Semiconductor Engineering

Manage Your Risk In RISC-V

Adoption of RISC-V processors is accelerating. This technology, like everything, comes with benefits and risks. The open standard means freedom for many developers, but success depends on the ...
Blockonomi

Linea Ends Direct EVM Arithmetization, Moves to RISC-V to Match Ethereum’s Proving Roadmap

Linea, the Ethereum Layer 2 network developed by ConsenSys, is transitioning from direct EVM arithmetization to a RISC-V-based proving architecture. The team spent three years building one of the most ...
Design-Reuse

Debugging complex RISC-V processors

RISC-V processors are quickly becoming mainstream. The open standard means freedom for many developers, but success depends on the development of a support ecosystem around RISC-V. Industry ...
Design-Reuse

A formal-based approach for efficient RISC-V processor verification

The openness of RISC-V allows customizing and extending the architecture and microarchitecture of a RISC-V based core to meet specific requirements. This appetite for more design freedom is also ...
Electronic Design

RISC-V: The Instruction-Set Alternative

First and foremost, RISC-V is a modular, open-source, instruction set definition and nothing more. RISC-V as an ecosystem is much more. The instruction set provides the encoding and semantics, but it ...