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My complements to Rocket577 (may others too). You do valuable finding that is so much appreciated. Honestly, my sincere best. You got me laughing at your new Stock Disclosure shown below your posts! Maybe that might need to be cleaned up! Too much of your Indian Spicy Curry tonight? Big fan of your 1000 eyes ability.
All the far edge AI videos have me so happy with my Brainchip Stock ownership. Could not be happier and let the multi-decade far-edge-SNN market blast!
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Europe steps up as RISC-V ships 10bn cores
Nick FLaherty looks at the development of RISC-V open standard in Europe with over 10 billion processor cores shipped
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Another major RISC-V supplier, SiFive, enhanced its X280 processor IP for the growing demand for AI inference and image processing.
SiFive opens Cambridge RISC-V design centre
The company has just opened its UK design centre in Cambridge, like Imagination tapping into the pool of skills in the area.
The design is scalable to a 16-core cache-coherent complex with security from WorldGuard and a new interface allowing for integration between the X280 vector unit and customer-designed external AI accelerators or other coprocessors, called VCIX (Vector Coprocessor Interface eXtension).
The X280 is the most widely adopted implementation of the RISC-V Vector extension with over ten design wins in the last six months.
“The market feedback about our X280 has been nothing short of incredible. The product maps extremely well to the needs of the modern workload and vector processing and was introduced at the exact right moment to accelerate RISC-V’s already considerable momentum,” said Chris Jones, VP Product at SiFive and formely at Codasip and Tensilica. “The X280 enhancements are a direct result of listening and collaborating with customers and are already designed into multiple sockets around the world. Additionally, the software ecosystem around the RISC-V vector extension is growing exponentially which ensures broad support for customers and is driving the inevitable, wide industry adoption of RISC-V.”
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Posted on yahoo 3 days ago, so hopefully it’s not old news
SiFive, a RISC-V processor core IP (Intellectual Property), is preparing to establish a Japanese corporation. It is expected that the establishment will be completed within the next week or two at the earliest. The president of SiFive Japan was Mr. Sam Rogan, who was the president of Xilinx (acquired by AMD) and CEO of Xilinx Japan. He is currently the Vice President of Japan and South Korea at SiFive.
RISC-V Core Growth Forecast [Click to Expand] Source: SiFive
In Japan, "RISC-V Day Tokyo" has been held since 2017. Why did you establish a Japanese corporation now? Jack Kang, Senior Vice President of Business Development, Customer Experience and Corporate Marketing at SiFive, at a press conference held in Tokyo on July 28, 2022, “We’ve been working with RIS We’ve been involved with Japanese customers in various ways, including C-V Day Tokyo, but we believe that the establishment of a Japanese corporation is the best time,” he said. Japanese customers are somewhat conservative, and I think some of them were looking at the importance of RISC-V and market trends. But now it's exactly the watershed of RISC-V, and the Japanese market is in a state of "prepared" for the adoption of RISC-V."
Rogan emphasises, “Although we are still visiting manufacturers in various industries from automotive to communications, RISC-V is very “receive”.”
At SiFive Japan, we will start selling and supporting RISC-V. Rogan said, “In the future, we are considering development as well. Japan is required to have very high quality, so we are also considering setting up a quality control department." In Japan, DTS Insight provides SiFive's IP, development boards, and services as the sole agent, but Rogan said that the agency agreement with DTS Insight will continue after the establishment of SiFive Japan.
SiFive is a company founded by developers of RISC-V. Currently, we have more than 300 design wins and have more than 100 customers. In March 2022, we raised US$175 million in Series F rounds, resulting in corporate value exceeding US$2.5 billion.
Although RISC-V is an open source ISA (instruction set architecture), it is also a great advantage to be able to cover various applications with a single ISA. Kang said: "Arm has released 17 ISAs over the last 16 years. RISC-V is a single ISA that can accommodate applications from small to large scale," he emphasises.
Currently, the processor family provided by SiFive is a 32-bit and 64-bit CPU core "Essential" for embedded applications, high-performance 64 for networking and infrastructure and enterprise Bit CPU core "Performance" and AI core "Intelligence" for training/inference in Edge AI (artificial intelligence) and cloud. There are 11, 4 and 2 product groups each. This is joined by the "Automotive" family, which is scheduled to be announced soon. Kang explains, “Compared to the same level of Armour core, the RISC-V core is 30-40% more power efficient,” Kang explains.
The growing RISC-V market
The RISC-V market is currently growing rapidly. Mr. Rogan says, "It's a high level of attention, especially in China and Korea." Furthermore, in China and India, we are supporting the introduction of RISC-V at the national level. The movement in China became the driving force for the formation of the RISC-V ecosystem" (Kang)
Semico Research predicts that a total of 62.4 billion RISC-V cores will be shipped by 2025. Shipments of SOCs (System on Chip) with RISC-V are expected to increase from 2020 to 2027, with an annual average annual growth rate of 73.6%. Kang said, "As we have already shipped 10 billion cores in the first half of 2022, it will probably be faster than 2025 to reach 62.4 billion."
The attention to RISC-V has increased with the announcement of the acquisition of ARM by NVIDIA. The acquisition was a breakthrough, but debates about the neutrality of CPU core vendors became vigourous, and many manufacturers began to look for “arm core alternatives.” Kang commented on this as "I think the sense of crisis has become apparent in the industry regarding the neutrality of CPU cores and ISA."
I wonder if Intel was also one of the manufacturers who felt such a sense of crisis. The company announced in February 2022 that it would join RISC-V International as a Premier (Premier) member. In addition, the development platform (development code: Horse Creek), which applies the "Intel 4" process, adopts the processor core "P550" which is the performance family of SiFive. Horse Creek is also scheduled to be released in late 2022.
Rogan emphasised that "SiFive has a chance." By establishing a Japanese corporation, we will contribute more strongly to Japanese customers."
Posted on yahoo 3 days ago, so hopefully it’s not old news
SiFive, a RISC-V processor core IP (Intellectual Property), is preparing to establish a Japanese corporation. It is expected that the establishment will be completed within the next week or two at the earliest. The president of SiFive Japan was Mr. Sam Rogan, who was the president of Xilinx (acquired by AMD) and CEO of Xilinx Japan. He is currently the Vice President of Japan and South Korea at SiFive.
