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Renesas’ first 32-bit RISC-V CPU core delivers up to 3.27 CoreMark/MHz
Renesas has recently announced its first homegrown 32-bit RISC-V CPU core based on the open-standard instruction set architecture (ISA). This CPU core is compatible with Renesas’ e2 studio IDE and...
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Lichee Console 4A RISC-V mini laptop sells for $252 and up
Sipeed Lichee Console 4A is a RISC-V portable Linux console, that I would also call a RISC-V mini laptop, powered by an Alibaba T-Head TH1520 quad-core C910 processor and equipped with up to 16GB RAM...
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SONOFF iPlug S60 – A $10.9 compact WiFi smart socket with built-in energy...
SONOFF iPlug S60 is a compact ESP32-C3-based WiFi smart socket with built-in energy monitoring support and available with either Type E/F or Type G prongs for respectively European and British...
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2023 Year in review – Top 10 posts, statistics, and what to expect in 2024
It’s the last day and last article of the year, so we will look at some highlights of 2023, some traffic statistics on the CNX Software website, and speculate what interesting developments may happen...
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Tillitis Tkey is an open-source RISC-V security key in a USB-C case
Tillitis’ TKey is a small, simple security key in a USB-C form factor, and described as a “new type of flexible USB security token” that is inspired by DICE (Device Identifier Composition Engine) and...
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WCH RISC-V microcontrollers can now be programmed with the Arduino IDE
WCH has launched some interesting RISC-V microcontrollers in the last year or so, including the “10 cents” CH32V003 RISC-V microcontroller with 2KB SRAM and 16KB flash or the CH32V307with more...
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Linux 6.7 release – Main changes, Arm, RISC-V, and MIPS architectures
Linus Torvalds has just announced the release of Linux 6.7, following Linux 6.6 LTS a little over two months ago: So we had a little bit more going on last week compared to the holiday week before...
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Espressif announces the ESP32-C61 WiFi 6 SoC with improved affordability and...
Espressif has announced the ESP32-C61 SoC, a new ESP32-Cx chip with improved wireless connectivity, and expanded memory options. The ESP32-C61 builds upon the foundation laid by previous ESP32-Cx...
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Lichee Console 4A portable RISC-V development terminal review – Part 1:...
Sipeed has just sent me a “Lichee Console 4A portable RISC-V development terminal” for review. It’s a quad-core RISC-V mini laptop based on the Alibaba T-Head TH1520 processor with a 7-inch...
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Spacetouch SPV60 AI audio processor features a 400 MHz Andes D25F RISC-V core
Spacetouch SPV60 is a RISC-V AI audio processor with an Andes D25F 32-bit RISC-V CPU IP core with P-extension (DSP/SIMD) that is also found in the Telink TLSR9 wireless audio microcontroller...
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How I “fixed” the display on Lichee Console 4A terminal
When I wrote a hands-on post about Lichee Console 4A RISC-V development terminal I noted the display would sometimes have strange effects or simply go black. I’ve now fixed the issue, and I was just...
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This new ESP32-C6-based IoT development board supports solar battery charging
DFRobot’s FireBeetle 2 ESP32-C6 is an IoT Development Board with 802.11ax (now called Wi-Fi 6), Bluetooth 5, Zigbee 3.0, Thread 1.3, and flexible power options including USB Type-C, 5V DC, and a...
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FOSDEM 2024 schedule – Open-source embedded, mobile, IoT, robotics, RISC-V,...
FOSDEM – which stands for Free and Open Source Software Developers’ European Meeting – is a free-to-participate event where thousands of developers meet in Brussels on the first week-end of February...
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Lichee Console 4A RISC-V devkit testing – Part 2: benchmarks and features in...
When checking out the hardware of the Lichee Console 4A portable RISC-V development terminal in the first part of the review, I noted that I had some troubles with the display that did not work...
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SOPHGO SG2000/SG2002 AI SoC features RISC-V, Arm, and 8051 cores, supports...
SOPHGO SG2000 and SG2002 are new SoCs featuring a bunch of RISC-V and Arm cores capable of running Linux, Android, and FreeRTOS simultaneously, and to maximize the fun an 8051 MCU core is also in the...
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LicheeRV Nano – A low-cost SG2002 RISC-V and Arm camera and display board...
When I wrote about the SOPHGO SG2002 (and SG2000) RISC-V, Arm, and 8051 AIoT processor yesterday, I noted several boards were in development, but I had not noticed the Sipeed LicheeRV Nano (Beta) was...
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Duo 256M is a compact SBC based on SG2002 multi-architecture SoC
Duo 256M is a small board powered by SOPHGO SG2002 multi-architecture Arm/RISC-V/8051 SoC with 256MB of on-chip RAM and a 1 TOPS NPU, a microSD card for storage, a camera connector, a USB-C port for...
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Microchip announces the PolarFire SoC Discovery Kit, a low-cost devkit for...
The SoC Discovery Kit is the latest addition to Microchip’s list of development kits for the PolarFire series. The series is the first SoC FPGA family powered by a deterministic, coherent RISC-V CPU...
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Embedded Open Source Summit 2024 schedule – Embedded Linux, Zephyr OS, and...
The Embedded Open Source Summit 2024 (EOSS 2024) will take place on April 16-18 and the Linux Foundation has already announced the schedule with conference sessions, lightning talks, and birds of a...
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Scaleway launches hosted RISC-V servers for 15.99 Euros per month
French company Scaleway has just launched the “Elastic Metal RV1” bare metal servers which it claims to be the world’s first RISC-V servers available in the cloud with pricing at 0.042 Euros per hour,...
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