SiFive Brings in Mobiveil as Newest Partner in the DesignShare Economy

Serial interconnect IP blocks and platforms now available through DesignShare

SAN MATEO, Calif. -- March 22, 2018 -- SiFive, the leading provider of commercial RISC-V processor IP, today announced that Mobiveil, a provider of Serial Interconnect IP blocks and platforms targeted for Flash Storage, IoT and Communication markets, has joined the growing DesignShare economy.

Mobiveil will make available its high-speed, serial interconnect IP blocks such as PCI Express, RapidIO, Memory Controllers and AXI Interconnect Fabric for DesignShare users to accelerate RISC-V based SOC development.

"At Mobiveil, we're dedicated to helping customers meet their product development goals within budget and on time," said Ravi Thummarukudy, CEO, Mobiveil. "It's why DesignShare aligns with our values. We hope this partnership lowers the barriers for all system designers to bring their innovations to life."

Any company, inventor or maker can harness the power of custom silicon with little to no upfront risk through the SiFive DesignShare program. To lower the costs of bringing a chip from design to realization, DesignShare partners like Mobiveil offer pre-integrated solutions that enable users to develop their prototypes without the investment in upfront engineering costs typically required.

"The DesignShare initiative streamlines the process of IP acquisition for system designers," said Shafy Eltoukhy, VP of operations and head of DesignShare at SiFive. "Partners like Mobiveil share our passion to reduce the number of obstacles that keep customers from creating prototypes, and significantly increase the new number of silicon design starts."

Since DesignShare launched last year, the ecosystem has grown to include a wide range of IP solutions, from debug and trace technology to reconfigurable FPGA. For more information on DesignShare, visit www.sifive.com/designshare.

About SiFive

SiFive is the leading provider of market-ready processor core IP based on the free and open RISC-V instruction set architecture. Founded by RISC-V inventors Andrew Waterman, Yunsup Lee and Krste Asanovic, SiFive helps SoC designers reduce time-to-market and realize cost savings with customized, open-architecture processor cores, and democratizes access to optimized silicon by enabling system designers to build customized RISC-V based semiconductors. SiFive is located in Silicon Valley and has venture backing from Sutter Hill Ventures, Spark Capital and Osage University Partners. For more information, visit www.sifive.com.

About Mobiveil

Mobiveil is a fast-growing Technology company that specializes in silicon intellectual properties, platforms, and solutions for the Storage, IoT and Communications markets. The Mobiveil team leverages decades of experience in delivering high-quality, production-proven, high-speed serial interconnect Silicon IP cores and custom and standard form factor hardware platforms to leading customers worldwide. For the Flash Storage market, Mobiveil developed a PCI Gen4-based NVMe SSD Platform and for IoT market Mobiveil has developed an AXI based SOC platform. Mobiveil is headquartered in the Silicon Valley with engineering development centers located in Milpitas, California, Chennai, Bangalore and Hyderabad, India, and sales offices and representatives located worldwide. For more information, visit www.mobiveil.com.