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- How many LUT for an 8 bit CPU?
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Minimax: a Compressed-First, Microcoded RISC-V CPU
In short: it works, though the implementation lacks the crystal clarity of FemtoRV32 and PicoRV32. The core is larger than SERV but has higher IPC and (very arguably) a more conventional implementation. The compressed instruction set is easier to expand into regular RV32I instructions than it is to execute directly.
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Apple to Move a Part of Its Embedded Cores to RISC-V
https://github.com/olofk/serv
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I have created a Reddit community about PicoBlaze soft processor...
As for the size advantage: this mattered more when LUTs were precious and when PicoBlaze's competition was either similarly unorthodox (J1 Forth CPU) or several times larger (MicroBlaze). Nowadays, there are very small RISC-V cores like FemtoRV32 Quark or SERV. RISC-V benefits from mainstream open-source tooling and has momentum that's hard to beat.
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RISC-V announces first new specifications of 2022 adding to 16 ratified in 2021
The RISC-V spec does allow non-trapping behavior and SeRV in particular has non-trapping behavior, which is an important part of how it can fit into 200 4-input LUTs.
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looking for 16 bit RISC ISA to implement on cyclon IV FPGA
SERV has an RV32I ISA. It is really light. I am sure it will fit.
- Risc-v with minimum number of gates
- Olof Kindgren on LinkedIn: We have a new world record! 6000 RISC-V cores in a single chip!
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RISCV sim through Verilator
I have tested SERV on Verilator. It was working without any problems.
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Glacial – microcoded RISC-V core designed for low FPGA resource utilization
Along the same lines of minimizing the amount of logic used at the cost of cycles, there's SERV which uses a bit-serial implementation with a 1-bit data path: https://github.com/olofk/serv
From time to time, I have been tempted to design a RISC-V implementation out of discrete TTL components. Sure, there are plenty of projects out there to build your own processor from scratch, but most of them aren't LLVM targets!
The 32-bit datapaths and need for so many registers makes it a bit daunting to approach directly. That approach would probably end up similar in scale to a MIPS implementation I once saw done like that. (Can't find the link, but it was about half a dozen A4-sized PCBs).
Retreating to an 8-bit microcoded approach and lifting all the registers and complexity into RAM and software is a very attractive idea. It's not like it would ever be a speed demon, either way.
fusesoc
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CI/CD for FPGA builds
Check out FuseSoC: https://github.com/olofk/fusesoc it can run Vivado builds for you (as well as many other tools). It may be less work to get FuseSoC setup then work out a CLI Vivado batch flow from scratch.
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Besides misterFPGA what else can I play with on a DE10-nano?
Also, the FuseSOC and LiteX projects both support the DE10 nano, and can be used to roll your own custom SOCs with RISC-V or OpenRISC cores.
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Any recommendations for an RTL "standard library"?
FuseSoC is an RTL package manager. It will automatically download the latest versions of required components when you build. It also comes with a bunch of great options for components here:
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What should a modern IP library look like?
Are you aware of FuseSoC: https://github.com/olofk/fusesoc? It's a build system for HDL that uses edalize so it can target many different tools.
Have to correct this slightly: I just heard of my first HDL package manager in this thread. FuseSOC: https://github.com/olofk/fusesoc - Thanks u/gac_cag!
- Olof Kindgren on LinkedIn: We have a new world record! 6000 RISC-V cores in a single chip!
- Industry development process?
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FPGA development board for beginners programmable w/ floss toolchain
I'd recommend looking at fusesoc to automate flows: https://github.com/olofk/fusesoc
What are some alternatives?
litex - Build your hardware, easily!
edalize - An abstraction library for interfacing EDA tools
cocotb - cocotb, a coroutine based cosimulation library for writing VHDL and Verilog testbenches in Python
opentitan - OpenTitan: Open source silicon root of trust
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.
riscv-cores-list - RISC-V Cores, SoC platforms and SoCs
VHDL_Lib - Library of VHDL components that are useful in larger designs.
viv-prj-gen - tcl scripts used to build or generate vivado projects automatically
rocket-chip - Rocket Chip Generator
axi - AXI SystemVerilog synthesizable IP modules and verification infrastructure for high-performance on-chip communication
hdl - HDL libraries and projects