolt Graphics is pressing ahead with its plan to challenge Nvidia and AMD by building a graphics processor around a RISC-V ...
New Electronics

CAST looks to simplify RISC-V IP adoption with new program

This program is a new way for embedded system developers to adopt RISC-V processors faster and with less risk. Catalyst combines CAST’s 32-bit RISC-V processor IP cores with simplified configurations, ...
Design-Reuse

CAST Simplifies RISC-V Embedded Processor IP Adoption with New Catalyst Program

Targeted, preconfigured RISC-V IP cores plus low-risk, easy-start, deferred-payment IP licensing make embedded RISC-V design easier than ever Santa Clara, California, RISC-V Summit — October 22, 2025 ...
Nasdaq

Microchip Unveils Family Details and Opens Early Access Program for RISC-V Enabled Low-Power PolarFire SoC FPGA Family

BANGKOK, Dec. 12, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- RISC-V Summit -- The trend towards compute intensive gateways and edge devices is driving the integration of traditional deterministic control applications with ...
ZDNet

Rediscovering RISC-V: Apple M1 sparks renewed interest in non-x86 architectures

RISC-V is, like x86 and ARM, an instruction set architecture (ISA). Unlike x86 and ARM, it is a free and open standard that anyone can use without getting locked into someone else's processor designs ...
Semiconductor Engineering

RISC-V Wants All Your Cores

RISC-V is no longer content to disrupt the CPU industry. It is waging war against every type of processor integrated into an SoC or advanced package, an ambitious plan that will face stiff competition ...
Hackaday

Custom RISC-V Processor Built In VHDL

While ARM continues to make inroads into the personal computing market against traditional chip makers like Intel and AMD, it’s not a perfect architecture and does have some disadvantages. While it’s ...
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 ...
ZDNet

RISC-V opens up processor design

Today, if you want to build a high-performance computing device, you can almost certainly find all the software you need in a free and open form. The same is not true for the processor chips that run ...