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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.

Dhrystone Performance Tuning on the Freedom Platform

Dhrystone Performance Tuning on the Freedom Platform

Fu-Ching Yang | Principal Engineer
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...

Freedom in Software and in the Metal

Drew Barbier | Senior Director of Product Marketing
Jun 25, 2019
With the move to a quarterly release program, SiFive is innovating in the hardware space at an unprecedented pace. In the SiFive Core Designer update and the Core IP update we learned about new features being added to SiFive Core IP and the ability to quickly access those features via SiFive Core De...
Three New Core Series Now Available in SiFive Core Designer

Three New Core Series Now Available in SiFive Core Designer

Amy Lindburg | Director of Product Management
Jun 25, 2019
SiFive Core Designer (SCD) unlocks new possibilities by enabling engineers to explore the architectural design space of a CPU. With our Software-as-a Service (SaaS) application, customers can create and customize RISC-V core IP -- from their laptops. Working within a Core Series (a “class” of Core p...

When Hardware Roadmaps Look Like Software Roadmaps

Drew Barbier | Senior Director of Product Marketing
Jun 25, 2019
The traditional cadence for microarchitecture updates is usually tied to process technology nodes or ground-up redesigns. The SiFive Core IP portfolio offers scalable microarchitectures from efficient application multi-core processors capable of running Linux, to tiny, power-sipping cores suitable f...

The RISC-V Revolution is Sweeping Across the APAC Region and Australia

Swamy Irrinki | Senior Director of Marketing at SiFive
Jun 10, 2019
As we make our way around the world meeting and engaging with others in the semiconductor and hardware design community, we are seeing an increased interest in RISC-V based hardware innovation. This is due in large part to the emergence of market-ready RISC-V core IP, development tools and silicon ...
Freedom Studio Version 2019.03

Freedom Studio Version 2019.03

Drew Barbier | Senior Director of Product Marketing
Mar 29, 2019
Ever since we launched Freedom Studio in 2017, it has been a great way to quickly and easily get started writing code for SiFive platforms, whether those platforms are development boards such as the HiFive1 Rev B, Digilent Arty FPGA, or even our testbench, which ships along with SiFive IP deliverab...