How many more years until we have a completely open source RISC-V SOC?

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• openwifi

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• litex

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Most of them might still be missing on the ASIC side, but already exist to some extent on the FPGA side. Litex (https://github.com/enjoy-digital/litex/) is adding support for the USB host (ohci-compatible) developed for Saxon (https://github.com/SpinalHDL/SaxonSoc), in addition to the DRAM, Ethernet (MII, GMII, some RGMII), micro-sd, UART, HDMI framebuffer, ... peripherals that are already supported.

• SaxonSoc

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Most of them might still be missing on the ASIC side, but already exist to some extent on the FPGA side. Litex (https://github.com/enjoy-digital/litex/) is adding support for the USB host (ohci-compatible) developed for Saxon (https://github.com/SpinalHDL/SaxonSoc), in addition to the DRAM, Ethernet (MII, GMII, some RGMII), micro-sd, UART, HDMI framebuffer, ... peripherals that are already supported.

• cva6

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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 ).

• litedram

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So for instance (and AFAI understand...) the DDR2 sdram controller uses a generic PHY (https://github.com/enjoy-digital/litedram/blob/master/litedram/phy/gensdrphy.py) , but the DDR3 one has to talk to some vendor-specific PHY (e.g. https://github.com/enjoy-digital/litedram/blob/master/litedram/phy/s7ddrphy.py ). The controller itself is vendor-agnostic (https://github.com/enjoy-digital/litedram/blob/master/litedram/core/controller.py). On Xilinx FPGA it doesn't rely on MIG at all.

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