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The RISC-V Foundation is a non-profit corporation that works to encourage the adoption of RISC-V architecture for chip design. For those who don’t know, contrary to other CPU Instruction Set Architectures (ISA), RISC-V is free and open source. To further promote its adoption, the RISC-V Foundation has joined hands with The Linux Foundation. This partnership […]
RISC-V Workshop in Chennai, India, hosted by The Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras), achieved a significant milestone by booting Linux on its first ever RISC-V based silicon chip processor named Shakti (Project Page). The team (which is partly funded by MeiTY, GOI as part of the India Microprocessor development project ) aims to create a critical […]
Last year, Silicon Valley Startup SiFive released the first open source SoC (system on a chip), which was named Freeform Everywhere 310. Now, going one step ahead from the embedded systems, the company has released U54-MC Coreplex IP, which is the world’s first RISC-V based 64-bit quad-core CPU that supports fully featured operating systems like […]