mini-rv32ima VS ZPUFlex

Compare mini-rv32ima vs ZPUFlex and see what are their differences.

mini-rv32ima

A tiny C header-only risc-v emulator. (by cnlohr)

ZPUFlex

A highly-configurable and compact variant of the ZPU processor core (by robinsonb5)
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mini-rv32ima ZPUFlex
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1,498 34
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6.6 10.0
17 days ago over 8 years ago
C VHDL
MIT License -
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mini-rv32ima

Posts with mentions or reviews of mini-rv32ima. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-01.

ZPUFlex

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  • Zylin ZPU: The worlds smallest 32 bit CPU with GCC toolchain
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Apr 2023
    For me the most interesting thing about ZPU is that its instructions are only a single byte each, which means that while the CPU is much smaller than most RISC-V implementations, the code density is significantly better than RV32 code. (Compressed RISC-V code can beat ZPU, but adding the compressed instruction set to a RISC-V core increases its size quite a bit.)

    I did play with the ZPU quite a bit 8 or 9 years ago, and forked the ZPU Small variant to create ZPUFlex [0]. I borrowed a number of ideas from ZPU when I created my own CPU Project, EightThirtyTwo [1], some years later.

    [0] https://github.com/robinsonb5/ZPUFlex

What are some alternatives?

When comparing mini-rv32ima and ZPUFlex you can also consider the following projects:

8086tiny - 8086tiny interpreter by Adrian Cable, taken from http://www.megalith.co.uk/8086tiny/

minimax - Minimax: a Compressed-First, Microcoded RISC-V CPU

zpu - The Zylin ZPU

Ripes - A graphical processor simulator and assembly editor for the RISC-V ISA

EightThirtyTwo - An experimental CPU core with 8-bit instruction words and 32-bit registers

whisper

pinwheel - A tiny RISC-V processor for hard-real-time FPGA-based applications.

zpugcc

riscv-vm - A Small RISC-V Virtual Machine