 Cool. So we're the RISK 5. Hi. Hey, welcome to RISK 5. It's great to have you here again, Charbox. How are you doing? Cool. So it's nice to see people again, right? Definitely. Two years, nothing. And now we are back on the embedded world. It's great and a lot of people coming. Everyone kind of happy to come here. And great to see you again. We didn't see each other two years. Yeah. What are you holding there, Johan? That one. That is a module from RS Embedded. And it has some RISK 5 on it. A RISK 5 chip from Renaissance. So that's the RC5. It is a 32-bit RISK 5 chip, which can run an Embedded Linux, an industrial-grade Embedded Linux. You're seeing we are getting more and more general purpose with this RISK 5. We're proud happy that the core itself is from Andes Technology, a Taiwanese company making CPU IP, and now having some big Tier 1 company like Renaissance, making a chip, making it available for everyone. Pretty cool. And you see first modules already available. Doing quite well. Did the wall get bigger since two years ago? The wall? More logos? The wall keeps continuing. Look at this. Everything is continuing. More and more partners. Sync Silicon, a tactical computer, Samsung, Tiling, 10-storey and with Jim Keller. That is just exploding. Everything is getting more and more big. So from our point of view, RISK 5 is here and RISK 5 is growing and getting more and more big. What do you think? Should I introduce you first the booth or do you want to have a look around with all the people? Yeah, let's go with you. Let's go around. Cool. Then maybe we start here. There are the RISK 5 partners from Kodasip. Kodasip is also a CPU IP vendor and maybe you want to say a few words about Kodasip. Hey. At least introduce yourself. Alexey Shakin, Solutions Engineer from Kodasip Studio and we also RISK 5 and we provide the IP course and the software tools to develop the CPU course and to customize them. So all our customers get the full architectural license with the studio tools so that they can do anything starting from the off-the-shelf hardware proven CPU course. Nice. Should we go to your neighbors? Right here. Hey. What should we check out next? All right. You guys from Sinterkor already have left unfortunately. Sinterkor is also doing CPU IP pretty cool company so they have flexible CPU. You can license it and also make your own chip with it. You just see this RISK 5 environment is growing and growing and more and more vendors. The next one is Case, European company. Hey, Christian. Can you talk about cases? Yes, sure. Well, Case is a company that has a number of capabilities but what is interesting here is our group from Sweden, Geisler and we do RISK 5 IP and we do this IP not only to license it to the community but also we make with that IP our own products our own standard products and those are space grade products. So those are processes that are already flying around the world and around other planets. So that's what we do. You do space? Correct. We do space. But what chips do you have in space right now? Arm cores? Right now we have our Leon cores in space. There's different generations of Leon cores and different components that we made and also in many components that our customers made that could be FPGAs or... What's the Leon's? Leon is a spark processor. That is the generation that we have been working with before we started doing RISK 5. Which is the no-well processor. And on which planet we can find it? So we're in space on satellites? On satellites we can find it turning, revolving around other planets such as the Jupiter sometime soon around the Sun as well. So a large part of the solar system already knows our processes. Nice. What are we looking at here? We're looking at the demo. Can you come closer to the microphone? Yeah, we're looking at a demo where we implement a dual core system on Xilinx FPGA. On top of that we run the Fentus Extratum Hypervisor. That spans a couple of different partitions with different criticality. So we have really... We implement actually sort of a demonstration of a spacecraft system with different tasks that all can run on one high performance onboard computer. Nice. Cool. Thanks a lot. Thank you. Great. Let's have a look to the next guys. Green Waves, a European company. They are unfortunately not here in the moment but they have pretty innovative things. They are making a processor. It's called the Gap9 that is this small thing. This small silver thing. And what Gap9 does, it has a lot of risk processes inside. So there are many cores. So there is an audio subsystem inside. And this Gap9 is really low power audio. And then some sample products is for example this. It's a people counter, an infrared people counter. You mount it on the wall. You only need to have power. All the processing is inside. So no data is going out. It only sends out 10 people in the room, 5 people in the room, all based on super low power risk 5 with a battery powered inside. And the interesting thing is it's very anonymous. So you don't have any data problems and it's all produced in Europe. The guys from GreenWaves have already a lot of products with risk 5 and they keep growing it. So that is really some innovative company based in French with the headquarter. Definitely check it out. Cool. Let's have a look to the next booth. The next booth is the Open Hardware Group which is helping to promote the risk 5 architecture. And I would like to hand over to Rick O'Connor. Rick, do you have a moment for Starbucks? Hi. You