RISC-V Core Growth Forecast [Click to Expand] Source: SiFive
In Japan, "RISC-V Day Tokyo" has been held since 2017. Why did you establish a Japanese corporation now? Jack Kang, Senior Vice President of Business Development, Customer Experience and Corporate Marketing at SiFive, at a press conference held in Tokyo on July 28, 2022, “We’ve been working with RIS We’ve been involved with Japanese customers in various ways, including C-V Day Tokyo, but we believe that the establishment of a Japanese corporation is the best time,” he said. Japanese customers are somewhat conservative, and I think some of them were looking at the importance of RISC-V and market trends. But now it's exactly the watershed of RISC-V, and the Japanese market is in a state of "prepared" for the adoption of RISC-V."
Rogan emphasises, “Although we are still visiting manufacturers in various industries from automotive to communications, RISC-V is very “receive”.”
At SiFive Japan, we will start selling and supporting RISC-V. Rogan said, “In the future, we are considering development as well. Japan is required to have very high quality, so we are also considering setting up a quality control department." In Japan, DTS Insight provides SiFive's IP, development boards, and services as the sole agent, but Rogan said that the agency agreement with DTS Insight will continue after the establishment of SiFive Japan.
SiFive is a company founded by developers of RISC-V. Currently, we have more than 300 design wins and have more than 100 customers. In March 2022, we raised US$175 million in Series F rounds, resulting in corporate value exceeding US$2.5 billion.
Although RISC-V is an open source ISA (instruction set architecture), it is also a great advantage to be able to cover various applications with a single ISA. Kang said: "Arm has released 17 ISAs over the last 16 years. RISC-V is a single ISA that can accommodate applications from small to large scale," he emphasises.
Currently, the processor family provided by SiFive is a 32-bit and 64-bit CPU core "Essential" for embedded applications, high-performance 64 for networking and infrastructure and enterprise Bit CPU core "Performance" and AI core "Intelligence" for training/inference in Edge AI (artificial intelligence) and cloud. There are 11, 4 and 2 product groups each. This is joined by the "Automotive" family, which is scheduled to be announced soon. Kang explains, “Compared to the same level of Armour core, the RISC-V core is 30-40% more power efficient,” Kang explains.
The growing RISC-V market
The RISC-V market is currently growing rapidly. Mr. Rogan says, "It's a high level of attention, especially in China and Korea." Furthermore, in China and India, we are supporting the introduction of RISC-V at the national level. The movement in China became the driving force for the formation of the RISC-V ecosystem" (Kang)
Semico Research predicts that a total of 62.4 billion RISC-V cores will be shipped by 2025. Shipments of SOCs (System on Chip) with RISC-V are expected to increase from 2020 to 2027, with an annual average annual growth rate of 73.6%. Kang said, "As we have already shipped 10 billion cores in the first half of 2022, it will probably be faster than 2025 to reach 62.4 billion."
The attention to RISC-V has increased with the announcement of the acquisition of ARM by NVIDIA. The acquisition was a breakthrough, but debates about the neutrality of CPU core vendors became vigourous, and many manufacturers began to look for “arm core alternatives.” Kang commented on this as "I think the sense of crisis has become apparent in the industry regarding the neutrality of CPU cores and ISA."
I wonder if Intel was also one of the manufacturers who felt such a sense of crisis. The company announced in February 2022 that it would join RISC-V International as a Premier (Premier) member. In addition, the development platform (development code: Horse Creek), which applies the "Intel 4" process, adopts the processor core "P550" which is the performance family of SiFive. Horse Creek is also scheduled to be released in late 2022.
Rogan emphasised that "SiFive has a chance." By establishing a Japanese corporation, we will contribute more strongly to Japanese customers."
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Interesting part in this other article I found (Intel 4)
Also, the previous RISC-V International estimate was that a total of 60 billion RISC-V cores will be shipped by 2025, but recently it may be further revised upward and reach 100 billion. It was a story called Ru. Under these circumstances, SiFive's core is quite widely used. The most understandable one is Renesas, which announced in April 2021 that SiFive and the next-generation automotive processors will be jointly developed. Also, during Investor Meeting 2022, which was held in February this year, at the IFS (Intel Foundry Service), SiFive/Andes/Esperanto/Ventana Although it announced that it will support RISC-V IPs such as MicroSystems, in addition to this, SiFive announced that SoCs (codenamed Horse Creek) utilising P550 cores will be mass-produced in Intel 4. It's like announcing it.
Also, the previous RISC-V International estimate was that a total of 60 billion RISC-V cores will be shipped by 2025, but recently it may be further revised upward and reach 100 billion. It was a story called Ru. Under these circumstances, SiFive's core is quite widely used. The most understandable one is Renesas, which announced in April 2021 that SiFive and the next-generation automotive processors will be jointly developed. Also, during Investor Meeting 2022, which was held in February this year, at the IFS (Intel Foundry Service), SiFive/Andes/Esperanto/Ventana Although it announced that it will support RISC-V IPs such as MicroSystems, in addition to this, SiFive announced that SoCs (codenamed Horse Creek) utilising P550 cores will be mass-produced in Intel 4. It's like announcing it.
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SiFive RISC-V . at the forefront of innovation - Business News
The company is well positioned to challenge CPU incumbents to open ISA architectures with high-performance RISC-V CPUs and vector extensions.
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SiFive Is Leading The Way For Innovation On RISC-V
While RISC-V first gained traction in the low-end embedded market, where the open ISA model afforded more cost-effective designs, RISC-V is now getting more wind in its sails due to performance and power efficiency, especially with vector enhancements with advantages over alternative ISAs.
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Introducing SiFive Automotive Products
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this looks interesting, we must be in here somewhere.
Introducing the SiFive Automotive Family of Products
SiFive has launched its new product portfolio and the first three SiFive Automotive product series, each with area and performance optimized variants for their intended use. SiFive is the only RISC-V IP supplier to offer multiple processor series that optimally meet automotive designers’ exact compute, integrity, and security requirements across a broad range of computing applications, from MCUs to complex SoCs. All of the product variants offer best-in-class levels of functional safety and security capabilities, with a high degree of configurability to different integrity levels. The E6-A is the first commercially available offering. The E6-A is a 32-bit real-time core, with broad availability later in 2022. By the second half of 2023, two more product series will be added to the portfolio, the X280-A and S7-A. The X280-A is a vector capable processor ideally suited for edge sensing in ADAS, sensor fusion applications, and any ML/AI accelerated functionality in the vehicle. The S7-A is an optimized 64-bit CPU tailored for safety islands as often used in ADAS, gateways, and domain controllers. A standout feature of S7-A is native 64-bit support, meaning that the safety island can now access the same memory space as the application CPUs.
