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The SiFive blog is your go-to-source for updates on all things RISC-V including processor IP, chip architecture, software and other innovations. Whether you’re producing the next great consumer device, optimizing a datacenter or building next-generation autos check back often to hear the latest from our experts.

NVDLA Deep Learning Inference Compiler is Now Open Source

NVDLA Deep Learning Inference Compiler is Now Open Source

Sep 11, 2019
Designing new custom hardware accelerators for deep learning is clearly popular, but achieving state-of-the-art performance and efficiency with a new design is a complex and challenging problem. Two years ago, NVIDIA opened the source for the hardware design of the NVIDIA Deep Learning Accelerator (...
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SiFive Fosters RISC-V Collaboration and Education in India and Bangladesh Via Symposiums, Tutorials and Workshops

Swamy Irrinki | Senior Director of Marketing at SiFive
Jul 26, 2019
Last year we hosted several SiFive Tech Symposiums in India to help promulgate the RISC-V ecosystem in the region. The enthusiastic reception from those in industry as well as students and faculty at India's most esteemed universities was inspiring. This July and August, we're bringing the SiFive Te...
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Dhrystone Performance Tuning on the Freedom Platform

Dhrystone Performance Tuning on the Freedom Platform

Fu-Ching Yang | Principal Engineer
Jul 22, 2019
For consumers of low-end processors, the Dhrystone benchmark can be a valuable tool for estimating performance. Due to the nature of the Dhrystone benchmark, high-end Application Processor performance is incompletely represented by a Dhrystone score. For processor providers a Dhrystone score is a co...
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Freedom in Software and in the Metal

Drew Barbier | Senior Director of Product Marketing
Jun 25, 2019
With the move to a quarterly release program (see: Silicon At Speed Of Software), SiFive is innovating in the hardware space at an unprecedented pace. In the SiFive Core Designer update and the Core IP update we learned about new features being added to SiFive Core IP and the ability to quickly acce...
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Three New Core Series Now Available in SiFive Core Designer

Three New Core Series Now Available in SiFive Core Designer

Amy Lindburg | Director of Product Management
Jun 25, 2019
SiFive Core Designer (SCD) unlocks new possibilities by enabling engineers to explore the architectural design space of a CPU. With our Software-as-a Service (SaaS) application, customers can create and customize RISC-V core IP -- from their laptops. Working within a Core Series (a “class” of Core p...
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When Hardware Roadmaps Look Like Software Roadmaps

Drew Barbier | Senior Director of Product Marketing
Jun 25, 2019
The traditional cadence for microarchitecture updates is usually tied to process technology nodes or ground-up redesigns. The SiFive Core IP portfolio offers scalable microarchitectures from efficient application multi-core processors capable of running Linux, to tiny, power-sipping cores suitable f...
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