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Re:BOOM Open Source RISC-V Core Runs on Amazon EC2 F1 Instances by ajross on Thursday December 13, 2018 @03:57PM (#18676029)
It's a comparatively big, application-class CPU. You're asking too much. Those cheaper FPGAs are cheaper because they're smaller, and BOOM won't fit.
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Re:BOOM Open Source RISC-V Core Runs on Amazon EC2 F1 Instances by webaholic on Thursday December 13, 2018 @06:03PM (#18676957)
Not entirely unrealistic. Removing the FPU and reducing the width should get it to fit.
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Re:BOOM Open Source RISC-V Core Runs on Amazon EC2 F1 Instances by PhilWright on Thursday December 13, 2018 @07:25PM (#18677376)
But then it would not be an application class processor.
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