Later in 2023, a new high-end processor, configurable to up to 16-cores, will be added to the portfolio. Customers should expect best-in-class performance and ASIL support and a tailored automotive alternative for high performance CPU IP. And much more is on the way in the coming months as the roadmap expands to meet market needs, and our SW, tools and OS partners add new levels of support.
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SiFive Seeks to Fuel Next-Gen Designs with Automotive RISC-V Cores
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With its new portfolio of automotive RISC-V processor cores, SiFive aims to solve challenges in the design of evolving digital cars.
The RISC-V movement has been gaining some serious momentum this summer, finding value in a variety of fields and use cases. As a testament to this, the past week alone has seen the RISC-V movement has been bolstered by news from both Intel and NASA.
Now, that momentum is continuing again this week, this time with RISC-V finding its way into the automotive sector. This week, SiFive led the way along those lines with the announcement of a new portfolio of RISC-V processors designed to meet the demands of the next-generation automotive market.
In this article, we’ll look at the benefits of RISC-V for automotive as well as the new releases from SiFive.
Automotive Challenges
Today, the automotive industry is undergoing a revolution unlike any other time in history. The complete electrification and digitization of almost every facet of the automobile are creating smarter, safer, and more sustainable cars, but also come with a number of technical challenges.
Some of the many computing tasks within a modern automobile.
Some of the many computing tasks within a modern automobile. Image used courtesy of Johnson Automotive (Click image to enlarge)
One of the major challenges is the increased dependence on compute-intensive software and services within the car. For example, many of the applications within a vehicle, such as autonomous driving functions, rely on real-time processing for proper execution.
The result is that automotive designers are finding themselves in need of greater onboard computing capabilities in order to perform fast and reliable processing.
At the same time, next-generation automobiles simultaneously rely on a myriad of different computing tasks, ranging from infotainment systems, to wireless communications, to machine learning processing and computer vision. This broad range of applications makes it difficult to design a system that can perform all these tasks at a high level.
Together, these are driving the need for flexible and powerful computing hardware that is capable of supporting a variety of tasks without sacrificing performance or reliability.
RISC-V for Automotive
In the eyes of many, RISC-V presents a solution to many of these challenges. Some of the major benefits of RISC-V in the automotive space are the simplicity and performance that it brings to automotive design.
By using a single instruction set architecture (ISA) with RISC-V, a designer can create an automotive computing platform that enables a high level of code portability as well as decreased time to market. At the same time, many RISC-V offerings have been shown to offer high levels of performance as well as energy efficiency, making these devices ideal tools for automotive applications.
Beyond this, the RISC-V movement also provides designers with flexibility. Since RISC-V has grown globally, now consisting of thousands of members, there has emerged a wide variety of existing IP and resources on the market as well as the tools and information necessary to help designers create their own IP if needed.
SiFive’s Automotive RISC-V Portfolio
SiFive’s new portfolio of automotive-facing RISC-V offerings is part of the first phase of a long-term roadmap, says the company. The announcement describes three automotive solutions: the E6-A, X280-A, and S7-A.
The E6-A series is a 32-bit RISC-V processor that was designed specifically for real-time computing applications including system control and security. Built off of a single issue, in-order 8-stage Harvard Pipeline, and tightly integrated memory and cache subsystems, SiFive is describing the E6-A processors as offering mid-range power-efficient performance. SiFive tells us that the E6-A will be offered in ASIL A, B, and D safety levels and will be available by the end of 2022. The E6-A’s product page does not include a datasheet. It mentions a “Automotive E6-A Development Kit,” but with few details about it so far.
The E6-A RISC-V processor will support ASIL A, B, and D safety levels.
The E6-A RISC-V processor will support ASIL A, B, and D safety levels. Image used courtesy of SiFive
Following the E6-A, SiFive plans to release both the X280-A and S7-A by the second half of 2023. The X280-A will be a vector-capable processor that is optimized for sensor fusion, ADAS, and machine learning applications within the vehicle.
S7-A, on the other hand, will be tailored for applications such as ADAS, gateways, and domain controllers. To do this, the S7-A will be a real-time core that features native 64-bit support. As of now, there are no product pages on SiFive’s site for either the S7-A or the X280-A.
Together, SiFive hopes that its automotive line will provide automotive designers with the computing flexibility and performance needed to support the compute-intensive and varied tasks required by next-generation automobiles.
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SiFive Rolls Out Powerful New RISC-V Portfolio to Address Unmet Performance and Feature Needs of Rapidly Evolving Next-Gen Digital Automobiles
SiFive introduces Automotive E6-A, X280-A, and S7-A products and long-term roadmap
San Mateo, Calif. , September 13, 2022 - SiFive, Inc. the founder and leader of RISC-V computing, today announced three products as part of the first phase of a long-term roadmap and portfolio designed to meet the specific needs of automotive manufacturers and their suppliers. SiFive Automotive™ E6-A, X280-A, and S7-A solutions address critical needs for current and future applications like infotainment, cockpit, connectivity, ADAS, and electrification, as the market transitions to zonal architectures and manufacturers require the energy efficiency, simplicity, security, and software flexibility that RISC-V offers. SiFive's high-end applications and real-time processors offer industry-leading performance, with the lowest area and power consumption, and are being tailored to vehicle specific needs for safety, security, and performance. The company also highlighted a growing list of top-tier customers and leading ecosystem partners, and how they are collaborating to deliver comprehensive automotive solutions.
The transformation to the digital automobile has changed, accelerated, and increased the demands on computing requirements, the pace of innovation, and the flexibility required within the automotive supply ecosystem. This rapid evolution is driving the success of RISC-V in the automotive market, which is taking advantage of its flexible, modern architecture, fast growing ecosystem, and proven power and performance benefits to bring solutions that accelerate the pace of innovation in the vehicle space.
“SiFive is combining the best RISC-V benefits in the only end-to-end portfolio designed to meet automotive needs today and long into the future,” said Patrick Little, CEO and Chairman, SiFive. “We are seeing widespread interest in our new RISC-V automotive solutions and are working closely with several leading semiconductor companies and top-tier suppliers, who are turning to the flexibility of our highest performance cores in areas like safety-critical compute applications. Customers are now able to take advantage of our latest, most powerful cores to bring exciting innovations to consumers.”
“Renesas has been closely collaborating with SiFive to bring the strong benefits of RISC-V to many of our products,” said Takeshi Kataoka, Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Automotive Solution Business Unit at Renesas. “RISC-V continues to gain momentum around the world, and we plan to leverage SiFive’s portfolio of automotive RISC-V products in our future automotive SoC solutions to meet the exacting demands of these global customers. Partnering with an innovation leader like SiFive is a logical step that allows us to fuel our growth and meet our customer’s evolving requirements.”
