The HiFive Premier P550 is the most efficient RISC-V development board on the market, offering developers unparalleled flexibility and performance
Nuremberg, Germany, April 9, 2024—(BUSINESS WIRE)–Today at Embedded World, SiFive, Inc., a pioneer and leader in RISC-V computing, introduced its new state-of-the-art RISC-V development board, the HiFive™ Premier P550. The board will be available for wide deployment through Arrow Electronics so that developers around the world can test and develop new RISC-V applications such as machine vision, video analytics, AI PC and others, enabling them to use AI and other cutting-edge technologies in many different markets. segments.
Featuring a quad-core SiFive Performance™ P550 processor, the HiFive Premier P550 is the industry’s highest performing RISC-V development board and the latest in the popular HiFive family. Designed to meet the computing needs of modern workloads, the P550 non-functional core delivers superior compute density and performance in an energy-efficient space. Furthermore, the HiFive Premier P550’s modular design, which includes a replaceable system-on-module (SOM) board, gives developers the flexibility they need to customize their designs.
“The popularity of our development boards underscores the growth and maturity of the RISC-V ecosystem,” said Patrick Little, CEO and President of SiFive. “The HiFive board has always been the ‘gold reference’ of the 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-effective platform that will be available in volume, opening up limitless opportunities for RISC-V innovation in AI applications and beyond.”
SiFive is working with Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, to ensure that developers can run the Linux distribution smoothly on the HiFive Premier P550. Ubuntu is free to use and 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 gain access to bug fixes and security updates for 10+ years backed by Canonical’s business support.
“RISC-V gives developers a new level of freedom to innovate, and SiFive is one of the leading companies in this. The availability of the HiFive Premier P550 is a significant milestone for the RISC-V development community,” said Gordan Markuš, Director of Silicon Alliances at Canonical. “Thanks to our collaboration with SiFive, developers using the HiFive Premier P550 board will be able to rapidly innovate with Ubuntu. In addition, Canonical’s software and services will accelerate time to market and provide long-term support and security maintenance for our business partners.”
Technical features
The on-board Eswin EIC7700 SoC features a high-performance 64-bit three-issue, out-of-order, SiFive RISC-V P550 core complex configured with four P550 cores, 256 KB of L2 cache, and 4 MB of L3 cache. The SoC features a 2D/3D GPU, hardware video encoder/decoder, NPU, DSP, MIPI DSI, security subsystem, integrated high-speed DDR5 memory controller, PCI Express Gen 3 x4 root complex and standard peripherals.
Other features include:
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16 GB 64-bit LPDDR5-6400 memory, 128 GB eMMC memory for fast boot
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Fast connection with PCI Express Gen3 x4 via PCIe x16 slot
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5 USB 3.2 Gen 1 ports for peripheral connection
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Software support with Freedom U-SDK, including Linux
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Interchangeable SOM for design flexibility
SiFive’s line of development boards also includes the popular HiFive Unmatched Rev. B, which is available today. To help simplify the development process, SiFive provides comprehensive documentation, software development kits, toolchains, utilities, and software ecosystem solutions for each SiFive RISC-V development board.
The HiFive Premier P550 is expected to be available through Arrow Electronics in July 2024. Pre-orders can be placed at www.arrow.com. To learn more, visit: https://www.sifive.com/boards/hifive-premier-p550.
About SiFive
As the pioneers who introduced RISC-V to the world, SiFive is transforming the future of computing by bringing the limitless potential of RISC-V to the world’s highest-performance, data-intensive applications. SiFive’s unparalleled computing platforms have enabled leading technology companies around the world to innovate, optimize and deliver tomorrow’s most advanced solutions across all chip design market segments, including artificial intelligence, machine learning, automotive, data center, mobile and consumer. With SiFive, the future of RISC-V has no limits.
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