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SiFive Essential
2-Series

2-Series

The SiFive Essential™2-Series are the smallest, most configurable 32-bit and 64-bit SiFive processors available, offering extremely efficient, optimized, low area and power solutions. 

The SiFive Essential 2-Series efficiently addresses traditional 8-bit and 32-bit microcontroller applications such as IoT, Analog Mixed Signal, Power Management Integrated Circuits (PMIC) and Programmable Finite State Machines (FSM), with an additional unique 64-bit product offering enabling 64-bit area optimized performance for general purpose embedded, industrial, IoT, and other real-time embedded markets.

  • Highly configurable feature set
  • Scalable performance
  • 32/64-bit embedded
  • 2-4 stage pipeline
  • Power & area optimized
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SiFive Essential 2-Series Features

  • 32-bit or 64-bit RISC-V core 
  • Up to 1.77 DMIPS/MHz 
  • 2-4 stage pipeline, with optional Harvard microarchitecture 
  • Up to 47-bit physical addressing 
  • Double, single and half precision floating point 
  • Bit manipulation extensions
  • Advanced security options including WorldGuard 
  • Efficient memory accesses 
    - Ability to add multiple outbound ports
    - Industry standard AMBA compliant bus protocols enable easy integration 
    - Optional tightly integrated memory (TIM) and optional micro-instruction cache 
  • 64-bit RISC-V compressed instructions (S2 only) 
  • Directly address >32-bit physical address space (S2 only) 
  • 64-bit arithmetic operations (S2 only) 

SiFive Essential Family

6-Series
Essential
  • Highly configurable feature set
  • Scalable performance
  • 32/64-bit embedded or 64-bit rich-OS
  • 8-stage pipeline
  • Single issue
7-Series
Essential
  • Highly configurable feature set
  • Scalable performance
  • 32/64-bit embedded or 64-bit rich-OS
  • 8-stage pipeline
  • Dual issue superscalar

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