RISC-V: Meeting Automotive Requirements Today and Into the Future
RISC-V brings a host of benefits to the automotive industry. Using a single instruction set architecture (ISA) across all product offerings – from safety islands to real-time products to highest performance ADAS and central zone compute – increases code portability and can greatly reduce cost and time-to-market, while RISC-V vector extensions bring enhanced machine learning and DSP capabilities. The global RISC-V ecosystem is growing rapidly, particularly in the U.S. and China, and consists of more than three thousand members. This provides wide choice and ensures future support and innovation. Working without proprietary lock-in, companies can license from multiple vendors and have more flexibility to design their own IP where needed, while maintaining software and ecosystem compatibility.
"Semiconductors are rapidly becoming the most critical component to the next generation of vehicles. With chips set to be over 20% of the BoM for cars by the end of the decade, the development of power-efficient, highly performant chips will continue to be a key priority for automotive manufacturers seeking to develop the most innovative automobiles for the future,” said Daniel Newman, Principal Analyst for Futurum Research. “SiFive continues to play an important role in leading the evolution of chip designs based on RISC-V, which I expect will gain market momentum as auto manufacturers seek to level up their vehicles to meet the increased demands of consumers wanting the most forward thinking, safe, and secure technology in their cars."
The company is also working with a growing list of ecosystem partners to build a comprehensive RISC-V automotive solution set. Check out the partner list here.. Also see the list of partner quotes below.
The SiFive Automotive E6-A, S7-A, and X280-A Series of Processors
The SiFive Automotive processor family offers the highest level of flexibility from any CPU IP vendor, with options that enable both area and performance optimization for different integrity levels like ASIL B, ASIL D, or mixed criticalities with split-lock, in line with ISO26262.
E6-A series for a variety of real-time, 32-bit applications, from system control to hardware security modules (HSMs) and safety islands, and as standalone in microcontrollers.
S7-A is a 64-bit, high-performance real-time core perfectly suited to the needs of modern SoCs with performant safety islands, requiring both low latency interrupt support and the same 64b memory space visibility as the main application CPUs.
X280-A builds on the successful performance and power efficiency of the X280 and is ideal for sensors, sensor fusion, and other vector or ML intensive workloads in automotive applications.
The SiFive Automotive family will also expand its portfolio in 2023 with a very high performance, out of order, application CPU with best-in-class performance and automotive capabilities.
SiFive's automotive products are accompanied by relevant safety packages that include documentation to accelerate the integration of the Safety Element out of Context (SEooC) and, with it, our customers’ time-to-market. Independent assessments of ASIL claims will support SiFive's safety claims.
Enabling solutions include proven SiFive WorldGuard security solutions. With tailored levels of integrity for functional safety, SiFive Automotive products are also compliant with relevant cybersecurity standards, such as WP.29, R155, and ISO21434.
Future Automobiles will be Powered by RISC-V
SiFive is creating a complete lineup of compute IP for MCUs, MPUs, and high-performance SoCs, as well as vector processing solutions tailored for automotive applications, with the first high-performance, out-of-order, Automotive family cores planned for late 2023.
"We are making a significant long-term investment into the future of automotive, and we are continuing to assemble a world-class team of automotive CPU design experts who are collaborating with industry leaders to drive the digital vehicle forward," continued Little.
From technologists like Monia Chiavacci who is a globally recognized pioneer in Functional Safety (FuSA) applied to systems-on-a-chip, a critical auto safety innovation, to Chairman and CEO, Patrick Little, who helped build the successful automotive business at Qualcomm, SiFive has put in place the team and tools to advance the digital automobile with RISC-V.
"One of the things that brought me to a leader like SiFive was the incredible potential of RISC-V, enabled by SiFive's innovations, to develop solutions for some of the automotive industry’s greatest challenges while ensuring flexibility and faster time to market for both suppliers and manufacturers," said Monia Chiavacci, SiFive Senior Principal Architect. "In addition to delivering our powerful processors, we are equally focused on ensuring the highest levels of functional safety without compromising performance and innovation."
With several lead customers already, the SiFive Automotive E6 products will ship in Q4 of this year and the S7A and X280A are expected to be available shortly after.
Learn more about SiFive’s Automotive Family of Products here.
In addition to the announcement of our own new RISC-V automotive product portfolio, SiFive is pleased to have the support of a wide base of ecosystem partners who are collaborating closely with us as we work to create the industry’s most comprehensive automotive solutions offering.
Ashling Ashling’s toolchain and RISC-V have grown to be synonymous as the embedded market continues to move from general purpose chips to fully/semi-custom multi-core solutions. Ashling’s RiscFree™ toolchain offers full customization package that allows development of a comprehensive, multi-core, heterogeneous, SDK tool suite tailored and optimized for any RISC-V based IP or device. Since the early days of RISC-V, Ashling’s comprehensive debug and trace solutions have supported SiFive Essential™ processors, with strong customer adoption, and we have plans to support SiFive’s RISC-V processor roadmap.
“For more than thirty years, Ashling’s toolchain and its various trace development solutions, including Ashling’s VITRA trace debug product, have been used by leading automotive companies. We are happy to extend our collaboration with SiFive to join in their automotive initiative by adding support for new SiFive Automotive processor portfolio, including work already underway for the SiFive Automotive™ E6-A. We are confident our Ashling toolchain and trace solution will offer significant added value to customers adopting SiFive Automotive processors,” said Hugh O’Keeffe, CEO of Ashling.
Cadence “Cadence looks forward to collaborating with SiFive on an automotive reference flow that utilizes our industry-leading digital, custom and verification solutions to enable mutual customers to design and deliver their SoCs quickly with optimal power, performance and area,” said KT Moore, vice president, Corporate Marketing, Cadence
Canonical “Canonical is thrilled to collaborate with SiFive in co-creating automotive solutions. With the advent of autonomous and connected cars, open-source software has become essential in fueling innovation in the automotive industry,” said Gordan Markus, silicon alliances partner manager, Canonical. “With the growing need to manage hardware and software complexity, Canonical and SiFive are perfectly positioned to allow our partners to bring efficient and performant automotive solutions to market at an accelerated pace. Furthermore, Ubuntu provides our partners with development simplicity, while ensuring enterprise-grade support and security.”
Elektrobit “Elektrobit is a leading provider of software solutions and services for the automotive industry with years of deep expertise in developing safety-critical applications to the highest standards,” said Mike Robertson, vice president, global product management and strategy, Elektrobit. “We see RISC-V building momentum in processor IP. As the automotive market continues to grow and evolve, Elektrobit is excited about the opportunities to develop applications based on SiFive’s extensive roadmap of RISC-V Automotive processors.”
