Hackaday

RISC-V Microcontroller Lights Up Synth With LED Level Meter

The LM3914 LED bar graph driver was an amazing chip back in the day. Along with the LM3915, its logarithmic cousin, these chips gave a modern look to projects, allowing dancing LEDs to stand in for a ...
Geeky Gadgets

$8 MilkV Duo dual RISC-V microcontroller lets you run Arduino and Linux in parallel

The MilkV Duo is revolutionizing the microcontroller landscape by integrating dual RISC-V processors, with one core running Arduino or RTOS and the other operating Linux. Priced at approximately $10, ...
EDN

Oki uses ARM RISC core in new 32-bit microcontroller series

SAN FRANCISCO — Oki Semiconductor today rolled out a new general-purpose 32-bit microcontroller–based on a RISC processor core from ARM Ltd.–which is aimed at lowering the cost of embedded system ...
Semiconductor Engineering

EPFL’s Open Source Single-Core RISC-V Microcontroller for Edge Computing

A new technical paper titled “X-HEEP: An Open-Source, Configurable and Extendible RISC-V Microcontroller” was published by researchers at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). Abstract: “In ...
Liliputing

Dabao is a $10 dev board with an open source Baochip-1x RISC-V microcontroller (crowdfunding)

The Dabao Evaluation board is a tiny new single-board computer with a USB 2.0 Type-C port, a 20-pin GPIO header, and a custom RISC-V chip called the Baochip-1x. It’s that last bit that makes this ...
Hackaday

Hands On With The First Open Source Microcontroller

2016 was a great year for Open Hardware. The Open Source Hardware Association released their certification program, and late in the year, a few silicon wizards met in Mountain View to show off the ...
Design-Reuse

RISC-V 32-bit General-Purpose IoT Microcontroller IP, Comparable To M33

TGE200- A low-power, high-performance IoT microcontroller that integrates L1 cache, B and F extensions, Zicbom cache operations, and Smepmp security t ...
TechSpot

Trikarenos is a RISC-V chip for miniaturized space missions

Forward-looking: Very few electronic devices used here on Earth can survive when they leave the planet's comfortable atmosphere. Processors, in particular, must be designed to withstand the harsh ...
Liliputing

Raspberry Pi Pico 2 is a $5 board powered by the new RP2350 microcontroller (with RISC-V and ARM Cortex-M33 cores)

Three and a half years after launching the Raspberry Pi Pico and RP2040 microcontroller, Raspberry Pi has introduced new versions of each that bring a number of upgrades. While Raspberry Pi is best ...
EDN

Partnership delivers first silicon for open-source RISC-V microcontroller

The RISC-V initiative continues to make gains in delivering new commercial and open-source chips and cores. The latest comes from a partnership between X-FAB Silicon Foundries and Efabless Corp., a ...
Electronic Design

Major Player Enters RISC-V Arena

Why Synopsys’ entry into the RISC-V field is significant. What RISC-V families are supported by Synopsys. Synopsys just released its ARC-V family of RISC-V-based processors (see figure). Those ...