On Wednesday 30. November 2016 04.27.12 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
another 32-bit RISC-V embedded controller. this one's 320mhz. sadly only 48 pins on this one otherwise i'd seriously consider using it in the 15in laptop PCB2.
On the EE Times article about the Open-V, I think someone related to this was discussing collaboration with someone representing the Open-V effort. I feel a bit bad for the Open-V people now, given that this seems to be virtually ready to ship, whereas the Open-V campaign is largely concerned with fabrication and will only be delivering boards in over a year's time.
One thing I find interesting is this:
"Memory: 16 KB Instruction Cache, 16 KB Data Scratchpad"
Did I misunderstand or is the "scratchpad" effectively a data cache that is also the full extent of the available memory? In other words, there seems to not be any external memory. I guess that would make the board fit in with the Arduino-like products it is compared to, but then one could argue that "microcontroller" might be more accurate than "SoC".
Still, it looks like a promising start for a range of products.
Paul