Green Hills “As a global leader in embedded software with the broadest portfolio of ASIL D certified software solutions for 32-bit MCU to 64-bit MPUs, Green Hills is excited to be supporting SiFive’s impressive range of automotive-focused RISC-V CPU IP,” said Dan Mender, Vice President, Business Development, Green Hills Software. “To complement this remarkable new SiFive Automotive portfolio, Green Hills brings its unique ability to deliver MCU-to-MPU production-proven FuSa-certified tools, C/C++ compilers and RTOSes, along with decades of safety program expertise.”
IAR Systems “SiFive is a leading provider in the RISC-V ecosystem and has a long-standing relationship with IAR Systems. We are equally both excited and committed to supporting their increased focus on the Automotive-vertical,” said Anders Holmberg, CTO at IAR Systems. “The combination of innovative Automotive Functional Safety IP from SiFive and the certified development tools from IAR Systems is a perfect match. Building on IAR Systems’ 20+ years of experience supporting Functional Safety use cases, and the tens of thousands of developers using our products, there is now a true better-together offering to accelerate innovation in automobiles.”
iSystem AG “We are working with SiFive and other ecosystem partners on early support of RISC-V cores as we see them as an important contender in the future automotive market,” said Erol Simsek, CEO of iSYSTEM AG. “Our tools are designed to verify stringent safety requirements for automotive electronics, and a close cooperation with SiFive ensures that the very first device will offer all the necessary debug and real-time trace capabilities. Early adopters looking to evaluate RISC-V architecture can already use iSYSTEM tools to do so on existing SiFive devices or pre-silicon FPGA platforms.”
Lauterbach “It has always been a priority for Lauterbach to work closely with innovation leaders like SiFive to provide our customers with proven tools as soon as they are needed,” said Markus Herdin, head of marketing at Lauterbach. “We see the automotive industry as one of the big growth areas for RISC-V and are here to help with debug and trace solutions that meet the specific needs of this industry. We believe that with SiFive’s E6-A series, RISC-V will gain further momentum in automotive applications, which we will be delighted to support with our tools.”
Resiltech “Resiltech, aware of the importance of the role of RISC-V products and its ecosystems for the next generation automotive applications, is fully committed to confirm long-term support to SiFive to enable compliance of its automotive IP with the highest automotive safety requirements.” – Dr. Rosaria Esposito, CEO, Resiltech s.r.l.
SEGGER “SEGGER has been supporting RISC-V since 2017, and we support the complete range of RV32 and RV64 cores from SiFive,” said Rolf Segger, founder of SEGGER. “The SEGGER Software Platform – including the Embedded Studio IDE, the J-Link debug probes, as well as our embOS RTOS and associated middleware – provides a comprehensive one-stop solution for complete product development with microcontrollers based on the RISC-V architecture. We are excited to be part of SiFive’s Automotive initiative, and we are looking forward to supporting the E6-A product series in the near future.”
Siemens “Siemens Digital Industries Software has a long history of offering leading embedded software solutions for the automotive industry and is excited to extend our existing partnership with SiFive to enable even greater innovation in future automotive products,” said Jeff Hancock, Sr. Product Manager, Siemens Digital Industries Software.
Solid Sands Over the past few years, we have seen accelerated adoption of RISC-V worldwide. What surprises us is the speed of this also happening in the safety-critical automotive market, which is known to be conservative. Which implies that SiFive, with its RISC-V solution, solves a problem that is hard to crack. We are happy to assist SiFive customers with compiler and library automotive qualifications and see no inherent roadblocks to prevent open hardware and software from being used in safety-critical applications. - Marcel Beemster, CTO - Solid Sands
Synopsys “In the era of software-defined vehicles, Synopsys is helping to drive safety, security, reliability, and quality in the automotive digital value chain,” said Kiran Vittal, senior director of marketing in the Silicon Realization Group at Synopsys. “By collaborating with SiFive, we are enabling mutual customers to leverage our EDA design and verification solutions to achieve the optimal performance, power, area, and prototyping efficiency, while accelerating automotive-compliance for their RISC-V designs.”
SYSGO “SYSGO is proud to be a leading partner of SiFive with support for SiFive’s portfolio of RISC-V processors,” said Franz Walkembach, VP Marketing & Alliances at SYSGO. “With our certifiable hard real-time PikeOS operating system and hypervisor software combined with extensive technology expertise in functional safety, we will further support SiFive’s RISC-V solutions in markets such as Automotive, Space, Railway and Avionics.”
TASKING “As a trusted supplier to the automotive industry, TASKING is pleased to support the market introduction of SiFive Automotive processors. The TASKING® VX-toolset for RISC-V is a complete solution for code development for RISC-V based automotive ECUs. The VX-toolset for RISC-V produces fast and compact code and is being certified according to ISO 26262 functional safety and ISO/SAE 21434 cybersecurity standards,” said Gerard Vink, RISC-V Product Line Responsible, Tasking.
VIRTUAL OPEN SYSTEMS "At Virtual Open Systems (VOSyS) we are excited to port our ISO26260 certifiable mixed criticality virtualization solution VOSySmonitoRV to the SiFive automotive product family. The work at VOSyS side is well started, and we have proven Linux OS with FreeRTOS co-execution; this activity continues, and we are proceeding with MISRA and functional coverage. The plan is to complete ASIL certification based on the S7-A processor series in 2023," said Daniel Raho, CEO
WITTENSTEIN “As RISC-V becomes more popular, WITTENSTEIN high integrity systems’ partnership with SiFive allows us to support customers with the most cutting-edge processors, said Stephen Ridley, Engineering Manager at WHIS. “We are excited to see the ever-expanding automotive portfolio of SiFive and look expectantly to what is to come. SiFive have made it possible to develop new hardware faster than ever before, a must in the evolving automotive market. SiFive's automotive offerings are a great fit with SAFERTOS, our safety critical RTOS. Together they make a compelling package for automotive. WHIS and SiFive look forward to a continuation of our close collaboration in the future.
About SiFive As the pioneers who introduced RISC-V to the world, SiFive is transforming the future of compute by bringing the limitless potential of RISC-V to the highest performance and most data-intensive applications in the world. SiFive’s unrivaled compute platforms have enabled leading technology companies around the world to innovate, optimize and deliver the most advanced solutions of tomorrow across every market segment of chip design, including artificial intelligence, machine learning, automotive, data center, mobile, and consumer. With SiFive, the future of RISC-V has no limits. For more information, please visit SiFive.com.
