Seventh RISC-V Workshop: Day Two

Re:Seventh RISC-V Workshop: Day Two by alexibm on Thursday November 30, 2017 @02:25PM (#15818699)

What bothers me, is that all the Digital Design tools are freaking expensive and closed source. For example, building RISC-V is possible on FPGA board, but you have to have Xilinx tools (or some other brand).

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Re:Seventh RISC-V Workshop: Day Two by FullyFunctional on Thursday November 30, 2017 @08:35PM (#15821267)

Both Xilinx and Altera^H^H^H^H^H^HIntel provides gratis tools for their lower end FPGAs, but those are plenty to implement an SoC, even one that can boot Linux. In particular Cyclone V A9 is a pretty impressive FPGA. Sadly, Intel decided to _not_ provide gratis support for their Cyclone 10 GX :(

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Re:Seventh RISC-V Workshop: Day Two by ryacko on Thursday November 30, 2017 @03:59PM (#15819476)

It bothers me that expensive life saving medical equipment are expensive and closed source.

But otherwise there is no incentive for large organizations to invest in a project.

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