HiFive Premier P550
Early Access Edition
Be one of the first 100 to get your hands on the highest performance RISC-V CPU development board in the World and start building the future of computing on RISC-V, today.
Notes: The early access boards will not come with onboard GPU support or Ubuntu, but are fully updatable to support these features before year end.
The Ubuntu Pre-installed edition will also be available for purchase before year end.
FEATURES
Early Access Edition
- The World’s Highest Performance RISC-V Dev Board
- Quad-Core SiFive P550 Performance CPU
- 16GB LPDDR5 / 128GB eMMC
- Robust PC Connectivity
- Ships with FESDK Yocto Linux
- Requires AMD PCIe Discrete GPU for Display Out
- Fully UPGRADABLE to Ubuntu 24.04 with Integrated GPU support before year end (requires microSD card or USB flash drive).
FEATURES & SPECIFICATIONS
HiFive Premier P550
Development Board
Powered by the ESWIN EIC7700X SoC with a SiFive Quad-Core P550 64-bit Out-of-Order CPU cluster, this board offers exceptional performance and flexibility, enabling developers to create high-performance RISC-V applications and bring their projects to life.
Key Features
- Quad-Core SiFive P550 - Performance CPU cores running @ 1.4GHz
- 16GB LPDDR5 + 128GB eMMC
- Full featured PC IO
Other Features and Specifications
SoC
ESWIN EIC7700X SoC featuring:
- SiFive Quad-Core P550 CPU cores @ 1.4 GHz
- Imagination AXM-8-256 onboard GPU (Enabled and supported via Ubuntu software update)
- HW accelerated video encoding: up to 8K@25fps (currently not supported in software)
- HW accelerated video decoding: up to 8K@50fps (currently not supported in software)
- HW accelerated AI NPU with ~20 TOPS (currently not supported in software)
Networking
- 2 10/100/1000 Ethernet RJ45 connectors
- 1 Ethernet RJ45 connector for remote board management using dedicated MCU
- 1 M.2 Key E connector for Wi-Fi / Bluetooth module (Interface via SDIO / UART)
Expansion Capabilities
- 1 PCI Express Gen 3 x4 via a PCIe x16 slot
- 2 Stacked USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A Connectors
- 1 USB 19-pin male connector to support 2 USB 3.2 Gen 1 connectors on front panel
- 1 USB type-E connector to support 1 USB 3.2 Gen Type-C connector on front panel
- 1 JTAG Header
- 1 SATA 3 connector (6Gb/s)
- 1 microSD card connector
- 1 USB Type-C (USB2 only) connector for debug UART/JTAG support through FT4232H
- 1 HDMI 2.0 connector
- Mini-ITX case compliant Front Panel Connector
- 1 CR1220 battery holder for Real Time Clock
- 3 fan headers
- 1 header for audio interface (front panel stereo line-out and line-in / microphone signals)
- 1 rear panel stereo jack with microphone input
- 1 40-pin Peripheral I/O Header (1 I2C, 1x QSPI, 1x UART, 16x GPIO)
Note: Board requires standard ATX power supply – please check here for recommended model numbers
PCIe Gen3
High speed interface
Quad Core P550
SiFive RISC-V Processor Cores
16GB LPDDR5
128GB eMMC Memory
USB 3.2
I/O Connectivity
Dimensions
USAGE
HiFive Premier P550
Documentation
HiFive Premier P550 Product Brief
HiFive Premier P550 Getting Started Guide
HiFive Premier P550 Software Reference Manual (coming soon)
Resources
Tools (coming soon)
Freedom U SDK (coming soon)
The HiFive Premier P550 Advantage
If you’re a software developer, a kernel developer, are prototyping RISC-V products with performance in mind, or simply want the highest performance RISC-V experience today, this is the board for you.
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