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Corporate Communications,
SiFive,
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SiFive introduces Automotive E6-A, X280-A, and S7-A products and long-term roadmap
San Mateo, Calif. , September 13, 2022 - SiFive, Inc. the founder and leader of RISC-V computing, today announced three products as part of the first phase of a long-term roadmap and portfolio designed to meet the specific needs of automotive manufacturers and their suppliers. SiFive Automotive™ E6-A, X280-A, and S7-A solutions address critical needs for current and future applications like infotainment, cockpit, connectivity, ADAS, and electrification, as the market transitions to zonal architectures and manufacturers require the energy efficiency, simplicity, security, and software flexibility that RISC-V offers. SiFive's high-end applications and real-time processors offer industry-leading performance, with the lowest area and power consumption, and are being tailored to vehicle specific needs for safety, security, and performance. The company also highlighted a growing list of top-tier customers and leading ecosystem partners, and how they are collaborating to deliver comprehensive automotive solutions.
The transformation to the digital automobile has changed, accelerated, and increased the demands on computing requirements, the pace of innovation, and the flexibility required within the automotive supply ecosystem. This rapid evolution is driving the success of RISC-V in the automotive market, which is taking advantage of its flexible, modern architecture, fast growing ecosystem, and proven power and performance benefits to bring solutions that accelerate the pace of innovation in the vehicle space.
“SiFive is combining the best RISC-V benefits in the only end-to-end portfolio designed to meet automotive needs today and long into the future,” said Patrick Little, CEO and Chairman, SiFive. “We are seeing widespread interest in our new RISC-V automotive solutions and are working closely with several leading semiconductor companies and top-tier suppliers, who are turning to the flexibility of our highest performance cores in areas like safety-critical compute applications. Customers are now able to take advantage of our latest, most powerful cores to bring exciting innovations to consumers.”
“Renesas has been closely collaborating with SiFive to bring the strong benefits of RISC-V to many of our products,” said Takeshi Kataoka, Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Automotive Solution Business Unit at Renesas. “RISC-V continues to gain momentum around the world, and we plan to leverage SiFive’s portfolio of automotive RISC-V products in our future automotive SoC solutions to meet the exacting demands of these global customers. Partnering with an innovation leader like SiFive is a logical step that allows us to fuel our growth and meet our customer’s evolving requirements.”
RISC-V: Meeting Automotive Requirements Today and Into the Future
RISC-V brings a host of benefits to the automotive industry. Using a single instruction set architecture (ISA) across all product offerings – from safety islands to real-time products to highest performance ADAS and central zone compute – increases code portability and can greatly reduce cost and time-to-market, while RISC-V vector extensions bring enhanced machine learning and DSP capabilities. The global RISC-V ecosystem is growing rapidly, particularly in the U.S. and China, and consists of more than three thousand members. This provides wide choice and ensures future support and innovation. Working without proprietary lock-in, companies can license from multiple vendors and have more flexibility to design their own IP where needed, while maintaining software and ecosystem compatibility.
"Semiconductors are rapidly becoming the most critical component to the next generation of vehicles. With chips set to be over 20% of the BoM for cars by the end of the decade, the development of power-efficient, highly performant chips will continue to be a key priority for automotive manufacturers seeking to develop the most innovative automobiles for the future,” said Daniel Newman, Principal Analyst for Futurum Research. “SiFive continues to play an important role in leading the evolution of chip designs based on RISC-V, which I expect will gain market momentum as auto manufacturers seek to level up their vehicles to meet the increased demands of consumers wanting the most forward thinking, safe, and secure technology in their cars."
The company is also working with a growing list of ecosystem partners to build a comprehensive RISC-V automotive solution set. Check out the partner list here.. Also see the list of partner quotes below.
The SiFive Automotive E6-A, S7-A, and X280-A Series of Processors
The SiFive Automotive processor family offers the highest level of flexibility from any CPU IP vendor, with options that enable both area and performance optimization for different integrity levels like ASIL B, ASIL D, or mixed criticalities with split-lock, in line with ISO26262.
E6-A series for a variety of real-time, 32-bit applications, from system control to hardware security modules (HSMs) and safety islands, and as standalone in microcontrollers.
S7-A is a 64-bit, high-performance real-time core perfectly suited to the needs of modern SoCs with performant safety islands, requiring both low latency interrupt support and the same 64b memory space visibility as the main application CPUs.
X280-A builds on the successful performance and power efficiency of the X280 and is ideal for sensors, sensor fusion, and other vector or ML intensive workloads in automotive applications.
The SiFive Automotive family will also expand its portfolio in 2023 with a very high performance, out of order, application CPU with best-in-class performance and automotive capabilities.
SiFive's automotive products are accompanied by relevant safety packages that include documentation to accelerate the integration of the Safety Element out of Context (SEooC) and, with it, our customers’ time-to-market. Independent assessments of ASIL claims will support SiFive's safety claims.
Enabling solutions include proven SiFive WorldGuard security solutions. With tailored levels of integrity for functional safety, SiFive Automotive products are also compliant with relevant cybersecurity standards, such as WP.29, R155, and ISO21434.
Future Automobiles will be Powered by RISC-V
SiFive is creating a complete lineup of compute IP for MCUs, MPUs, and high-performance SoCs, as well as vector processing solutions tailored for automotive applications, with the first high-performance, out-of-order, Automotive family cores planned for late 2023.
"We are making a significant long-term investment into the future of automotive, and we are continuing to assemble a world-class team of automotive CPU design experts who are collaborating with industry leaders to drive the digital vehicle forward," continued Little.
From technologists like Monia Chiavacci who is a globally recognized pioneer in Functional Safety (FuSA) applied to systems-on-a-chip, a critical auto safety innovation, to Chairman and CEO, Patrick Little, who helped build the successful automotive business at Qualcomm, SiFive has put in place the team and tools to advance the digital automobile with RISC-V.
"One of the things that brought me to a leader like SiFive was the incredible potential of RISC-V, enabled by SiFive's innovations, to develop solutions for some of the automotive industry’s greatest challenges while ensuring flexibility and faster time to market for both suppliers and manufacturers," said Monia Chiavacci, SiFive Senior Principal Architect. "In addition to delivering our powerful processors, we are equally focused on ensuring the highest levels of functional safety without compromising performance and innovation."
With several lead customers already, the SiFive Automotive E6 products will ship in Q4 of this year and the S7A and X280A are expected to be available shortly after.
Learn more about SiFive’s Automotive Family of Products here.
