Pronounced risk five, RISC-V is enabling a new, collaborative era of processor innovation. The development of the RISC-V standard began in 2010 when researchers at the University of California, Berkeley created a simple, yet powerful ISA that could be used by anyone with minimal restrictions. I...
A core is one instance of an execution unit within a multicore processor. Each core has its own private cache, which allows it to carry out tasks independently without having to access main memory as often; however multiple cores can share resources such as an L2 cache. Multiple cores allow...
RISC-V is an emerging platform of choice for many embedded projects, particularly those wishing to take advantage of an open-source CPU ISA. Some semiconductor companies design CPUs and build them in-house, at their own foundries. During the aviation age, in the heyday of early computing, ...
RISC-V customization and Custom Compute What is the difference between processor customization and processor configuration? Processor configuration involves adjusting pre-defined parameters or settings available on a processor to tweak its behavior or performance in general, while processor customization involve...
Decode stage:The CPU’s instruction decoder analyzes the instruction it just fetched, breaking it down into signals that control different parts of the processor. It identifies what type of operation is needed and what resources are required. ...
However, a smartphone does differ from a classical computer, wherein the processing unit is not separate from the rest of the hardware. This is because of ARM architecture, a family of reduced instruction set computer (RISC) architecture that forms the brain of mobile computing. ...
The first series of Codasip video blog aims to cover embedded processor fundamentals from a practical perspective, explaining the basic features and offering valuable hints on how to get the optimal result for production. The series is focused on open standards, namely on RISC-V, the most popular...
RISC-V is already on a clear path to gain significant market share in the embedded space, in processors used for auxiliary functions outside a device’s main application processor. These are deeply-embedded applications – the end user doesn’t know RISC-V is in the chip, yet it’s there...
RiscPC was a computer produced by Acorn Computers. Risc is short for “reduced instruction set computer.” It was released in April of 2004 and codenamed Medusa. The RiscPC superseded the Acorn Archimedes. The RiscPC enabled a second processor and had full 24-bit color graphics support. Adve...
Both RISC and RISC-V are Reduced Instruction Set Computer which is found in devices with smaller SoCs like smartphones, but the same has also been expanded to computers (M1 Macs, Qualcomm’s X Elite Platform). CISC stands for Complex Instruction Set Computer and is used by processor manufactu...