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How Neuromorphic Chips are Revolutionizing the Edge

How Neuromorphic Chips are Revolutionizing the Edge

Neuromorphic Edge AI chips mark a fundamental departure from traditional silicon, utilizing brain-inspired, event-driven architectures to enable real-time inference within milliwatt-level power budgets.


How RISC-V Enables Shift-Left Practices for Securing Embedded Systems

How RISC-V Enables Shift-Left Practices for Securing Embedded Systems

RISC-V’s open architecture enables a shift-left approach to security in embedded systems. Learn how it smooths the way for integrating security features and more early in the development cycle.


The 150-Year-Old Principle at the Root of Secure Silicon and Software

The 150-Year-Old Principle at the Root of Secure Silicon and Software

Learn how open source silicon can provide better security than traditional measures like obscurity, but only if employed correctly, managed well, and backed with appropriate resources.


How RISC-V Security Stacks Strengthen Computer Architecture

How RISC-V Security Stacks Strengthen Computer Architecture

In this article, Ted Speers of Microchip reflects on how RISC-V and its security stack offer a solution for the development of computer architecture and processor security.


The Journey of RISC-V Implementation

The Journey of RISC-V Implementation

In this article, Western Digital's Ted Marena explores the reasons companies have and the process they go through when integrating the open process instruction set architecture RISC-V.


RISC-V’s Role in Securing IoT-Connected Devices

RISC-V’s Role in Securing IoT-Connected Devices

RISC-V hardware offers additional security for IoT-connected embedded devices beyond software cybersecurity.


Open Memory-Centric Architectures Enabled by RISC-V and OmniXtend

Open Memory-Centric Architectures Enabled by RISC-V and OmniXtend

This article discusses technologies for memory-centric computing and introduces OmniXtend, a cache coherence protocol.


Adding Custom Instructions to RISC-V to Boost Performance While Reducing Power and Code Density

Adding Custom Instructions to RISC-V to Boost Performance While Reducing Power and Code Density

The article discusses the benefits of a custom instruction for RISC-V and introduces the ACE framework.


An Introduction to SweRV, a RISC-V Core

An Introduction to SweRV, a RISC-V Core

This article introduces the RISC-V-based SweRV core, which builds on the classic five-stage RISC-V pipeline and allows up to two instructions per clock cycle.


Decreasing the Length of Design Cycle in Co-Designed SoCs with Renode

Decreasing the Length of Design Cycle in Co-Designed SoCs with Renode

In this article, we explain how the use of open-source functional simulators like Antmicro’s Renode can be an integral part of hardware-software co-design efforts.


Keeping RISC-V-Based Embedded System Design Flexible with Linux and Zephyr microPlatforms

Keeping RISC-V-Based Embedded System Design Flexible with Linux and Zephyr microPlatforms

This article discusses Foundries.io's microPlatforms which support Intel, Arm, and RISC-V architectures and are designed to avoid lock-in to specific hardware implementations.


Running Hard Real-Time Applications and Linux on PolarFire SoC

Running Hard Real-Time Applications and Linux on PolarFire SoC

This article discusses the RISC-V-based SoC FPGA architecture for PolarFire SoC, which allows hard real-time applications and Linux applications to coexist.


How Data-Centric Applications Can Capitalize on RISC-V Processor Innovation

How Data-Centric Applications Can Capitalize on RISC-V Processor Innovation

This article explores how RISC-V, combined with open-source collaboration and standards, is enabling innovation and purpose-built technologies among software engineers, system architects, CTOs, and board designers. It also touches on the possible impact that RISC-V and open source trends could have on the future of data-centric application experiences.


How to Utilize the RISC-V Instruction Set CKB-VM

How to Utilize the RISC-V Instruction Set CKB-VM

Part 3 of this series shows examples of the CKB-VM, a RISC-V instruction set based VM, in action in three different ways.


CKB-VM as a RISC-V Instruction Set: Inspiration, Design, and Benefits

CKB-VM as a RISC-V Instruction Set: Inspiration, Design, and Benefits

Learn about CKB-virtual machine (VM), which is a RISC-V instruction set that utilizes RISC-V's open-source instruction set architecture.


Introduction to the RISC-V Instruction Set CKB-VM and its Requirements

Introduction to the RISC-V Instruction Set CKB-VM and its Requirements

The Nervos CKB-Virtual Machine (CKB-VM) is a RISC-V instruction set based VM for executing smart contracts on Nervos CKB, written in Rust.


Building Out the RISC-V Ecosystem

Building Out the RISC-V Ecosystem

What is an ecosystem and what is not? How does the term ecosystem apply to RISC-V and it's open-source architecture? Markus Levy nad Robert Oshana weigh in on RISC-V as an ecosystem, where that ecosystem is today, and discusses new developments in RISC-V.


Securing Embedded Processors on RISC-V

Securing Embedded Processors on RISC-V

This article explores the equal importance of software and hardware security for IoT devices and provides actionable steps for securing embedded processors on RISC-V.


RISC-V: All Hype or Real Hope for the Processor Market?

RISC-V: All Hype or Real Hope for the Processor Market?

RISC-V is changing processor design through open source hardware. In this article, learn about some of the new uses for this technology.


Utilizing Open Source Hardware in Academic Environments

Utilizing Open Source Hardware in Academic Environments

In this article, the author explores and explains his team's process of choosing and utilizing the open-source hardware platform RISC-V in an academic environment.