In addition to the announcement of our own new RISC-V automotive product portfolio, SiFive is pleased to have the support of a wide base of ecosystem partners who are collaborating closely with us as we work to create the industry’s most comprehensive automotive solutions offering.
Ashling Ashling’s toolchain and RISC-V have grown to be synonymous as the embedded market continues to move from general purpose chips to fully/semi-custom multi-core solutions. Ashling’s RiscFree™ toolchain offers full customization package that allows development of a comprehensive, multi-core, heterogeneous, SDK tool suite tailored and optimized for any RISC-V based IP or device. Since the early days of RISC-V, Ashling’s comprehensive debug and trace solutions have supported SiFive Essential™ processors, with strong customer adoption, and we have plans to support SiFive’s RISC-V processor roadmap.
“For more than thirty years, Ashling’s toolchain and its various trace development solutions, including Ashling’s VITRA trace debug product, have been used by leading automotive companies. We are happy to extend our collaboration with SiFive to join in their automotive initiative by adding support for new SiFive Automotive processor portfolio, including work already underway for the SiFive Automotive™ E6-A. We are confident our Ashling toolchain and trace solution will offer significant added value to customers adopting SiFive Automotive processors,” said Hugh O’Keeffe, CEO of Ashling.
Cadence “Cadence looks forward to collaborating with SiFive on an automotive reference flow that utilizes our industry-leading digital, custom and verification solutions to enable mutual customers to design and deliver their SoCs quickly with optimal power, performance and area,” said KT Moore, vice president, Corporate Marketing, Cadence
Canonical “Canonical is thrilled to collaborate with SiFive in co-creating automotive solutions. With the advent of autonomous and connected cars, open-source software has become essential in fueling innovation in the automotive industry,” said Gordan Markus, silicon alliances partner manager, Canonical. “With the growing need to manage hardware and software complexity, Canonical and SiFive are perfectly positioned to allow our partners to bring efficient and performant automotive solutions to market at an accelerated pace. Furthermore, Ubuntu provides our partners with development simplicity, while ensuring enterprise-grade support and security.”
Elektrobit “Elektrobit is a leading provider of software solutions and services for the automotive industry with years of deep expertise in developing safety-critical applications to the highest standards,” said Mike Robertson, vice president, global product management and strategy, Elektrobit. “We see RISC-V building momentum in processor IP. As the automotive market continues to grow and evolve, Elektrobit is excited about the opportunities to develop applications based on SiFive’s extensive roadmap of RISC-V Automotive processors.”
Green Hills “As a global leader in embedded software with the broadest portfolio of ASIL D certified software solutions for 32-bit MCU to 64-bit MPUs, Green Hills is excited to be supporting SiFive’s impressive range of automotive-focused RISC-V CPU IP,” said Dan Mender, Vice President, Business Development, Green Hills Software. “To complement this remarkable new SiFive Automotive portfolio, Green Hills brings its unique ability to deliver MCU-to-MPU production-proven FuSa-certified tools, C/C++ compilers and RTOSes, along with decades of safety program expertise.”
IAR Systems “SiFive is a leading provider in the RISC-V ecosystem and has a long-standing relationship with IAR Systems. We are equally both excited and committed to supporting their increased focus on the Automotive-vertical,” said Anders Holmberg, CTO at IAR Systems. “The combination of innovative Automotive Functional Safety IP from SiFive and the certified development tools from IAR Systems is a perfect match. Building on IAR Systems’ 20+ years of experience supporting Functional Safety use cases, and the tens of thousands of developers using our products, there is now a true better-together offering to accelerate innovation in automobiles.”
iSystem AG “We are working with SiFive and other ecosystem partners on early support of RISC-V cores as we see them as an important contender in the future automotive market,” said Erol Simsek, CEO of iSYSTEM AG. “Our tools are designed to verify stringent safety requirements for automotive electronics, and a close cooperation with SiFive ensures that the very first device will offer all the necessary debug and real-time trace capabilities. Early adopters looking to evaluate RISC-V architecture can already use iSYSTEM tools to do so on existing SiFive devices or pre-silicon FPGA platforms.”
Lauterbach “It has always been a priority for Lauterbach to work closely with innovation leaders like SiFive to provide our customers with proven tools as soon as they are needed,” said Markus Herdin, head of marketing at Lauterbach. “We see the automotive industry as one of the big growth areas for RISC-V and are here to help with debug and trace solutions that meet the specific needs of this industry. We believe that with SiFive’s E6-A series, RISC-V will gain further momentum in automotive applications, which we will be delighted to support with our tools.”
Resiltech “Resiltech, aware of the importance of the role of RISC-V products and its ecosystems for the next generation automotive applications, is fully committed to confirm long-term support to SiFive to enable compliance of its automotive IP with the highest automotive safety requirements.” – Dr. Rosaria Esposito, CEO, Resiltech s.r.l.
SEGGER “SEGGER has been supporting RISC-V since 2017, and we support the complete range of RV32 and RV64 cores from SiFive,” said Rolf Segger, founder of SEGGER. “The SEGGER Software Platform – including the Embedded Studio IDE, the J-Link debug probes, as well as our embOS RTOS and associated middleware – provides a comprehensive one-stop solution for complete product development with microcontrollers based on the RISC-V architecture. We are excited to be part of SiFive’s Automotive initiative, and we are looking forward to supporting the E6-A product series in the near future.”
Siemens “Siemens Digital Industries Software has a long history of offering leading embedded software solutions for the automotive industry and is excited to extend our existing partnership with SiFive to enable even greater innovation in future automotive products,” said Jeff Hancock, Sr. Product Manager, Siemens Digital Industries Software.
Solid Sands Over the past few years, we have seen accelerated adoption of RISC-V worldwide. What surprises us is the speed of this also happening in the safety-critical automotive market, which is known to be conservative. Which implies that SiFive, with its RISC-V solution, solves a problem that is hard to crack. We are happy to assist SiFive customers with compiler and library automotive qualifications and see no inherent roadblocks to prevent open hardware and software from being used in safety-critical applications. - Marcel Beemster, CTO - Solid Sands
Synopsys “In the era of software-defined vehicles, Synopsys is helping to drive safety, security, reliability, and quality in the automotive digital value chain,” said Kiran Vittal, senior director of marketing in the Silicon Realization Group at Synopsys. “By collaborating with SiFive, we are enabling mutual customers to leverage our EDA design and verification solutions to achieve the optimal performance, power, area, and prototyping efficiency, while accelerating automotive-compliance for their RISC-V designs.”
