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Renesas Introduces Industry’s First General-Purpose 32-bit RISC-V MCUs with Internally Developed CPU Core

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Tuesday, March 26, 2024
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Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE:6723), a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, today announced the industry’s first general-purpose 32-bit RISC-V-based microcontrollers (MCUs) built with an internally developed CPU core.

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  • Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE:6723), a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, today announced the industry’s first general-purpose 32-bit RISC-V-based microcontrollers (MCUs) built with an internally developed CPU core.
  • Similar to existing general-purpose MCUs, designers will have access to a full-scale development environment for the R9A02G021, provided by Renesas and its extensive network of toolchain partners.
  • The R9A02G021 group represents the first generation of general- purpose MCUs based on the internally developed RISC-V core by Renesas that will roll out over the next several years.
  • The R9A02G021 RISC-V MCUs are fully supported by Renesas’ e² studio Integrated Development Environment (IDE), offered to customers at no cost.

Tachyum Upgrades Software Package in Advance of Beta Release of the Prodigy Universal Processor

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Wednesday, February 14, 2024
Semiconductor, Data Management, Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence, Hardware, HPC, SSD, Artificial intelligence, AI, Library, Reliability, UEFI, RAS, EDAC, Universal, Prodigy, GPU, Ecosystem, Correction, OPEX, Economics, Long-Term Capital Management, LLVM, CAPEX, Serviceability, FPGA, Video game

Tachyum ® today announced that it has upgraded the software stack for the Prodigy® Universal Processor before the anticipated launch of its beta version around the end of quarter.

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  • Tachyum ® today announced that it has upgraded the software stack for the Prodigy® Universal Processor before the anticipated launch of its beta version around the end of quarter.
  • Quality completion of Prodigy’s software stack is a key component as the company continues to advance towards chip production and distribution.
  • Tachyum software engineers have worked hard to enable the full potential of Prodigy with the development of a ecosystem of applications, system software, frameworks and libraries that are ported to run natively on Prodigy hardware.
  • Once the software package completes its testing and runs cleanly on the FPGA, the company can fully transition to advancing the Universal Processor into production.

NECTO Studio 6.0 Enables Developers to Bring Circuits to Life

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Friday, February 2, 2024
Software, Technology, Hardware, MCU, Life, Multi, LCD, CPU, LLDB, GCC, RTC, Clang, Automation, LLVM, UI, ARM, Matic, IDE, DMA, Video game

Comments Nebojsa Matic, CEO of MIKROE: “The latest update to NECTO Studio IDE significantly improves the development experience.

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  • Comments Nebojsa Matic, CEO of MIKROE: “The latest update to NECTO Studio IDE significantly improves the development experience.
  • Featuring intuitive drag-and-drop functionality, this IDE update enables developers to craft visually appealing and user-friendly interfaces.
  • NECTO Studio takes a significant leap forward in improving the coding experience on multiple platforms by integrating the Clang compiler for ARM and RISC-V architectures.
  • Concludes Matic: “NECTO Studio 6.0 provides everything necessary to start developing, and prototyping, including Click board applications and GUIs for embedded devices.

Tachyum Prodigy Complete Software Package Enters Testing

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Tuesday, November 28, 2023
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Tachyum software engineers have worked hard to enable the full potential of Prodigy with the development of a rich ecosystem of applications, system software, frameworks and libraries that are ported to run natively on Prodigy hardware.

Key Points: 
  • Tachyum software engineers have worked hard to enable the full potential of Prodigy with the development of a rich ecosystem of applications, system software, frameworks and libraries that are ported to run natively on Prodigy hardware.
  • Once the software package completes its testing and runs cleanly on the FPGA, the company can fully transition to advancing the Universal Processor into production.
  • Included in the software distribution package as part of alpha testing are:
    System software including UEFI, Linux, SE-Linux, FreeBSD, KVM, XEN, GCC, LLVM, TensorFlow and PyTorch.
  • Having it available for alpha testing is a massive step towards revolutionizing the data center.”
    A video demonstrating the alpha release of Tachyum’s Prodigy software distribution package is available for viewing at https://youtu.be/XLNcOuepbUM.

qBraid Lab platform now offers access to Intel's Quantum SDK

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Monday, November 13, 2023
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CHICAGO, Nov. 13, 2023  /PRNewswire/ -- qBraid, a premiere quantum computing platform, is excited to work with the Intel quantum software team to be the first provider outside of Intel to offer access to the Intel® Quantum SDK.

Key Points: 
  • CHICAGO, Nov. 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- qBraid, a premiere quantum computing platform, is excited to work with the Intel quantum software team to be the first provider outside of Intel to offer access to the Intel® Quantum SDK.
  • The Intel Quantum SDK is an LLVM*-based compiler with quantum extensions providing intuitive C++ language extensions to program quantum kernels.
  • qBraid is now expanding the availability of the Intel Quantum SDK to the general public, where users can access the SDK to democratize quantum computing knowledge and development opportunities further.
  • As qBraid continues to grow in both research as well as improve its platform, qBraid is excited to have the Intel Quantum SDK and the Intel team onboard.

Tachyum Successfully Runs FreeBSD on Prodigy FPGA Prototype

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Tuesday, November 7, 2023
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Tachyum ® today announced that the FreeBSD operating system is now running on the Prodigy® FPGA prototype as part of efforts to ensure that customer requirements are met prior to tape-out of the world’s first universal processor.