almost have time. Hello. Tell us what you're doing with Open Hardware Group, man. Well, it's super exciting, right? Open Hardware Group is an organization that is made up of 88 members and partners across the industry developing open source risk 5 implementations. So we have 11 different risk 5 cores in the roadmap. This week we announced a development kit, the Core 5 MCU development kit, and the hardware emulation on an FPGA board right now. But it's being taped up in Global Foundry's 22FDX. Will be available on a evaluation board later in the year for edge connected IoT devices that have low power but high compute requirement. So next to the actual core is an embedded FPGA array where you can integrate all kinds of different accelerators for AI and ML right next to the core. And it's all built with Global Foundry's 22FDX. Did you say 25? 22FDX. 22 chips. How many chips designs you have lined up? There's 11 cores currently under development in the roadmap and the Core 5 open source cores. That's a lot of different designs. That's very true. For all kinds of performance? All kinds of performance from two stage deep pipeline, deeply embedded class cores to application class, 64-bit SMP coherent clusters. So what's possible to do with RISC 5? What's the limit? How small can you go? How big can you go? It's limitless. I mean, the tiniest instruction set, the integer instruction set, it's only 49 instructions. So you're going to have the tiniest core that you can imagine. Smaller than the Cortex M0 Plus? Absolutely. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Small one? Yes. Great up to out of order, multi-issue, super-scaler machines, if that's what you want to go try to build. Like Intel Xeon? If that's what you have the capability and architectural knowledge on how to build. That's so easy to design, right? Well, no, I mean, it's not just the ISA. Having the ISA available is one thing. You need to be skilled in the art of microprocessor architecture to build a machine like that. So do you have a lot of skilled people in the industry joining the RISC 5 and your company and everything? So this is a non-profit ecosystem. Yes, it's a company, but it's a non-profit ecosystem. We have 88 members and partners at the table. I guess those are the short answers. Yeah, lots of very skilled people in the art, but a very vibrant ecosystem of many members collaborating. Some very big company, like, is Intel involved also in this part? In open hardware, we have companies like Alibaba, NXP, Silicon Labs, Talus, Siemens, many large corporations. Intel is not at the moment a member, but obviously everybody is welcome to play. All right. So is it a good show to meet people? Is it interesting to see people again? It's obviously great to be out amongst the community talking to people. Nice. And what's the biggest secret, the stuff that's happening in the future? Or is everything happening open and everybody knows the roadmap of what's happening? Well, for our organization, everything's in the public domain. So by definition, we have no secrets. That's the true nature of open source collaboration. Cool. All right. So how soon do we see all these 11 designs in actual products? Well, the first ones are starting to emerge now and the cores that have been frozen and RTL freeze, what we call it, and ready for production, have been completed now for about a year and they're in products now. The challenge is they're used as deeply embedded cores within an SoC. No API exposed to the users so nobody knows that they're in there. But any modern SoC today has many, many cores that are just firmware, if you will, embedded in the SoC. So they're in production. But did you say this was running on the FPGA? This is running on an FPGA emulation platform. So how soon until the chips? The first chip from the OpenTar where Ecosystem is later this year built in 22FDX. Cool. All right. Awesome. And do you go all the way down to like 5nm, everything? Well, we only have access to whatever our FAB partners want to expose, but so right now with Global we'll build in 22 and 12LP. But I'm sure we'll be sub 10nm with somebody at some point. Is TSMC doing RISC-5 stuff? All the foundries are. All the foundries are? Of course. They're all lined up. All right. Cool. Thanks a lot. You're welcome. All right. So what do you do next? All right. Have a look to the next one. Venta Micro, an interesting company. What they are making, say, are bringing RISC-5 on chiplets. So the guys are unfortunately not here, but the idea is to design a RISC-5, put it on a chiplet, and then sell you the chiplet. So you need a chip. You make a chip. You make your analog. Something, you take the chiplet. Verified RISC-5. You put it with your chiplet. Put it together, and you have a working chip. And chiplets is a big thing in the future. So that is really an interesting approach, a new startup, and that's possible by RISC-5. How many companies are there in the better world of doing RISC-5 stuff? Man, it's really hard to count. I would say there is at least 10, 15 percent doing RISC-5 and a lot of people looking into RISC-5. You have been asking before if Intel is also inside. Yes, Intel put a $1 billion fund for RISC-5 on the edge. They are investing heavily in Spain for a lot of research, but they are also building up the Foundry Service. So Intel has partnered, for example, with Endis Technology, but also with Sci-5. And if you want to get your chip done by Intel in the Intel Foundry System and you say, I need a CPU, they