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Bluespec Teams Up with Synopsys for RISC-V Core Verification Effort

With their collaboration, the firms hope to enable faster and improved functional verification testing for Bluespec’s RISC-V cores.

2 days ago by Jake Hertz

Andes Unveils Details of its Entry Level D23 RISC-V Processor Core

With the new processor, the company hopes to bring a feature-rich set of functions to the RISC-V community.

January 12, 2023 by Jake Hertz

Server-class RISC-V Core Unveiled by Ventana at RISC-V Summit

In a bid to bring RISC-V to the high-performance, data center computing space, Ventana announced their Veyron family, a series of processors positioned to offer the flexibility needed to drive innovation.

December 19, 2022 by Aaron Carman

“RISC-V is Inevitable”—A Tale of Two RISC-V Summit Keynotes

At the annual summit, leaders in the RISC-V community had much to say about RISC-V taking over the world.

December 16, 2022 by Jeff Child

Solutions Disclosed at RISC-V Summit: Security, Verification, and More

At this year’s RISC-V Summit, stakeholders rolled out solutions revolving around verification, security, and software-defined SoCs.

December 15, 2022 by Jake Hertz

With its New RISC-V Processors, SiFive Bets on Compute Density

Aiming to usurp Arm processors in size-constrained, compute hungry designs like wearables, SiFive has expanded its RISC-V “Performance” line of processors.

November 01, 2022 by Jeff Child

SiFive Seeks to Fuel Next-Gen Designs with Automotive RISC-V Cores

With its new portfolio of automotive RISC-V processor cores, SiFive aims to solve challenges in the design of evolving digital cars.

September 15, 2022 by Jake Hertz

NASA Taps SiFive’s RISC-V Core for its Spaceflight Processor

NASA has selected SiFive’s X280 RISC-V device as the CPU core for its upcoming High-Performance Spaceflight Computer (HPSC) project.

September 09, 2022 by Jake Hertz

RISC-V Universe Grows with New GPUs, CPUs, and Development Kits

More companies continue to leverage RISC-V, a free open source instruction set architecture, to push innovation in GPUs and real-time CPU devices.

August 27, 2022 by Abdulwaliy Oyekunle

Amid Chip Shortages, Companies Bet on RISC-V

The RISC-V architecture continues to gather momentum as organizations make efforts to leverage the open-source ISA technology and innovate with new RISC-V solutions.

August 24, 2022 by Lianne Frith

RISC-V Shines at Embedded World With New Specs and Processors

At Embedded World 2022 today, RISC-V activity heats up as RISC-V International reveals four new spec approvals and SiFive unveils a new version of its X280 processor.

June 21, 2022 by Jeff Child

Automotive IC Solutions Roll for Enhanced Security and ADAS

Next-gen automotive system design keeps getting more challenging. To help engineers keep pace, three chip vendors are serving up solutions aimed at enhanced security, ADAS, and simplified door control.

April 30, 2022 by Antonio Anzaldua Jr.

Highlights of Intel’s 2021 Architecture Day—a Computing-centric Event

At Intel's 2021 Architecture Day, CEO Pat Gelsinger called the company's new computing technology "magic." Here are a few highlights from the event.

August 24, 2021 by Jake Hertz

Marvell’s OCTEON 10: The First DPU To Use Neoverse N2 ARMv9 Architecture

Marvell’s newest 5 nm data processing unit (DPU), the OCTEON 10, offers 3x improvement over the previous generation along with the newest ARMv9 Core.

July 07, 2021 by Adrian Gibbons

A RISC-V Future? SiFive and Andes Aim to Shake Up the Processor Industry

RISC-V, the open-source instruction set architecture, is making inroads against industry giants, with the support of the RISC-V Foundation.

June 25, 2021 by Adrian Gibbons

ARMv9: the Long-awaited High-Performance Computing Architecture

ARM Vision 2021 defines the company's roadmap for the next ten years of specialized computing with the ARMv9-A.

April 01, 2021 by Adrian Gibbons

John von Neumann: From the Manhattan Project to the Princeton Architecture

John von Neumann has revolutionized the world of computing through his work on the Manhattan Project, the von Neumann (Princeton) Architecture, and the first IAS computer.

February 27, 2021 by Kimber Wymore

A New Multimodal Architecture Said to Redefine the Way Transistors Work

Researchers at the University of Surrey have come up with a new type of transistor that offers linear behavior and huge upside.

November 02, 2020 by Jake Hertz

Ultrasound Receiver Architecture Undergoes a Seismic Shift

Ultrasound, with nearly a century of technological history, has seen its third major technological breakthrough coming out of North Carolina State.

August 20, 2020 by Adrian Gibbons

Architecture and Design Techniques of Op-Amps

In this video we will examine the internal circuitry of an operational amplifier. A thorough analysis of any professional-quality op-amp would be far too complicated for an introductory video tutorial, but if we focus on the overall architecture and a few specific design techniques, we can learn quite a bit about op-amp functionality without getting lost in the details.

August 02, 2020 by Robert Keim