Hackaday

Open-V, The First Open Source RISC-V Microcontroller

Open Source software has been around for decades. Over these decades, Open Source software has been the driving force behind most of the Internet, and all of the top-500 supercomputers. The product of ...
EDN

MSP430FR5739 is a Mixed Signal Embedded Microcontroller with 16-Bit RISC Architecture

This post sponsored by Texas Instruments. The Texas Instruments MSP430FR573x family of ultra-low-power microcontrollers consists of multiple devices that feature embedded FRAM nonvolatile memory, ...
Hackaday

OpenISA Launches Free RISC-V VEGAboard

RISC architecture is gonna change everything, and I still can’t tell if we like that movie ironically or not. Nevertheless, RISC-V chips are coming onto the market, chipmakers seem really interested ...
Business Wire

Renesas Unveils the First Generation of Own 32-bit RISC-V CPU Core Ahead of Competition

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE:6723), a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, announced today that it has designed and tested a 32-bit CPU core based on ...
Forbes

The RISC-V Architecture Secures Smartwatches With Google And Qualcomm

Today, Google and Qualcomm announced an extension of their partnership to bring RISC-V-based systems-on-chips (SoCs) to market with support for Wear OS, a version of Android for smartwatches and ...
Houston Chronicle

(BW) Freescale Opens Licensing of ColdFire(R) Microcontroller Architecture to Embedded Customers

Broadening customer access to one of the industry’s most popular 32-bit microcontroller (MCU) architectures, Freescale Semiconductor (NYSE:FSL) (NYSE:FSL.B) has initiated a ColdFire® licensing ...
eeNews Europe

Call for Presentations for Elektor online conference on RISC‑V

Elektor is seeking submissions for its online conference on RISC-V on April 15, 2026. The Call for Presentaions is open until January 16.
SDxCentral

Can RISC-V thrive in the data center?

YouTuber bitluni likes building strange things. Head over to his channel and you can watch footage of him constructing a multi-colored LED wall made of ping pong balls and a DIY sonar scanner.
EDN

RISC CPU U8 Core Microcontroller

This LSI is a high performance CMOS 8-bit microcontroller equipped with an 8-bit CPU nX-U8/100 and integrated with peripheral functions such as the UART, RC oscillation type A/D converter, and LCD ...
Electronic Design

A Hands-On Look at GigaDevice’s RISC-V with IAR’s MISRA C

The GD32VF103 is based on the Bumblebee core. This is the same core used by Andes Technology’s AndeStar V5 chip. The Bumblebee core supports the RV32IMAC instruction set. This means that it’s a 32-bit ...
Design-Reuse

Infineon, Synopsys to show virtual prototype of first automotive RISC-V microcontroller

Infineon Technologies is to show a virtual prototype of a microcontroller based on the RISC-V open instruction set architecture for automotive applications next week. This will sit in the Aurix family ...
Electronic Design

First Open-Source RISC-V Chip Arrives

1. SiFive's Freedom E310 32-bit microcontroller is the first commercially available RISC-V chip. A RISC-V chip is now available in the form of SiFive's Freedom E310 (Fig. 1). The Freedom E310 is a ...