EDN

Matsushita To Sample 32-bit RISC Processor

The microprocessor has a program memory footprint that Matsushita claims is 50 percent to 80 percent smaller than other architectures because of its AM33 instruction set. The processor has a ...
Phys.org

A 32-bit RISC-V processor made using molybdenum disulfide instead of silicon

A team of engineers at Fudan University has successfully designed, built and run a 32-bit RISC-V microprocessor that uses molybdenum disulfide instead of silicon as its semiconductor component. Their ...
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 ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Flexible IGZO RISC-V Microprocessor

A new technical paper titled “Bendable non-silicon RISC-V microprocessor” was published by researchers at Pragmatic Semiconductor, Qamcom, and Harvard University. From the abstract: “Here we present ...
Design-Reuse

How to Design a RISC-V Space Microprocessor

In the world of advanced technology and exploration, some missions take us where ordinary microprocessors cannot dare to go. Whether exploring the depths of space or operating in avionics, the ...
CNET

AMD's SSE5 ends the old RISC vs. CISC debate

Remember how I said that Moore's Law is "the full-employment act for computer pundits"? In the smaller niche of microprocessor journalism, there used to be another topic that was always good for a ...
Ars Technica

SiFive’s brand-new P550 is one of the world’s fastest RISC-V CPUs

For those not immediately familiar with RISC-V, it is a relatively new CPU architecture which takes advantage of Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC) principles. RISC-V is an open standard ...
Liliputing

Milk-V Meles is a $99 Raspberry Pi clone with a 2 GHz quad-core RISC-V processor

The Milk-V Meles is a single-board computer that could easily be mistaken for a Raspberry Pi Model B. It’s the same size and has a similar set of ports. But instead of an ARM-based processor, the ...
SiliconANGLE

Qualcomm, other chip giants launch RISC-V processor venture

A group of prominent chipmakers is forming a new venture to broaden the adoption of the RISC-V processor architecture. The venture, which was unveiled by its backers this morning, will initially focus ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Framework Based on an RISC-V Microprocessor Supporting LiM Operations

A new technical paper titled “RISC-Vlim, a RISC-V Framework for Logic-in-Memory Architectures” was published by researchers at Politecnico di Torino (Italy), Univerity of Tor Vergata (Italy), and ...
SpaceNews

SwRI Is Researching ARM, RISC-V Processors For Use As Faster Spaceflight Computers

Researchers point to a microprocessor on a space-ready motherboard used in spaceflight applications. SwRI is evaluating reduced instruction set computers (RISC-V or “risk five”) and Advanced RISC ...
Design-Reuse

Hardware / Software Partitioning Methodology for Systems on Chip (SoCs) with RISC Host and Configurable Microprocessors

This paper presents a new hardware/software partitioning methodology for SoCs. Target architecture is composed of a RISC host and one or more configurable microprocessors. First, a system is ...