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Re:A tiny RISC-V MCU board selling for $3 by leggomylibro on Thursday January 02, 2020 @03:50PM (#21939665)
It is interesting that they got their start that way - I've been wondering if the peripherals for SPI, USART, etc. work the same way in their RISC-V boards as they do on STM32/GD32 chips.

If so, one side effect of their mimicry might be that their RISC-V MCUs are much easier to get started with than their competitors'. I don't know how similar the two lines are, but it sure would be nice if you could just swap arm-none-eabi-gcc for the appropriate 32-bit RISC-V toolchain. I've been meaning to get some of the $5 Longan Nano boards carried by Seeed Studios, but the holidays are always distracting.

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Re:A tiny RISC-V MCU board selling for $3 by petra on Thursday January 02, 2020 @04:46PM (#21940231)
' GigaDevice similarly claims “complete compatibility” between its new GD32V RISC-V microcontrollers and the classic GD32 series of MCUs based on Arm. '

https://www.eetimes.com/gigadevice-intros-general-purpose-ri...

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Re:A tiny RISC-V MCU board selling for $3 by leggomylibro on Thursday January 02, 2020 @05:14PM (#21940532)
Sweet!! Can't wait to try them as drop-in-place Cortex-M replacements.
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