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[dupe] ONiO.zero offers a RISC-V Microcontroller that runs without battery (cnx-software.com)
19 points by jacobr on Jan 8, 2020 | hide | past | favorite | 7 comments



was recently posted. no datasheet available, just a generic website with a lot of unsubstantiated promises and an email harvester. basically marketing spam until some actual data is available.


Is this similar to a passive[1] NFC device?

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-field_communication#Desig...


"... and ever-growing RISC-V instruction set."

RISC: "Reduced instruction set computer"

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The article is probably describing RISC-V as growing in popularity, not number of instructions.

The distinction between "reduced" (RISC) and "complex" (CISC) is more philosophical than "number of instructions."

Even as the RISC-V specification gains new instructions, the modular design of the architecture is specifically designed to allow implementations to pare down to just the subset they need.


RISC-V is extensible and keeps developing new official extensions that add more and more instructions. The RISC-V baseline doesn't even have integer multiply or divide!


My thoughts exactly!




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