Semiconductor Engineering

Increasing Design Flexibility With RISC-V-Based Processor IP

The semiconductor industry increasingly needs more flexible and scalable processor architectures, driving the growing adoption of RISC-V. Originally developed at the University of California, Berkeley ...
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 ...
EDN

The next RISC-V processor frontier: AI

The RISC-V Summit North America, held on 22-23 October 2025 in Santa Clara, California, showcased the latest CPU cores featuring new vector processors, high-speed interfaces, and peripheral subsystems ...
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 ...
EE World Online

What are the benefits of RISC-V in AI, ML, and embedded systems?

The open-source nature of RISC-V brings the benefits of a modular and royalty-free instruction set architecture (ISA) that eliminates licensing fees, can accelerate development, and fosters ...
Business Wire

Renesas Unveils the First Generation of Own 32-bit RISC-V CPU Core Ahead of Competition

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE:6723), a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, announced today that it has designed and tested a 32-bit CPU core based on ...
Business Wire

SiFive To Introduce New RISC-V Processor Architecture and RISC-V PC at Linley Fall Virtual Processor Conference

SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SiFive, Inc., the leading provider of commercial RISC-V processor IP and silicon solutions, today announced that Dr. Yunsup Lee, CTO of SiFive, and Dr. Krste ...
EDN

AI is stress-testing processor architectures and RISC-V fits the moment

RISC-V’s expanding role in AI is not a rejection of incumbent architectures, which continue to deliver performance and ...
ZDNet

RISC-V opens up processor design

Today, if you want to build a high-performance computing device, you can almost certainly find all the software you need in a free and open form. The same is not true for the processor chips that run ...
Geeky Gadgets

Synopsys unveils innovative RISC-V ARC-V processor IP for next-gen chip design

If you’re closely following the semiconductor space, you will be pleased to know that Synopsys, Inc. has made a significant announcement this week. With the introduction of the new RISC-V ARC-V ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Customizing An Existing RISC-V Processor

In a previous post, we considered how you could create an optimized ISA for a domain-specific processor core by profiling software and experimenting with adding/removing instructions. Using the open ...