VRoom A high end RISC-V implementation

Re:VRoom A high end RISC-V implementation by panick21_ on Monday March 21, 2022 @10:57PM (#30762273)

Is this a hobby? Is there a way to support the project?

What your view on that kind of design for a laptop/phone/tablet processor?

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Re:VRoom A high end RISC-V implementation by Taniwha on Tuesday March 22, 2022 @12:16AM (#30762678)

It's a personal project, but an expensive one (with very large AWS bills some months), needs a commercial sponsor to end up as a real chip you could put in real platforms and a real chip design team to build it

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Re:VRoom A high end RISC-V implementation by throwaway81523 on Tuesday March 22, 2022 @02:55AM (#30763366)

Maybe there's a way to hit up AMD/Xilinx for an donated or loaned FPGA box so you don't have to use AWS?

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Re:VRoom A high end RISC-V implementation by tux3 on Tuesday March 22, 2022 @03:13AM (#30763441)

You could probably find a riscv intl member company willing to donate small fpga boards, but if this design barely fits on an AWS f1 instance, I think realistically that'd have to be a 5 digit price board

For reference, Digikey unit price for a VU440 floats around the $40-60k range

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Re:VRoom A high end RISC-V implementation by Taniwha on Tuesday March 22, 2022 @04:35AM (#30763882)

Next step up is probably a VU13P based board, there were a few on EBay a year ago ~$5k, almost bought one, but then bitcoin went up again ..... I'm hoping for a crypto crash ....

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