rocket-chip
Rocket Chip Generator (by chipsalliance)
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)
| rocket-chip | neorv32 | |
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| 12 | 77 | |
| 3,011 | 1,423 | |
| 1.0% | - | |
| 7.8 | 9.9 | |
| 6 days ago | 7 days ago | |
| Scala | C | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
rocket-chip
Posts with mentions or reviews of rocket-chip.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-08.
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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?
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RISC-V Pushes into the Mainstream
You could do a trial build of an in-order Rocket RISC-V core [1] to see how much space it takes up.
[1] https://github.com/chipsalliance/rocket-chip
- Can anyone explain simply how OpenSource the RISC-V actually is?
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Stages of prototyping a RISC-V processor on an FPGA?
My definition of a RISC CPU is one that has a reduced instruction set. In other words, the category of CPU is defined by the size of the instruction set, not in how it is implemented. Consider for example RISC-V CPUs. These are defined by their open instruction set alone, in spite of the fact that many implementations of RISC-V CPUs exist: some pipelined, and some not.
- FPGA for RISC-V Processor
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How are modern processors and their architecture designed?
More complex CPUs are typically completely out of scope for hand coding, therefore you can implement generators like: https://github.com/chipsalliance/rocket-chip
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Anandtech: "IBM Power10 Coming To Market: E1080 for 'Frictionless Hybrid Cloud Experiences'"
We don't have Sifive's specifically but we do have the open source cores they've historically used to design their cores: https://github.com/riscv-boom/riscv-boom https://github.com/chipsalliance/rocket-chip
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Project ideas for RISC-V?
This would allow you to experiment with your own chip or something like [the RocketChip generator](https://github.com/chipsalliance/rocket-chip).
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Question: Does the 32bit version of Rocket still supports FPU
https://github.com/chipsalliance/rocket-chip/blob/c7da610430f51b02ebda37f3d444674dc8f2adbf/src/main/scala/system/Configs.scala#L28
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The First Affordable RISC-V Computer Designed to Run Linux
I don't know about the u74 specifically, but sifive does seem to invest in a open source risc-v core called rocket-chip.
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.
- 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
What are some alternatives?
When comparing rocket-chip and neorv32 you can also consider the following projects:
riscv-boom - SonicBOOM: The Berkeley Out-of-Order Machine
VexRiscv - A FPGA friendly 32 bit RISC-V CPU implementation
chipyard - An Agile RISC-V SoC Design Framework with in-order cores, out-of-order cores, accelerators, and more
linux-on-litex-vexriscv - Linux on LiteX-VexRiscv
openlane - OpenLane is an automated RTL to GDSII flow based on several components including OpenROAD, Yosys, Magic, Netgen and custom methodology scripts for design exploration and optimization.
picoMIPS - picoMIPS processor doing affine transformation
picorv32 - PicoRV32 - A Size-Optimized RISC-V CPU
upduino-projects - Various VHDL projects I've worked on for the Upduino v2.0 and v3.0
skywater-pdk - Open source process design kit for usage with SkyWater Technology Foundry's 130nm node.
Cores-VeeR-EH1 - VeeR EH1 core
lxp32-cpu - A lightweight, open source and FPGA-friendly 32-bit CPU core based on an original instruction set