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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
TweakTown

Ubitium announces 'universal processor': combines CPU, GPU, DSP, FPGA in a single RISC-V chip

TL;DR: Ubitium is developing a Universal Processor that combines CPU, GPU, DSP, and FPGA into a single chip, aiming to revolutionize the market by reusing every transistor for multiple functions.
Geeky Gadgets

New BeagleV-Fire FPGA and RISC-V Single Board Computer

BeagleBoard, a prominent player in the field of single-board computers (SBCs), has recently unveiled its latest product, the BeagleV-Fire. This advanced SBC is powered by Microchip’s PolarFire ...
Nasdaq

Microchip’s Low-Cost PolarFire® SoC Discovery Kit Makes RISC-V® and FPGA Design More Accessible for a Wider Range of Embedded Engineers

CHANDLER, Ariz., Feb. 15, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The embedded industry is seeing an increased demand for open-source RISC-V®-based processor architectures, but there are still limited options when ...
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 ...
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 ...
Geeky Gadgets

Fomu ICE40 FPGA development board

Adafruit has announced the arrival of a new open source programmable FPGA development board in the form of the Fomu ICE40. Offering 28 kilobytes of RAM and a large amount of storage, the small develop ...