RISC-V

A Look At Celerity’s Second-Gen 496-Core RISC-V Mesh NoC

Architectures Circuit Design Manycore Processors Network-on-Chip Neural Processors VLSI 2019 January 12, 2020 0

A look at the 496-core RISC-V manycore array, network-on-chip, and the digital PLL of the Celerity open-source RISC-V tiered accelerator.

Analog AI Startup Mythic To Compute And Scale In Flash

Architectures Neural Processors October 6, 2019 0

A look at the IPU architecture of analog AI startup Mythic which attempts to significantly reduce the power consumption by computing directly in analog in flash.

DARPA ERI: How Ayar Labs Collaboration With GF Produces A Photonics Chiplet That Can Supercharge Intel FPGAs

Architectures Circuit Design ERI Summit 2019 FPGAs July 20, 2019 0

From a DARPA vision and a $15 million seed to a commercialized CMOS silicon photonics product: how Ayar Labs collaboration with GF produces a photonics chiplet that can supercharge Intel FPGAs.

Nvidia Inference Research Chip Scales to Dozens of Chiplets

Architectures Interconnects Neural Processors VLSI 2019 June 30, 2019 0

Nvidia recently presented a research chip comprising dozens of chiplets that enables them to scale from milliwatts to hundreds of watts in order to cater to different markets such as edge, mobile, automotive, and data center.

SiFive Launches 7 Series, Their Highest Performance RISC-V Cores

Architectures Embedded Processors Mobile Processors November 8, 2018 0

SiFive launches 7 Series, their highest-performance RISC-V cores.

ISSCC 2018: MIT’s low-power hardware crypto RISC-V IoT processor

Architectures Circuit Design Embedded Processors ISSCC 2018 March 17, 2018 1

In recent years, IoT devices have been plagued with security issues. Memory and energy constraints of those low-power devices mean there is very little headroom for complex security implementations. At ISSCC 2018, a team of MIT researchers has attempted to address this problem with their low-power fully in-hardware crypto engine IoT RISC-V processor.

The RISC-V momentum continues with the GAP8, a new IoT/AI Application Processor

Embedded Processors Neural Processors February 28, 2018 0

The RISC-V momentum continues with the the launch of the GAP8, an IoT/AI ultra-low power application processor by GreenWaves, a France-based startup. The chip is designed for lengthy autonomous battery-powered edge/IoT inference operations.

Esperanto exits stealth mode, aims at AI with a 4,096-core 7nm RISC-V monster

Manycore Processors Neural Processors January 1, 2018 2

Exiting stealth mode, Esperanto, a small start-up lead by Dave Ditzel has unveiled their high-performance RISC-V cores they have been working on. Their first product will be a 4,096-core manycore processor designed for accelerating AI workloads.