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Re:13-Year-Old, Nicholas Sharkey, Creates a RISC-V Core by klelatti on Saturday November 14, 2020 @03:03PM (#25095162)
Any recommendations for tools / environment to do this?
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Re:13-Year-Old, Nicholas Sharkey, Creates a RISC-V Core by snvzz on Saturday November 14, 2020 @07:23PM (#25096939)
Anything supported by the open FPGA stack (yosys+nextpnr), which does mean iCE40 or ECP5, currently.

I own/recommend iCESugar, as that's a good iCE40 devboard which is dirt cheap on the official shop in aliexpress[0].

Look at ECP5-based ULX3S[1] if you want to get fancy.

More options at [2].

[0]: https://muselab-tech.aliexpress.com/store/5940159

[1]: https://www.crowdsupply.com/radiona/ulx3s

[2]: https://joelw.id.au/FPGA/CheapFPGADevelopmentBoards

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Re:13-Year-Old, Nicholas Sharkey, Creates a RISC-V Core by jacquesm on Saturday November 14, 2020 @03:26PM (#25095347)
Go wild:

https://store.digilentinc.com/fpga-development-boards-kits-f...

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Re:13-Year-Old, Nicholas Sharkey, Creates a RISC-V Core by klelatti on Saturday November 14, 2020 @04:05PM (#25095613)
Thank you!
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Re:13-Year-Old, Nicholas Sharkey, Creates a RISC-V Core by jacquesm on Saturday November 14, 2020 @05:43PM (#25096358)
You're welcome. I have one of those (a bit older though), and every now and then I play around with it for a bit to keep my skills alive, it's super impressive what you can do with hardware this flexible. Get something with as much IO as you can find/afford.
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