News India continues to innovate homegrown RISC-V, launches Aries 3.0 board with an onboard Vega ET1031 CPU

[Admin]

India launches a RISC-V powered Aries v3.0 development board for roughly the equivalent of $20 USD. It's powered by a 32-bit, 100 MHz CPU with 256KB of SRAM.

India continues to innovate homegrown RISC-V, launches Aries 3.0 board with an onboard Vega ET1031 CPU : Read more

 

[brandonjclark]

This is good, and I hope India continues to innovate and forge ahead.

However, for their size, I've not seen much progress internally. And it's not just in CPU-tech.

Another example would be software coding.

Is India full of amazing coding talent? Well duh, of course it is! So then where are the major homegrown industries like 3d gaming or financial technology?

Maybe this is just my ignorance showing and there ARE really great, globally-known homegrown Indian software or technology companies which are NOT offshoots of US or Euro or China, and I welcome being schooled!

 

[bit_user]

The CPU is 32-bit and operates at up to 100 MHz, using only 256 KB of SRAM. This doesn't come close to competing with modern Raspberry Pi solutions

It's effectively a microcontroller, not a proper CPU. The Raspberry Pi it should be compared with is the Pico.

• Dual-core Arm Cortex-M0+ processor, flexible clock running up to 133 MHz
• 264kB on-chip SRAM

The Nintendo 64 launched in 1996 and came with a solid 4 MB of RAM and a clean 93.75 MHz, 64-bit CPU. In terms of overall processing power, the Vega ET1031 might be stronger than the N64.

This is nuts. No, this thing can't touch it! And not just because of the 32-bit vs. 64-bit thing, but also that the N64 had the RCP, which was a sort of GPU, featuring 128-bit SIMD.

And then there's the issue of floating point. According to this, the core only supports integer arithmetic, whereas the N64's VR4300 supported floating-point arithmetic!

Sources:

• https://github.com/ultraembedded/riscv
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_64

Wow. Even if the author didn't know this stuff, you'd think one of the editors would clue him in.