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RISC-V

Open silicon for IoT and the edge: boards, MCUs, governance and where RISC-V lands first.

RISC-V and Software-Defined Vehicles

RISC-V and Software-Defined Vehicles

RISC-V SERIES The car that gets better after you buy it RISC-V and software-defined vehicles is where the automotive story stops being about chips […]

RISC-V Automotive

RISC-V in Automotive Systems

RISC-V SERIES The car is being rebuilt around the computer RISC-V automotive is a story of good timing. Just as carmakers tear up decades […]

RISC-V In Industrial IoT

RISC-V in Industrial IoT

RISC-V SERIES The factory does not care about hype RISC-V industrial IoT is where the architecture’s least glamorous virtues become its most valuable. A […]

RISC-V Security Explained

RISC-V Security Explained

RISC-V SERIES The one place where “open” is a security feature RISC-V security tends to trip people over one instinct: surely open hardware is […]

RISC-V and 5G Edge Computing

RISC-V and 5G Edge Computing

RISC-V SERIES Two trends heading for the same box RISC-V 5G edge computing is where two threads running through this whole series finally meet. […]

RISC-V For Robotics

RISC-V for Robotics

RISC-V SERIES A robot is two computers wearing one chassis RISC-V robotics is a story about a split. A robot has to react in […]

RISC-V Vector Extension

What Is the RISC-V Vector Extension?

RISC-V SERIES The instruction that does a hundred sums at once The RISC-V vector extension has turned up in nearly every recent post in […]

RISC-V and Tiny ML

RISC-V and TinyML

RISC-V SERIES Machine learning small enough to run on a coin cell RISC-V and TinyML is edge AI taken to its logical extreme. Forget […]

RISC-V and Edge AI

RISC-V and Edge AI

RISC-V SERIES The intelligence moves to where the data is RISC-V and edge AI is where the whole series thesis comes to a head. […]

What Is RVA23?

What Is RVA23?

RISC-V SERIES The boring standard that makes the whole thing work RVA23 is not the sort of thing that gets a keynote, but it […]

RISC-V For IoT Gateways

RISC-V for IoT Gateways

RISC-V SERIES The busiest box in the building A RISC-V IoT gateway is where the fleet comes together. It is the box that gathers […]

RISC-V and Zephyr RTOS

RISC-V and Zephyr RTOS

RISC-V SERIES An open core deserves an open operating system RISC-V and Zephyr is one of those pairings that looks obvious once you see […]

RISC-V vs ARM For Embedded IoT

RISC-V vs Arm for Embedded Systems

RISC-V SERIES Two instruction sets, one board decision you have to live with The RISC-V vs Arm embedded question is not really about which […]

RISC-V Microcontrollers Explained

RISC-V Microcontrollers Explained

RISC-V SERIES The chip doing the actual work in most connected things A RISC-V microcontroller is a small, cheap, self-contained computer on a single […]

Can RISC-V Replace ARM?

Can RISC-V Replace Arm?

RISC-V SERIES Replace is the wrong word for what is actually happening Can RISC-V replace Arm? For anyone building IoT hardware the honest answer […]

Why RISC-V Matters For IoT

Why RISC-V Matters for IoT Devices

RISC-V SERIES Why the open ISA fits IoT better than anything before it RISC-V matters for IoT devices because it strips the licence and […]

RISC-V vs ARM

RISC-V vs Arm: What’s the Difference?

RISC-V SERIES One you license, one you just use The RISC-V vs Arm question gets framed as a technology fight, and it mostly is […]

Is RISC-V Open Source?

Is RISC-V Really Open Source?

RISC-V SERIES Open ISA, closed chip: what “open” actually buys you Ask is RISC-V open source and you get a yes, a no and […]