First out of order 64bit RISC-V development board
SiFive has launched a high performance commercial RISC-V development board using its out of order 64bit processor core that it says is the first on the market.
The HiFive Premier P550 is the highest performance RISC-V development board on the market using a quad core chip from Eswin with SiFive cores.
The board will be available for large-scale deployment through Arrow Electronics for RISC-V applications like machine vision, video analysis, AI PC and others, allowing them to use AI and other cutting-edge technologies across many different market segments.
The Eswin EIC7700 SoC on the board uses four of the P550, 64bit three-issue, out-of-order cores with 256KB L2 cache and 4MB L3 cache. The chip has a 2D/3D GPU, hardware video encoder/decoder, NPU, DSP, MIPI DSI, a security subsystem, an integrated high speed DDR5 memory controller, root complex PCI Express Gen 3 x4 and standard peripherals.
Other features include support for 16 GB of 64-bit LPDDR5-6400 memory, 128 GB of eMMC memory for fast boot, PCI Express Gen3 x4 via a PCIe x16 slot, five USB 3.2 Gen 1 ports for peripheral connectivity.
“The popularity of our development boards underscores the growth and maturity of the RISC-V ecosystem,” said Patrick Little, CEO and Chairman at SiFive. “The HiFive board has always been the ‘golden reference’ RISC-V development platform. Building on this proven foundation with the new HiFive Premier P550, developers can take advantage of SiFive’s high-performance IP in a cost-efficient platform that will be available in volume, opening up unlimited possibilities for RISC-V innovation in AI applications and beyond.”
SiFive is collaborating with Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, for a Linux distribution on the board, which comes with five years of free security maintenance for the operating system. Developers and innovators can rely on Ubuntu’s stable and secure platform to access the open source software ecosystem, and get access to bug fixes and security updates for 10+ years backed by Canonical’s enterprise-grade support.
“RISC-V is giving developers a new level of freedom to innovate, and SiFive is one of the top companies leading the charge. The availability of HiFive Premier P550 is a significant milestone for the RISC-V development community,” said Gordan Markuš, Silicon Alliances Director at Canonical. “Thanks to our collaboration with SiFive, developers using the HiFive Premier P550 board will be able to innovate at speed with Ubuntu. Additionally, Canonical’s software and services will accelerate time to market, and ensure long-term support and security maintenance for our enterprise partners.”
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