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March 05, 2024
« Configurator » permet au client de spécifier exactement ce qu’il veut pour son nouveau cœur RISC-V.

La société espagnole Semidynamics, spécialiste des cœurs de processeurs RISC-V personnalisés, a lancé « Configurator » son nouvel outil qui permet au client de personnaliser intégralement un cœur de processeur RISC-V. Cet outil utilise des dizaines de blocs validés par Semidynamics, de sorte que le cœur final est vérifié.  Ainsi, le client obtient en quelques heures, un noyau utilisable parmi les milliers de variantes possibles.

March 05, 2024
Semidynamics puts the power of full core customisation into hands of customers

Semidynamics, the European RISC-V custom core specialist, has released its new tool called ‘Configurator’ that puts the power of Semidynamics’ full customisation of a RISC-V processor core in the hands of the customer. It uses dozens of blocks that have already been verified by Semidynamics so that the final core is therefore also verified. This gives customers an incredible fast time to a workable core design in a matter of a few hours from the thousands of possible variants.

March 05, 2024
Semidynamics Unveils Revolutionary Configurator Tool for Custom RISC-V Cores Design in Spain

In an innovative leap forward, Semidynamics in Spain has launched a groundbreaking Configurator tool that revolutionizes the way developers design RISC-V cores. This web-based tool, a first in offering full customization of RISC-V IP cores, allows for intricate core design configuration via a user-friendly interface, promising a new era of microprocessor development.

November 30, 2023
RISC-V Summit Buzz – Semidynamics Founder and CEO Roger Espasa Introduces Extreme Customization

Founded in 2016 and based in Barcelona, Spain, Semidynamics™ is the only provider of fully customizable RISC-V processor IP.  The company delivers high bandwidth, high performance cores with vector units and tensor units targeted at machine learning and AI applications. There were some recent announcements from Semidynamics leading up to the RISC-V Summit that extend the company’s focus on customization. I had a chance to meet with the company’s CEO at the Summit to get the back-story on what the announcement really means. Read on to get the whole story about how Semidynamics founder and CEO, Roger Espasa, introduces extreme customization.

November 16, 2023
Semidynamics and Arteris Combine to Push AI and RISC-V Beyond

Arteris, Inc. and Semidynamics are collaborating to enhance the next generation of electronic components for artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and high-performance computing (HPC) applications. The agreement sees the interoperability between Semidynamics' Atrevido and Avispado 64-bit RISC-V processor IP cores and Arteris’ Ncore cache coherent network-on-chip (NoC) system IP.

November 10, 2023
EPI announces the successful bring-up of the EPAC1.5 acceleration chip

The European Processor Initiative (EPI), a project with 30 partners from 10 European countries, with the goal of achieving Europe’s independence in HPC chip technologies and infrastructure, has announced the successful Manufacturing and Silicon Demonstration of its EPAC Accelerator chip version 1.5.

November 08, 2023
RISC-V Summit 2023: Embedded Editor Report

Also today, Semidynamics announced the launch of its first fully-coherent RISC-V Tensor unit that the company says will not only reduce latency, processor cycles and energy use, it will also, when married to the Vector regulators, solve the memory wall problem. Roger Espasa, CEO & Founder at Semidynamics Technology Services, said the full system is designed to be ideal for AI and machine learning embedded systems, thanks to the new Tensor unit, and the company’s customizable 64-bit cores, married to the vector regulators, Gazzillion data management software, and the unique architecture that brings all these units together in one piece.

November 07, 2023
Semidynamics Releases RISC-V Tensor Unit for AI

Collaboration with Signature IP yields multicore environment and CHI interconnect customizable for performance and optimizable for efficiency.
Customizability and scalability are among the most common requirements of artificial intelligence and machine learning applications. AI and ML regularly involve complex algorithms and require specialized hardware and software optimizations that promote high performance and efficiency.

November 07, 2023
[CN] Semidynamics and Arteris collaborate to accelerate AI RISC-V system-on-chip development

California, Campbell - November 2, 2023 - Arteris, Inc. (NASDAQ: AIP) is a leading system IP provider dedicated to accelerating the creation of System-on-Chips (SoCs). Semidynamics is a fully customizable high-bandwidth and high-performance RISC-V processor IP provider. Arteris and Semidynamics announced today the establishment of a partnership to accelerate electronic product innovation for Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and High-Performance Computing (HPC) applications.
This partnership supports the interoperability between Semidynamics' Atrevido™ and Avispado™ 64-bit RISC-V processor IP cores and Arteris' Ncore high-speed Cache Coherent Network-on-Chip (NoC) system IP. This combined solution offers interoperability to expedite the development of AI/ML and HPC designs.

November 07, 2023
[CN] Semidynamics and Arteris collaborate to accelerate AI RISC-V System-on-Chip development.

