Dialog Semiconductor is the preferred power management Partner for the SiFive RISC-V development platform

     Dialog Semiconductor, a leading provider of battery and power management, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) and industrial edge computing solutions, announced a new partnership with SiFive, Inc., an industry-leading provider of RISC-V processors and silicon solutions. Dialog will be the preferred power management solution partner for the SiFive HiFive Unmatched platform. HiFive Unmatched is a PC-level RISC-V Linux development platform based on the SiFive Freedom U740 RISC-V SoC.

     The new HiFive Unmatched platform features Dialog's highly integrated System Power Management chip (PMIC) DA9063, which integrates a 6-way DC-DC step-down regulator and an 11-way LDO low-differential linear regulator. The DA9063 helps the SiFive platform achieve optimal performance by optimally meeting all power requirements of the system. At the same time, the DA9063 supports dynamic voltage regulation (DVS), which significantly reduces the platform's power loss and improves the platform's thermal performance.

     Tom Sandoval, Senior vice President, Automotive Business Unit, Dialog Semiconductor, said: "Our collaboration with SiFive brings a low-cost and low-energy R&D platform to SiFive's customers and ecosystem partners. The SiFive Unmatched platform is a great example of the low power consumption and high performance of our DA9063 product."

     Chris Jones, Vice President of Product at SiFive, Inc., said, "RISC-V's user requirements vary from an entry-level development platform to a high-end development platform based on multi-core SoCs with advanced power management features to meet the needs of different software development and IP evaluation needs. We are fortunate to have the support of Dialog's adjustable Power solution, Dialog's highly integrated PMIC solution enables SiFive to reduce the number of power management ics required and can use the same PMIC across all SiFive development platforms, significantly reducing our engineering effort. All while achieving better performance, lower cost and smaller PCB sizes."

     The highly flexible and adjustable DA9063 system PMIC incorporates a configurable engine designed to help system design engineers easily solve power timing, heat dissipation, system control and other challenges faced in system design. Dialog also offers an intuitive graphical user interface GUI (Smart Canvas) that simplifies the design process for a "perfectly matched" power management solution. The result is a power management solution that is highly optimized, cost optimal, competitive and differentiated system design.