say you can have RISC-5 and we have someone from Sci-5 or from Endis available. So Intel, I think, is also joining this trend and it's also going very strong because $1 billion is a lot of money to me. Yes, it's a lot of innovation that can be funded there. And how about all the stuff people come for here at the booth? What are they asking for? They're like getting stamps on these and what does that do? So we have the stamps, you go around, you get a stamp from every of the partner companies being here. Here at Endis called a Sci-5 and then you can win a deaf board. So we have deaf boards. That is from our partner, VDH. It's a Chinese company and they make a lot of interesting microcontroller where you have USB to UART but you also have the USB to microcontroller. So you plug it to an Ethernet or something, you have USB-C for programming or also for output and that's our giveaway. So they also have RISC-5 inside, of course. And that's where the people come. They get the stamps, they learn about RISC-5, they see the ecosystem, how good it is, how big it is and then they have the chance to win the deaf board. Nice. And we just did half on the booth so far. We only did half. Let's go to the next one. Maybe you hear about the guys Ubuntu. Please tell us what you're doing with RISC-5. Yeah, my name is Daniel Schuchat. I'm working for Canonical. That's a company behind the Ubuntu Linux distribution. We have supported since last year running the desktop with GNOME or KDE on RISC-5 and currently we are looking into our IoT business. We can now build SNAPS on RISC-5 and SNAPS is what is used for Ubuntu Core which is our offering for having an operating system in the IoT world. And next thing is also getting many more boards being supported inside the RISC-5 ecosystem like the Vision 5 or the NASA board and we plan to offer images within the next two months. How good is Ubuntu support on RISC-5? Yeah, for X86 you'll find something like 67,000 packages. There are 63,000 already available for RISC-5. And how many on ARM? A few more? A few more. So ARM is just in the middle between X86 and RISC-5, yes. All right, cool. And you're the best Linux distribution on RISC-5. We are the one who are really officially supporting RISC-5. For some other distribution just have some downloads that you can get from a developer and not an official distribution. Cool, all right. Thanks a lot. Hey, Jörg-Bachs, one thing. Have you been talking about the Vision 5? That is a board that's like a Raspberry Pi and you can have it today with a RISC-5 on it. That's amazing. Operating system Linux. Of course, the Ubuntu from Kennekel, controlling a robot ARM. So we are really here for industrial use. Let's have a look to the next guy. The next guy are from Digital Core. Digital Core is doing some great stuff for their software. Hey gentlemen, can you tell Jörg-Bachs what you're doing? Yeah. We are basically a design services company from India doing electronic product design services. And this is the first RISC-5 application core on IC which we have developed a system on module using this IC. The first of its kind. And we have also developed a use case, a thermal imaging core using this chip and the system on module which is displayed here. All right. We already did the video yesterday and people can check it out too. Show you the busiest corner of the booth. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Glad to be there. All right. Cool. Okay, thanks. Thank you. So you see design systems, everything is very important but there are, like I said, more companies doing RISC-5. Meet Andy from Sci-5. Andy, let us know what you're doing for RISC-5. Hey Andy, what's up? RISC-5 is changing the world as everybody knows. Everyone loves open source. Everyone loves RISC-5. So we have a fantastic portfolio of products. We're an IP licensing company. Everyone behind you is making fun of me now. It's great. So what do you want to know? Ask me some questions. What's up? Nice to see you after a couple years of hiatus. It's really good to be back in the embedded world actually. The embedded world show is our favorite show on the planet, right? Can you describe a little bit of Sci-5? It's actually bigger and bigger company. How many people in Sci-5? So Sci-5 is about 600 people at the moment. We're recruiting. We're just about to open headquarters in Cambridge in the UK. We're massively investing in Cambridge in the UK. We're also investing in San Mateo in the valley. So we're trying to recruit engineers who are looking to change the world with RISC-5 along with us. We have some really cool new technology. We're one of the first to go to market with RISC-5 Vectors, the ratified version 1.0. And we have a product that is literally flying off the shelves. People can't get enough of it. And we did a new release of that this week. So we've extended its capabilities. We've added World Guard security. Check it out. Is it that board? So now this is actually one of our reference platforms. These are very rare at the moment. They're very hard to get hold of. But we're working with Intel on releasing a new board later this year. It's going to be based on our P550 device. So this is what people in the ecosystem have been using for a number of years now as part of their Linux porting efforts and other open source software that we all love from the Linux foundation, etc. Are you working with the developers, the community? What's your role? My role is outbound marketing. So I've been doing lots of material on what