neorv32 VS ulx3s-toolchain

Compare neorv32 vs ulx3s-toolchain and see what are their differences.

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)

ulx3s-toolchain

ULX3S FPGA, RISC-V, ESP32 toolchain installer scripts (by ulx3s)
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neorv32 ulx3s-toolchain
77 1
1,423 36
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9.9 10.0
5 days ago over 3 years ago
C Shell
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License MIT License
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neorv32

Posts with mentions or reviews of neorv32. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-08.

ulx3s-toolchain

Posts with mentions or reviews of ulx3s-toolchain. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-25.
  • Where do I start with RISC-V/
    3 projects | /r/RISCV | 25 Dec 2021
    Later on when you want some FPGA hardware a cheap open source option is the ULX3S from Radiona. That combines the Lattice ECP5 FPGA with some useful peripherals. It's used with the open source yosys and project trellis tools.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing neorv32 and ulx3s-toolchain you can also consider the following projects:

VexRiscv - A FPGA friendly 32 bit RISC-V CPU implementation

iverilog - Icarus Verilog

linux-on-litex-vexriscv - Linux on LiteX-VexRiscv

picoMIPS - picoMIPS processor doing affine transformation

upduino-projects - Various VHDL projects I've worked on for the Upduino v2.0 and v3.0

chipyard - An Agile RISC-V SoC Design Framework with in-order cores, out-of-order cores, accelerators, and more

lxp32-cpu - A lightweight, open source and FPGA-friendly 32-bit CPU core based on an original instruction set

fpga-zynq - Support for Rocket Chip on Zynq FPGAs

serv - SERV - The SErial RISC-V CPU

linux-on-litex-rocket - Run 64-bit Linux on LiteX + RocketChip

openFPGALoader - Universal utility for programming FPGA

riscv-debug-dtm - 🐛 JTAG debug transport module (DTM) - compatible to the RISC-V debug specification.