EDN

SoC FPGA for RISC-V enters mass production

Microchip announced production qualification of its PolarFire MPFS250T SoC FPGA supporting the royalty-free RISC-V open standard ISA. Volume production of the MPFS250T, which provides 254,000 logic ...
EDN

First SoC FPGA development kit based on RISC-V

Microchip Technology Inc. has claimed the industry’s first RISC-V-based System-on-Chip (SoC) FPGA development kit for the PolarFire SoC FPGA. Delivering a standardized, low-cost development platform ...
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 ...
Embedded

Microchip launches $500 RISC-V based FPGA development kit

Microchip Technology has launched what it says is the industry’s first RISC-V based system-on-chip (SoC) field programmable gate array (FPGA) development kit, available for under $500. The rising ...
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 ...
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 ...
insideHPC

Achronix FPGAs Add Support for Bluespec’s RISC-V Chips

March 26, 2024, SANTA CLARA, Calif. & FRAMINGHAM, Mass.– FPGA technology company Achronix Semiconductor Corporation and Bluespec, Inc., a RISC-V tools and silicon IP company, today announced a family ...
Hackaday

Gigantic FPGA In A Game Boy Form Factor, 2019 Supercon Badge Is A Hardware Siren Song

Look upon this conference badge and kiss your free time goodbye. The 2019 Hackaday Superconference badge is an ECP5 FPGA running a RISC-V core in a Game Boy form factor complete with cartridge slot ...
Nasdaq

The Industry’s First SoC FPGA Development Kit Based on the RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture is Now Available

Microchip’s PolarFire® SoC FPGA Icicle Kit enables the broad RISC-V-based Mi-V ecosystem for the industry’s lowest-power FPGA CHANDLER, Ariz., Sept. 16, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The rising adoption of ...
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 ...
Semiconductor Engineering

FPGA-Proven RISC-V System With Hardware Accelerated Task Scheduling

A technical paper titled “Enabling HW-based Task Scheduling in Large Multicore Architectures” was published by researchers at Barcelona Supercomputing Center, University of Campinas, University of Sao ...
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 ...