Ars Technica

Underlying native RISC instructions of NG/AMD NX586/K5/K6/K7 are PPC compatible?!? H'mm

I was just reading this thread at Slasdot when I came apon these 2 posts below:<BR><BR><BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR> Except ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Implementing Cryptographic Algorithms for the RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture in Two Cases

This new technical paper titled “Symmetric Cryptography on RISC-V: Performance Evaluation of Standardized Algorithms” was published by researchers at Intel, North Arizona University and Google, with ...
Elektronik Net

Instruction Set Architecture RISC-V

Open source software is popular – for operating systems as well as for office programs. But can this idea also work with hardware? We interviewed Rick O'Connor, Executive Director of the RISC-V ...
AppleInsider

Apple investigating RISC-V instruction set architecture, job listing shows

A job listing posted to Apple's website this week reveals the company is researching RISC-V instruction set architecture solutions, suggesting future in-house chip designs might implement the ...
Business Wire

Imperas and Metrics Collaborate to Jump Start RISC-V Core Design Verification Using Open Source Instruction Stream Generator

ZURICH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Imperas Software Ltd., the leader in virtual platforms and high-performance software simulation, today announced the collaboration with Metrics, working on the verification ...
Electronics Weekly

riscvOVPsim gets Risc-V vector instructions

Imperas has extended its Risc-V reference model and simulator to cover forthcoming vector instructions and to support coverage-driven verification analysis. Called riscvOVPsim, the enhanced version ...
Semiconductor Engineering

RISC-V Custom Instruction Flow Application Note

How to validate an application on a RISC-V processor with custom instructions, analyze the application execution, and optimize the custom instruction implementation and its documentation. A RISC-V ...
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 ...
Electronics Weekly

riscvOVPsim gets Risc-V vector instructions

Imperas has extended its Risc-V reference model and simulator to cover forthcoming vector instructions and to support coverage-driven verification analysis. Called riscvOVPsim, the enhanced version ...