Arteris, Inc. (NASDAQ: AIP) is a leading system IP provider dedicated to accelerating the creation of System-on-Chips (SoCs). Semidynamics is a fully customizable high-bandwidth and high-performance RISC-V processor IP provider. Arteris and Semidynamics announced today the establishment of a partnership to accelerate electronic product innovation for Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and High-Performance Computing (HPC) applications.

November 06, 2023
Arteris and Semidynamics hook up to accelerate SoC design

Arteris, a provider of system IP which accelerates SoC design, and Semidynamics, a provider of fully customisable high bandwidth and high-performance RISC-V processor IP, have partnered to accelerate electronic product innovation for AI, ML and HPC applications.
The partnership supports the interoperability between Semidynamics’ Atrevido and Avispado 64-bit RISC-V processor IP cores and Arteris’ Ncore cache coherent network-on-chip (NoC) system IP.

October 27, 2023
RISC-V Tensor Unit Enables Energy Efficient AI Processing

Intended for use in ultra-fast artificial intelligence (AI) implementations, a RISC-V Tensor Unit has just been introduced by Semidynamics.
Relying on the company’s configurable 64-bit cores, this presents customers with hardware that is highly optimised to meet the requirements of matrix multiplication workloads. The result is a solution that can handle intense computation demands while still keeping the power budget involved to a minimum. 

October 25, 2023
The Tensor Unit Enhances AI Performance And Efficiency

Semidynamics has launched the RISC-V Tensor Unit designed for high-speed AI applications, leveraging its adaptable 64-bit cores. Modern machine learning models, like LLaMa-2 or ChatGPT, boast billions of parameters and necessitate computational capabilities to tune several trillion operations every second. Balancing this immense processing demand with energy efficiency is a formidable task in hardware engineering. 

October 25, 2023
[FR] Semidynamics et SignatureIP veulent faciliter la conception de puces RISC-V multicœurs grâce à l’intégration d’un "réseau sur puce"

Il existe aujourd’hui une demande croissante pour des puces toujours plus puissantes pour des applications avancées telles que l'intelligence artificielle (IA) et l’apprentissage automatique (ML), technologies qui nécessitent souvent plusieurs cœurs sur une seule puce. Pour faciliter cette évolution en particulier pour des puces RISC-V multicœurs, les sociétés Semidynamics et SignatureIP se sont associées pour intégrer leurs IP respectives afin de fournir un environnement multicœur RISC-V entièrement testé, ainsi qu’une interconnexion CHI (Coherent Hub Interface) pour la conceptions de puces complexes.

October 24, 2023
Semidynamics launches first fully-coherent RISC-V Tensor unit to supercharge AI applications

Optimised for its 64-bit fully customisable RISC-V cores.
Semidynamics has just announced a RISC-V Tensor Unit that is designed for ultra-fast AI solutions and is based on its fully customisable 64-bit cores.

October 24, 2023
RISC-V Tensor Unit claims to turbocharge AI applications

A new RISC-V Tensor Unit, based on fully customizable 64-bit cores, claims to provide a huge performance boost for artificial intelligence (AI) applications compared to just running software on scalar processors. The Tensor Unit provides matrix multiplications required by AI applications via a hardware design that delivers massive compute performance while keeping energy consumption low.

October 24, 2023
[SE] Spansk Risc V-baserad AI-IP

Semidynamics i Barcelona lanserar en neuronkärna baserad på den fria arkitekturen Risc V. Samtidigt presenterar företaget en processorarkitektur för artificiella neuronnät.
Neuronkärnan (omväxlande kallad NPU och TPU, tensorenhet) är inte Semidynamics första Risc V-baserade kärna. Företaget har sedan tidigare en VPU (Vector Processing Unit) och två 64-bitars CPU:er – allt baserat på Risc V.

October 10, 2023
Semidynamics and Signature IP Expand Multi-Core RISC-V and CHI Options

Two relatively new players in the CPU world, Semidynamics and Signature IP, have announced multi-core RISC-V and CHI interconnect IP for compute-intensive applications like AI/ML.
As some experts predict the end of Moore’s law, the artificial intelligence and machine learning (AL/ML) industry needs to find ways to greatly increase computing power density and efficiency. Such gains call for monolithic multi-core and chiplet architectures and improved interconnects.

October 08, 2023
Fully-Tested Multi-Core Environment for Development of RISC-V Based Chips

Semidynamics has collaborated with Californian start-up SignatureIP on the creation of a fully-tested interoperable RISC-V, multi-core environment plus CHI interconnect.
It draws on the companies’ respective customisable 64-bit RISC-V processing IP and Coherent NoC IP elements. Consequently, this will be able to help speed-up and de-risk next generation chip design projects - so that demanding artificial intelligence (AI) workloads can be dealt with. SignatureIP’s Coherent NoC IP delivers strong performance alongside inherent scalability. It supports a transport layer for chiplet communication. Semidynamics’ multi-core architecture provides an easily configurable platform for designers to work with.  

