As our colleagues from the site suggest , one of the world's first SoC developers on the open RISC-V architecture, the company acquired a package of intellectual property in the form of IP blocks of USB 2.0 and USB 3.x interfaces. The deal was made with Innovative Logic, a specialist in the development of ready-to-integrate licensed blocks with interfaces. Formerly Innovative Logic already interesting offers for free trial licensing of USB 3.0 IP blocks. The deal with SiFive was the apotheosis of such experiments. Going forward, the former property of Innovative Logic will continue to live as an integral part of free and commercial platforms for designing SoCs on the RISC-V architecture. Huawei will definitely like this if it is finally with ARM and x86.
Prior to purchasing IP blocks from Innovative Logic, SiFive was forced to license blocks with USB interfaces from third-party developers, which, in particular, limited the possibilities for free licensing of platforms for developing solutions on RISC-V. Accordingly, interest in RISC-V has declined. The deal with Innovative Logic will provide the platform with the most advanced interfaces, including USB 3.x Type-C, the development of which has so far been completed by only a few companies in the world.
Together with SiFive's IP property, the Innovative Logic development staff based in Bangalore, India, will move. As part of SiFive, former Innovative Logic specialists will continue to develop IP blocks with USB interfaces. The details of the deal were not disclosed. It also does not specify for which technical processes the blocks with interfaces transferred under the contract were created. We only know that they are suitable for integration into SoCs with βimproved process technologyβ production. There is no other information.
Source: 3dnews.ru