Freedom Everywhere

HiFive1 (Discontinued)

SiFive HiFive1 is an Arduino-compatible development board featuring the SiFive Freedom E310 (FE310) SoC, making it the best way to prototype and develop RISC-V software. Designed for microcontrollers and edge computing, the FE310 instantiates a SiFive Essential™ E3 Series CPU Core Complex, a high performance 32-bit RV32IMAC core. Additional features include a 16KB L1 Instruction Cache, a 16KB Data SRAM scratchpad, hardware multiply/divide, a debug module, flexible clock generation with on-chip oscillators and PLLs, and a wide variety of peripherals including UARTs, QSPI, PWMs, and timers. Multiple power domains and a low-power standby mode ensure a wide variety of applications can benefit from the FE310. Software development is accelerated with the onboard FTDI FT2232 JTAG debugger connecting over USB to SiFive Freedom Studio, an Eclipse-based IDE. Additionally, your JTAG probe of choice can be connected and used with your favorite debugger and IDE. Freedom Studio is packaged with a prebuilt toolchain and example software projects. Alternatively, the SiFive Freedom Tools download package includes a pre-built toolchain, debugger, and additional command line tools that can be plugged into your own bespoke development environment.

HiFive1 Features
and Specifications

Microcontroller
Operating Voltage

3.3 V and 1.8 V

Input Voltage

5 V USB or 7-12 VDC Jack

IO Voltages

Both 3.3 V or 5 V supported

Digital I/O Pins

19

PWM Pins

9

SPI Controllers/HW CS Pins

1/3

External Interrupt Pins

19

External Wakeup Pins

1

Flash Memory

128 Mbit Off-Chip (ISSI SPI Flash)

Host Interface (microUSB)

Program, Debug, and Serial Communication

Weight

22 g

SoC

Freedom E310

FE310-G000

Dimensions

68 mm

Long

51 mm

Wide

Using HiFive1 (original)

Resources

SchematicsAltium filesBOM

New Version of HiFive1 Available

  • Hardware I2C to read from digital sensors
  • Additional UART to communicate with other peripherals
  • Low-power sleep mode, keeping only the minimal amount of logic in the Always-On domain powered
  • On board wireless networking
Check Out HiFive1 Rev B

What People
are Saying

For those following the RISC‑V space, SiFive’s new Freedom E310 is a long-awaited milestone.

William Wong — Technical Editor, Penton Media

Sutter Hill Ventures

SiFive is providing innovative solutions that will fundamentally change the semiconductor industry.

Stefan Dyckerhoff — Sutter Hill Ventures, Managing Director