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November 12, 2020 - By Roddy Urquhart
The area of any part of a design contributes both to the silicon cost and to the power consumption. A simplistic following of the “A” in a processor IP vendor’s PPA numbers can be misleading. A processor is never in isolation but … Continue reading
October 16, 2020 - By Roddy Urquhart
For each embedded product, software developers need to consider whether they need an operating system; and if so, what type of an OS. Operating systems vary considerably, from real-time operating systems with a very small memory footprint to general-purpose OSes such as Linux … Continue reading
September 11, 2020 - By Roddy Urquhart
The more complex a processor core, the larger the area and power consumption. But increasing complexity is not a single dimension as processors can be more complex in different ways. In selecting a processor IP core, it is important to … Continue reading
August 21, 2020 - By Roddy Urquhart
The first thing to think about is what aspect of performance you care about. Do you care more about the absolute throughput that you want (performance per second), or the performance per MHz? In an application such as machine vision, … Continue reading
July 27, 2020 - By Roddy Urquhart
In the last three months, Codasip’s RISC-V processor offering has expanded considerably. For some years, Codasip has supplied Bk3 and Bk5 RISC-V cores aimed at low- to medium-complexity embedded applications. But recently four additional cores have joined the Codasip RISC-V offering. Three of the cores, the SweRV … Continue reading
