SiFive has upgrades its Essential product family of RISC-V intellectual property (IP) portfolio that brings a higher performance, improve power efficiency and flexible interfaces.
The RISC-V IP products are used in a range of applications like smartphones, sensors, solid state drives, field programmable gate arrays, surveillance cameras, smart watches and more.
SiFive has seen strong momentum across embedded segments where the Essential Gen4 products will bring impressive flexibility and features to enable customers to better tailor their designs. More than two billion SiFive RISC-V based chips for embedded devices have shipped to date and the market continues to grow rapidly.
Other features of the upgraded IP include:
- Up to 40% runtime power reduction
- Eight different baseline embedded 32-bit and 64-bit cores
- From two stage single-issue to eight stage superscalar
- Improved L2 cache and enhanced L1 memory
- CPU type, profile and options
- On-chip memories selection
- System, peripheral and front ports
- Power management and security
- Debug and trace
- Software support, including embedded Linux, FreeRTOS, Eclipse C/C++/ IDE