October 04, 2023
RISC-V Environment and CHI Interconnect for AI and ML Applications

Semidynamics and SignatureIP are collaborating to incorporate respected technologies for a completely assessed multi-core RISC-V environment and CHI interconnect for innovations in chip development for AI and ML applications. The solution utilizes SignatureIP’s Coherent NoC, designed to be scalable with the inclusion of a transport layer for chiplet communication and acts as an ordered file system with support for home-node resource group.

October 03, 2023
Partnership creates RISC-V multi-core environment

There is an ever-increasing demand for more powerful chip designs for advanced applications, such as AI and ML, that require many cores on one chip and RISC-V technology is particularly suitable for such requirements.
To facilitate this, Semidynamics and SignatureIP have partnered to integrate their respective IPs to provide a fully-tested RISC-V, multi-core environment and CHI interconnect for the development of state-of-the-art chip designs.

June 05, 2023
Unidade vectorial RISC-V recently revealed pode ser usada para aplicaciones de IA, HPC e GPU

A semi-dynamic tem introduzido uma das primarsa unidades vetoriais RISC-V do Setor que pode ser usada para procesadores highly paralelos, Como os usados para intelligencia artificial (IA), computação de alto perfomance (HPC) e even mesmo processing graphic, se equipado com IP appropriate para fins especiales . O announcement marca um marco importante no desenvolvimento do ecossistema RISC-V.

June 05, 2023
Customisable RISC-V Vector Unit is largest available, says Semidynamics

At up to 2048bits of computation per cycle, Semidynamics says that its customisable Vector Unit is the largest available in the RISC-V market today, offering “unprecedented data handling”.
At the RISC-V Summit Europe 2023 (05 to 09 June) in Barcelona, Semidynamics highlights the customisable vector unit to accompany the company’s customisable 64-bit RISC-V cores. The Vector Unit complies with the RISC-V Vector Specification 1.0 and has additional, customisable features to enhance data handling capabilities. Semidynamics claimed that together they “set a new standard for data handling both in terms of unprecedented speed and volume”.

June 03, 2023
Semidynamics announces largest, fully customisable Vector Unit in the RISC-V market, delivering up to 2048b of computation per cycle

Semidynamics has equipped its Vector Unit with a high-performance, cross-vector-core network that provides all-to-all connectivity between the vector cores at high bandwidth, even for the very large, 32-vector core option. The cross-vector-core unit is used for specific instructions in the RISC-V standard that shuffle data between the different vector cores, such as vrgather, vslide, etc.

June 02, 2023
RISC-V Summit: Customisable vector unit

Vector unit are composed of several vector cores that perform multiple calculations in parallel.
In this case, Semidynamics’ vector core can be tailored to support FP64, FP32, FP16, BF16, INT64, INT32, INT16 or INT8 data types depending on requirements – the longest word-length implemented defines the vector core width (‘ELEN’).

June 01, 2023
Semidynamics launches configurable RISC-V vector unit

Semidynamics in Spain has developed a highly configurable out of order vector unit with a new architecture to boost performance of RISC-V processor designs, and is running a demonstration of Doom.
The Vector Unit pairs with Semidynamics’ 64bit Out-Of-Order RISC-V Atrevido core and upcoming In-Order cores. “We are launching the configurable core with the vector unit support,” Roger Esposa, CEO of SemiDynamics tells eeNews Europe.

June 01, 2023
Semidynamics announces largest, fully customisable Vector Unit in the RISC-V market, delivering up to 2048b of computation per cycle for unprecedented data handling

Semidynamics has announced its new, entirely customisable Vector Unit to go with its innovative range of fully customisable 64-bit RISC-V cores. The Vector Unit is totally compliant with the RISC-V Vector Specification 1.0 with many, additional, customisable features to provide enhanced data handling capabilities. Together they set a new standard for data handling both in terms of unprecedented speed and volume.

September 21, 2021
This is EPAC, the first European CPU that will not compete with Intel or AMD?

The EPI was founded by the European Union with the aim of giving the different countries of the old continent total independence of high-performance computing technology from the United States and the great Asian powers. The geopolitical objective is nothing more than to have technological neutrality in a market that is moving to form two large blocks that in the end will end up giving companies to choose between one block or another.

September 21, 2021
El primer chip RISC-V europeo cobra vida: EPAC está destinado a supercomputadoras, pero esto es solo el principio

Ya tenemos un chip europeo que ha mostrado en pantalla el célebre "Hello World". Se trata de EPAC (European Processor ACcelerator), un chip con arquitectura RISC-V que ha pasado las primeras pruebas de validación y que está orientado a ser usado en el ámbito de la supercomputación.

September 21, 2021
European supercomputing hardware takes the first step! The high-performance computing RISC-V has been taped out, and the sample test "Hello World" is successfully displayed!

In 2018, Europe launched the European Processor Initiative (EPI), which aims to increase the independence of the European supercomputing industry from foreign technology companies. Its core is the use of free and open source RISC-V instruction set architecture for the development and production of high-performance chips in Europe, providing the European Union with independence in the field of high-performance computing (HPC).