Renesas Electronics Corporation, a supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, has introduced the industry’s first RISC-V MCU specifically optimized for advanced motor-control systems. The new solution enables customers to benefit from a ready-to-use, turnkey solution for motor-control applications, with no development cost. Customers benefit from reduced time to market and cost reductions with the delivery of…
First RISC-V-based system-on-chip FPGA enters mass production
The first SoC Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) to support the royalty-free RISC-V open Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) has entered volume production, marking a major milestone in the evolution of embedded processors. As customers continue to adopt PolarFire SoC FPGAs at a rapid pace, Microchip Technology is announcing the production qualification for the MPFS250T and the previously…
CISC & RISC Architecture
Instruction Set Architecture(ISA) is important from user’s/ compilers perspective. Instruction Set Architecture is a ‘functional appearance to its immediate user/programmer’. ISA involves details like addressing modes, opcodes, registers, etc. Microarchitecture is important from the perspective of processor designer. Microarchitecture defines the logical structure or organisation that implements ISA. It involves details of pipelining stages, caches, physical registers, functional units, etc.Realization of hardware is important from the perspective of chip designer. Hardware is the actual “physical structure that embodies the implementation.” It involves micro-details of gates, transistors, wires, etc.Processors having identical ISA may be very different in organization. Processors with identical ISA and nearly identical organization are still not nearly identical.
ARM (Advanced RISC Machines) Processors
By now, there would be a very small segment of the mobile community that would not have heard anything about the Android OS by Google. This OS seems to be giving many proprietary vendors a run for their money and the owners many a sleepless nights. But did you know as to what does Android depend on for its good performance apart from its robust code? What makes it run so smooth and yet amazingly fast without costing you a fortune? What drives the Android? The answer is ARMs, Advanced RISC Machines, previously known as Acorn RISC Machines. ARM machines have a 32 bit Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC) Load Store Architecture.