Forum Highlight
The SiFive Forums are buzzing this month! It’s packed with valuable content that can answer your questions and curiosity surrounding RISC-V, development boards, IP evaluations and much more. Here’s a peek at some of the threads that caught our attention (and will now have yours, too!):
Featured Project Of the Month
Our view of the world centers around the developer, the engineer, the user, the dreamer. It’s you who are contributing to RISC-V and open-source, which makes what we do at SiFive possible.
This month’s featured project comes from Antmicro, which contributed the design of a RISC-V electronic badge for the 7th RISC-V Workshop. Speakers and journalists were sporting these limited edition badges developed in collaboration with SiFive and co-sponsored by the Foundation. Programmable from their smartphones, badge-wearers (can we call them badgers??) were able to display their name and whatever message of their choice from the e-ink screen. Best of all, the badge is completely open sourced and all the design files and software are available. It’s consisted of a carrier card with a reusable, socket-based small RISC-V SoC module that can be removed and used for prototyping other interesting RISC-V projects.
We’d love to feature your SiFive project in the next newsletter - let us know what you are working on!
More Blog Posts
What’s been on our minds, you ask? Quite a few things, but here are some of our top blogs over the past month:
Awards Season Brings Big Surprises by Jack Kang
Analog Bits Clocks into the DesignShare Ecosystem by Jack Kang
The DesignShare Ecosystem Expands Its Catalog of IP to include eMemory’s Logic NVM by Jack Kang
All Aboard, Part 7: Entering and Exiting the Linux Kernel on RISC-V by Palmer Dabbelt
A Core By Any Other Name… by Jack Kang
SiFive in the Press
Want to see who has been talking about SiFive recently? Let’s take a look!
SiFive Building RISC-V Ecosystem, One Partnership at a Time by Majeed Ahmad, AllAboutCircuits.com
SiFive Adds Flex Logix eFPGA IPs to DesignShare Initiative by Chantelle Dubois, AllAboutCircuits.com
DesignShare is all About Enabling Design Wins! by Daniel Nenni, SemiWiki
FlexLogix joins SiFive’s DesignShare program by Charlie Demerjian, SemiAccurate
Flex Logix makes eFPGA available for SiFive design environment by David Manners, ElectronicsWeekly.com
The Week In Review: Design by Jesse Allen, SemiEngineering
RISC-V in the News
We’re always keeping an eye on RISC-V; after all, our founders invented it! Speaking of, did you hear the RISC-V ecosystem surpassed 100 members globally? We’re excited to see the growth! Check out the news here, and more of the latest conversations around the RISC-V ISA:
UltraSoC selected by Microsemi for growing RISC-V product rangen Source Software Based Big Data Analytics Technology to Increase Speed by Up to 100 Times by Staff, EE Journal
Andes partners with EDA tool vendors for more RISC-V SoC support, by Julien Happich, EE News Europe
Microsemi Opens RISC-V Ecosystem with Industry Leaders by Staff, Photonics.com
Thanks so much for all of your continued support!
Till next time,
Jack Kang
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