RISC-5 Vectors mean for the industry. And we've actually just created a dedicated page on our website under the technology section where we've got blogs and articles which describe how RISC-5 Vectors are going to change the world and kind of highlight some of our market leadership on RISC-5 Vectors. So that's a really good resource to go and have a look at actually. Nice. Is there like stage and a whole day there's been presentations around here? So yeah, we've been doing rolling presentations all for the three days. So there's been all of the people attending the RISC-5 pavilion. We've been doing talks all week. So I think they've actually recorded them all so they will be available on the RISC-5 international website, RISC-5.org, and sometime soon. So you'll be able to catch up on them also. Nice. Cool. Thanks a lot. See you next time. So Sci-Fi is a big company. I'll show you some secret. A lot of people. Have a look around here. We have Danny, he's the leader of RANDS, Sci-Fi. He's a super-secret guy. And we also have Drew here who is working on the software. So you see Sci-Fi as a big team. He's doing a lot of stuff. Sorry, Hardware. He's the best guy in Hardware at Sci-Fi. Let's have a look on the next one. That is Coldplay. Coldplay is one of the partners enabling softwares. Charles, what are you doing guys? So we're Coldplay. We're a Scottish company. We're based out of Edinburgh. We're sub-100 people, but we work on software very much opening up the ecosystem. We work with open standards software. So we try and avoid lock-in software, proprietary software that locks you into one specific supplier, just like what we have here is CUDA, which locks you into NVIDIA. And we accept just about all AI is start-off as development within NVIDIA environment. So what we do is we say, you've got to go open standards. That's the only way to get wider adoption, get different processes out there. And so using an open standard is this thing called SICL. SICL is an open standard done by the same body as they do open CL and open GL. So SICL is very close to CUDA, it's a C++ language, and you can get conversion tools that take you from CUDA straight across into SICL. And then once you're in SICL, that opens up all the platforms available to you. And using that, we've actually put SICL, the open standard, made that work back onto NVIDIA, but also it'll work onto Intel and to AMD. It'll work on imagination, arm, renaissance. And more importantly here, we've got it working with the RISC-5 vector extension. So the chip companies will do a chip using the RISC-5 vector extension and then they will have immediate access to the whole ecosystem that NVIDIA has managed to hold onto itself. So it opens up a great ecosystem for customers to get straight in there. Cool, thanks a lot. Alright, good meeting. Alright. You're seeing that's all about the ecosystem, Charbox. We need to have the hardware, we need to have the software operating system and we need to have a simulation to test it and bring it inside. Imperos, what are you doing with RISC-5? Hi. Hi. So please introduce yourself. My name is Larry Lapidus and I am with Imperos Software. Imperos Software builds models of the RISC-5 processors. We build models that are functionally or instruction accurate and we support the full RISC-5 specification including all the processor IP vendors including people that are building their own RISC-5. And then with these models, our users use them as a reference model for design verification and then use the models for software development even before silicon is available. Cool. Awesome. Is it a good show for you? It's been a very good show for us. We like this show a lot because there's a lot of different activity here, different users especially on the system side. This is an embedded conference and our users that are developing software for RISC-5 or for other processor architectures. That's why they come here and we can help them. Cool. Awesome. That was a nice tour. So you're seeing the RISC-5 is growing. Not all of the vendors are here. We're coming actually back to Andes, but I think it would be cool maybe to walk inside. You see all the logos here? Actually, I have one comment that says RISC-5 rocks. Expressive systems hold 3A booths, 1, 2, 5 announces a RISC-5. Yes. Where are they? We are super proud. Oh, where is the logo from Expressive? That's a good question to find them. I'll try to catch them just after this tour. You should catch them. Come to me. Here's the logo. Expressive people are here. This is Expressive. They do chips. You can make your Wi-Fi. It's super easy out of the box. You have been asking for Intel. We have Intel here as a premium partner. Premium partner. That means Intel is really going big on RISC-5. You see this premium partners here. Western Digital, Intel, Alibaba Pro, 4Way, Futureway. That is a lot of people really investing and putting a lot of resources into RISC-5. What do you think about the Jarbox? What do you think compared to two years ago? What is your feeling about RISC-5? Can you interview a lot of people? Do you see it's taking over the world? It's very interesting to see so much activity and such a cool action-packed presentation. It's definitely. We love it. We're going all big on RISC-5. And next year when you come, we will have an even bigger boost and you should come more early because we have so much to show in one year more. It's amazing how the ecosystem is exploding. Cool. Awesome. Cool. All right. Thanks a lot. Thanks, man.