Key Points: 
  • Tachyum ® today announced that the FreeBSD operating system is now running on the Prodigy® FPGA prototype as part of efforts to ensure that customer requirements are met prior to tape-out of the world’s first universal processor.
  • This announcement follows Tachyum successfully running the Linux OS as part of its emulation system.
  • As Tachyum readies a rich and robust collection of applications, system software, frameworks and libraries in advance of Prodigy chip production, increased customer demand for FreeBSD made testing it under FPGA a priority.
  • Applications for FreeBSD have now been added to the Quality Assurance (QA) testing timeline, which have been made a priority with the addition of FreeBSD to the FPGA prototype, in order to further satisfy customer demand.

Tachyum Adds LLVM for AI and Linux Rust Support

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Tuesday, September 19, 2023
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Tachyum ® today announced the expansion of its Prodigy software ecosystem with the addition of LLVM for AI and Linux Rust support.

Key Points: 
  • Tachyum ® today announced the expansion of its Prodigy software ecosystem with the addition of LLVM for AI and Linux Rust support.
  • Rust is a multi-paradigm, general-purpose programming language with an emphasis on performance, type safety and concurrency, and has become the second language officially accepted for Linux kernel development.
  • LLVM plays a large role in every major AI framework, including PyTorch and Tensorflow, with their AI compilers based on LLVM for native instruction generation.
  • Additionally, standalone AI compilers, like Apache TVM, are also based on the LLVM compiler infrastructure.

Industry Leaders Launch RISE to Accelerate the Development of Open Source Software for RISC-V

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Wednesday, May 31, 2023
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BRUSSELS, May 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The RISC-V Software Ecosystem (RISE) Project is a new collaborative effort that brings together global industry leaders committed to accelerating the availability of software for high-performance and power-efficient RISC-V cores running high level operating systems for a variety of market segments. The RISE Governing Board includes Andes, Google, Intel, Imagination Technologies, MediaTek, Nvidia, Qualcomm Technologies, Red Hat, Rivos, Samsung, SiFive, T-Head, and Ventana. RISE is hosted by Linux Foundation Europe and the effort supports the global open standard activities and achievements of RISC-V International.

Key Points: 
  • RISE is hosted by Linux Foundation Europe and the effort supports the global open standard activities and achievements of RISC-V International.
  • However, this momentum must be supported by performant, secure, reliable and commercial-ready software," said Amber Huffman, Chair of the RISE Project.
  • "The RISE Project brings together leaders with a shared sense of urgency to accelerate the RISC-V software ecosystem readiness in collaboration with RISC-V International."
  • RISE is dedicated to enabling a robust software ecosystem specifically for application processors that includes software development tools, virtualization support, language runtimes, Linux distribution integration, and system firmware, working upstream first with existing open source communities in accordance with open source best practices.

Intel Releases Quantum Software Development Kit Version 1.0 to Grow Developer Ecosystem

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Tuesday, February 28, 2023
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What’s New: After launching its beta version in September 2022, Intel today released version 1.0 of the Intel® Quantum Software Development Kit (SDK).

Key Points: 
  • What’s New: After launching its beta version in September 2022, Intel today released version 1.0 of the Intel® Quantum Software Development Kit (SDK).
  • The SDK is a full quantum computer in simulation that can also interface with Intel’s quantum hardware, including Intel’s Horse Ridge II control chip and Intel’s quantum spin qubit chip when it becomes available this year.
  • The kit allows developers to program quantum algorithms in simulation, and it features an intuitive programming interface written in C++ using an industry-standard low-level virtual machine (LLVM) compiler toolchain.
  • (Credit: Intel Corporation)
    “The Intel Quantum SDK helps programmers get ready for future large-scale commercial quantum computers.

Novatek Adopts CEVA's Latest Sensor Hub DSP for New Multi-sensor IP Camera SoC

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Monday, December 5, 2022
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ROCKVILLE, Md., Dec. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CEVA, Inc. (NASDAQ: CEVA), the leading licensor of wireless connectivity and smart sensing technologies and co-creation solutions today announced that Novatek Microelelctonics Corp, a leading fabless chip design company, has licensed and deployed the SP500 DSP from CEVA's SensPro2 Sensor Hub DSP architecture family in its newest generation NT98530 multi-sensor IP Camera SoC targeting surveillance, retail, smart city, transportation and more. Novatek was ranked No.2 in Taiwan and No. 6 in the world by fabless chip design house revenue in 2021, and specializes in smart display and smart image total solutions, ranging from full line of display ICs and SoC for all types of display and image applications. To date, Novatek has shipped more than 1 billion SoCs worldwide.

Key Points: 
  • The companies will showcase this latest Edge AI camera solution at CES 2023 in CEVA's meeting suite.
  • The Novatek NT98530 SoC is a highly-integrated SoC with high image quality, low bitrate, low power consumption, providing the best cost/performance Edge-Computing IP camera solution in the market today for multi-sensor security cameras.
  • SensPro2 is the highly-scalable and enhanced 2nd generation high performance sensor hub DSP for multitasking sensing and AI of multiple sensors including camera, Radar, LiDar, Time-of-Flight, microphones and inertial measurement units.
  • For sensor fusion, our Hillcrest Labs sensor processing technologies provide a broad range of sensor fusion software and inertial measurement unit ("IMU") solutions for markets including hearables, wearables, AR/VR, PC, robotics, remote controls and IoT.