SYSGO “SYSGO is proud to be a leading partner of SiFive with support for SiFive’s portfolio of RISC-V processors,” said Franz Walkembach, VP Marketing & Alliances at SYSGO. “With our certifiable hard real-time PikeOS operating system and hypervisor software combined with extensive technology expertise in functional safety, we will further support SiFive’s RISC-V solutions in markets such as Automotive, Space, Railway and Avionics.”
TASKING “As a trusted supplier to the automotive industry, TASKING is pleased to support the market introduction of SiFive Automotive processors. The TASKING® VX-toolset for RISC-V is a complete solution for code development for RISC-V based automotive ECUs. The VX-toolset for RISC-V produces fast and compact code and is being certified according to ISO 26262 functional safety and ISO/SAE 21434 cybersecurity standards,” said Gerard Vink, RISC-V Product Line Responsible, Tasking.
VIRTUAL OPEN SYSTEMS "At Virtual Open Systems (VOSyS) we are excited to port our ISO26260 certifiable mixed criticality virtualization solution VOSySmonitoRV to the SiFive automotive product family. The work at VOSyS side is well started, and we have proven Linux OS with FreeRTOS co-execution; this activity continues, and we are proceeding with MISRA and functional coverage. The plan is to complete ASIL certification based on the S7-A processor series in 2023," said Daniel Raho, CEO
WITTENSTEIN “As RISC-V becomes more popular, WITTENSTEIN high integrity systems’ partnership with SiFive allows us to support customers with the most cutting-edge processors, said Stephen Ridley, Engineering Manager at WHIS. “We are excited to see the ever-expanding automotive portfolio of SiFive and look expectantly to what is to come. SiFive have made it possible to develop new hardware faster than ever before, a must in the evolving automotive market. SiFive's automotive offerings are a great fit with SAFERTOS, our safety critical RTOS. Together they make a compelling package for automotive. WHIS and SiFive look forward to a continuation of our close collaboration in the future.
About SiFive As the pioneers who introduced RISC-V to the world, SiFive is transforming the future of compute by bringing the limitless potential of RISC-V to the highest performance and most data-intensive applications in the world. SiFive’s unrivaled compute platforms have enabled leading technology companies around the world to innovate, optimize and deliver the most advanced solutions of tomorrow across every market segment of chip design, including artificial intelligence, machine learning, automotive, data center, mobile, and consumer. With SiFive, the future of RISC-V has no limits. For more information, please visit SiFive.com.
Stay current with the latest SiFive updates via Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, and YouTube.
Media Contacts
Allison DeLeo
Racepoint Global for SiFive,
SiFive@racepointglobal.com,
Tel.: +1 (415) 694-6711
David Miller,
Corporate Communications,
SiFive,
David.Miller@sifive.com
Google uses SiFive RISC-V cores in AI compute nodes
Cor, that's a shot in the arm for this upstart CPU ISA
Does anyone know how SiFive are using our technology? Any potential with this article?
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SiFive and ProvenRun Collaborate to deliver Best-in-Class Security for RISC-V Microprocessors
Paris, France, September 27, 2022 – ProvenRun, a global leader in embedded security, today announced the availability of its flagship secure OS / TEE product called ProvenCore, integrated with SiFive® WorldGuard technology, providing powerful SoC-level mechanism for software isolation.
Modern microprocessor SoCs are designed to reduce cost by housing all functionality in a single device. This race for more features, which inevitably increases the size of the code and introduces pieces of code from multiple origins, can lead to security risks when one vulnerable piece of code can affect another, intentionally or not. Add to this the significant increase in the device's interactions with the environment, which greatly increases the attack surface, and it makes sense to develop solutions that can guarantee that the failure of one part of the software does not affect the correct and complete functioning of other software running on the same platform.
SiFive is the leading provider of market-ready processor core IP based on the open RISC-V instruction set architecture. As part of their open platform secure architecture called SiFive Shield, SiFive offers the SiFive WorldGuard solution to enable Trusted Execution Environment on its RISC-V platforms. SiFive WorldGuard is a hardware-enhanced software isolation solution that provides protection against improper access to memory or devices by software applications and other initiators (such as DMAs). WorldGuard enables designers to create domains, also known as “worlds,” for isolated code execution and data protection. The isolation is based on multiple levels of privilege for each world, to offer SoC-level information control.
The WorldGuard solution provides a system-level approach to securing access to system resources (memory, peripherals) by software applications. This approach is ideal for creating a trusted environment, enabling a Trusted Computing Base (TCB) where the highest level of trust is limited to the secure ROM boot, the Machine-mode firmware, the secure applications, and the OperatingSystems (OSs) that implement them. This base of trust is also referred to as the “Trusted Agent.”
ProvenCore is a secure OS developed by ProvenRun using deductive formal method, to guarantee security properties such as integrity, confidentiality, correctness, and isolation in order to get as close as possible to zero defect, leaving almost no attack surface for hackers. ProvenCore is resilient against the most sophisticated attacks and has received a Common Criteria EAL7 certification. It is a key component for being able to develop security services with a high security assurance level in a cost-effective way. These security services include key services for establishing a Root of Trust (key management service (secure storage), cryptographic operation services, TRNG) but can also address advanced use cases such as Secure Firmware Update, Runtime Integrity Monitoring, Trusted UI, and more.
Using ProvenCore as a “trusted agent” in a WorldGuard configuration achieves best-in-class security for RISC-V architectures, for a scalable and flexible solution with a well-identified and auditable TCB that will meet all security requirements, up to the highest. The implementation of ProvenCore with SiFive WorldGuard can be done by dedicating a core for security, or by isolating two software domains using the same core. The latter is referred to as Trusted Execution Environment, where ProvenCore will coexist with a Rich environment on the same core. A secure monitor will ensure the coordination between the two environments while maintaining the isolation.
“Combining ProvenRun ProvenCore software and SiFive WorldGuard hardware is the best way to address system-level hardware and software isolation with a certifiable solution,” said Chris Jones, VP Products at SiFive.
ProvenRun also offers a variety of services to help device makers securing products for their entire life cycle: • Consulting services such as risk analysis, security architecture definition, certification support, and secure provisioning • Engineering services such as secure boot implementation and security applications development (cryptographic operation, key management, secure firmware update…)
ABOUT PROVENRUN ProvenRun’s mission is to provide customers with the Trusted Products and Services that will help them Embed Security within their infrastructure of connected devices wherever this is required, at the chip, device, edge or cloud levels. With our security consulting services and secure-by-design off-the-shelf product solutions, we resolve the security challenges arising from the IoT revolution while dramatically improving the protection against remote cyberattacks. For more information, www.provenrun.com
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