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The latest insights, and deeper technology dives, from RISC-V leaders

The SiFive blog is your go-to-source for updates on all things RISC-V including processor IP, chip architecture, software and other innovations. Whether you’re producing the next great consumer device, optimizing a datacenter or building next-generation autos check back often to hear the latest from our experts.

Supporting A World Leading RISC-V IP Portfolio

Sep 17, 2019

The second SiFive quarterly engineering release has arrived, and includes some great new Trace & Debug features. Static source code analysis may not offer a complete view of real world operation. Real time analysis enabled via tracing permits a deeper insight into the interactions of software an...

Israel is Evolving as a High-Tech Hub, and RISC-V is Playing a Vital Role

Sep 13, 2019

Israel, and specifically the city of Tel Aviv, is said to have one of the highest densities of startups per capita in the world. At our SiFive Tech Symposium, we heard from some of the brightest minds residing at the epicenter of this high-tech hub. They shared their visions for the industry as wel...

NVDLA Deep Learning Inference Compiler is Now Open Source

Sep 11, 2019

Designing new custom hardware accelerators for deep learning is clearly popular, but achieving state-of-the-art performance and efficiency with a new design is a complex and challenging problem. Two years ago, NVIDIA opened the source for the hardware design of the NVIDIA Deep Learning Accelerator (...

Collaboration, Inspiration and Progressive RISC-V Based Innovation in India and Bangladesh is Increasing at a Steady Pace

Sep 05, 2019

Our SiFive Tech Symposiums and Workshops in India and Bangladesh were a huge success, and an inspirational endeavor as well. We hosted events in six cities total, including symposiums in Noida/Delhi, Pune, Bangalore and Hyderabad, and workshops in Chennai and Bangladesh’s capital city of Dhaka. Att...

SiFive Fosters RISC-V Collaboration and Education in India and Bangladesh Via Symposiums, Tutorials and Workshops

Jul 26, 2019

Last year we hosted several SiFive Tech Symposiums in India to help promulgate the RISC-V ecosystem in the region. The enthusiastic reception from those in industry as well as students and faculty at India's most esteemed universities was inspiring. This July and August, we're bringing the SiFive Te...

Dhrystone Performance Tuning on the Freedom Platform

Jul 22, 2019

For consumers of low-end processors, the Dhrystone benchmark can be a valuable tool for estimating performance. Due to the nature of the Dhrystone benchmark, high-end Application Processor performance is incompletely represented by a Dhrystone score. For processor providers a Dhrystone score is a co...

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