neorv32
:rocket: A tiny, customizable and extensible MCU-class 32-bit RISC-V soft-core CPU and microcontroller-like SoC written in platform-independent VHDL. (by stnolting)
cva6
The CORE-V CVA6 is an Application class 6-stage RISC-V CPU capable of booting Linux (by openhwgroup)
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| 9.9 | 9.7 | |
| 1 day ago | 1 day ago | |
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| BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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neorv32
Posts with mentions or reviews of neorv32.
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- An example of how to add the A ISA extension's LR/SC operations into an open-source architecture
- NEORV32 - A tiny, customizable and highly extensible MCU-class 32-bit RISC-V microcontroller-like SoC written in platform-independent VHDL
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Recommendations for RISC-V on FPGA
How about NEORV32?
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SUGGEST AN OPEN SOURCE RISC-V CORE DESIGNED IN VERILOG
GitHub - stnolting/neorv32: 🖥️ A tiny, customizable and highly extensible MCU-class 32-bit RISC-V soft-core CPU and microcontroller-like SoC written in platform-independent VHDL. this one is good but is written in VHDL though
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RISCV CPU using PL on Pynq Z2 Development Board
NEORV32 is an open source soft core and very well documented. I would recommend you to take a look at it and play around a bit. And it is certainly possible to have a soft core running on only the PL side without PS interference.
- A tiny 1-Wire controller for FPGAs (in VHDL)
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Anyone want to share some embedded projects they have done?
Maybe not a classic (whatever that means...) project, but I am working (together with others) on a RISC-V microcontroller for FPGAs: https://github.com/stnolting/neorv32
cva6
Posts with mentions or reviews of cva6.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-08.
- CVA6 – an Application class 6-stage RISC-V CPU capable of booting Linux
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Recommendations for RISC-V on FPGA
Hello. I'm looking into implementing RISC-V on an FPGA for a school project. The two repos I'm looking into using are the Ariane and RocketChip repos. Both look actively maintained, but RocketChip has more recent releases, and it's used by this other repo that creates a block design in Vivado with the RISC-V RTL. However, we would also like to be able to make changes to the core, and I'm afraid that scala/Chisel might be difficult to learn. Ariane looks like SystemVerilog while RocketChip is mostly Chisel. Does any have recommendations on which RISC-V repo would be good to use for a project?
- The CORE-V CVA6 is a RISC-V CPU capable of booting Linux
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Capital required to design and manufacture smartphones/computers in US
There are 108 RISC-V cores that have been created so far (according to this list), but only a couple are 64 bit, open source and powerful enough that you would want to use them (like Shakti, CVA6 and NutShell)
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Yun, the first tape-out of CVA6 (Ariane) with Ara vector co-processor SoC manufactured
The source code of Ara as well as Ariane, also known as CVA6 is available on GitHub.
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Some data points on Vivado performance on Ryzen and Alder Lake
I made a post about this here not too long ago, but I think it would be really useful to come up with a Vivado benchmark, in the form of a standardized large and representative design. I was curious about Alder Lake performance too, and compared my new 12700K workstation against my laptop with this open source RISC-V CPU: https://github.com/openhwgroup/cva6
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What is Purism's roadmap for open-source hardware/schematics?
When the OpenHW Group was created in 2019, I had some hope that Alibaba or NXP (who are in the OpenHW Group) would release an open hardware RISC-V processor, but it looks like they are not making any public commits to the CVA6 core, so I doubt that we are ever going to see the source code of Alibaba's XT910 or NXP's Chassis RISC-V processor.
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XiangShan open-source 64-bit RISC-V processor to rival Arm Cortex-A76
Ariane is now cva6 (it moved to a industry supported non-profit).
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How many more years until we have a completely open source RISC-V SOC?
At this stage, it could make sense for e.g. universities to start developing peripherals & controllers targeted at ASIC rather than creating yet-another-core (https://riscv.org/exchange/cores-socs/ has 107 lines already for cores), leveraging an OSHW ASIC-proven core from e.g. the OpenHW group (https://github.com/openhwgroup/cva6). Manufacturing in not-so-old processes is affordable for teaching institutions (e.g. https://europractice-ic.com/ in Europe), and taping out working cores is no longer a 'new' thing (e.g. http://asic.ethz.ch/all/years.html ).
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OpenHW Group and Mitacs announce a $22.5M research program for open-source processors
Looking at the github of the openhw group looks like the license is granting patents to the project. So it looks ok.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing neorv32 and cva6 you can also consider the following projects:
VexRiscv - A FPGA friendly 32 bit RISC-V CPU implementation
cv32e40p - CV32E40P is an in-order 4-stage RISC-V RV32IMFCXpulp CPU based on RI5CY from PULP-Platform
linux-on-litex-vexriscv - Linux on LiteX-VexRiscv
litex - Build your hardware, easily!
picoMIPS - picoMIPS processor doing affine transformation
verilator - Verilator open-source SystemVerilog simulator and lint system
upduino-projects - Various VHDL projects I've worked on for the Upduino v2.0 and v3.0
riscv-cores-list - RISC-V Cores, SoC platforms and SoCs
chipyard - An Agile RISC-V SoC Design Framework with in-order cores, out-of-order cores, accelerators, and more
riscv_vhdl - Portable RISC-V System-on-Chip implementation: RTL, debugger and simulators
lxp32-cpu - A lightweight, open source and FPGA-friendly 32-bit CPU core based on an original instruction set
litedram - Small footprint and configurable DRAM core