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yosys/nextpnr/apio/icestorm isn't
> Buy a medium sized FPGA and download a CPU of your choice.
even a small fpga like the ice40-hx8k can fit picorv32 or serv, and it costs 13 dollars on digi-key https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/lattice-semicondu...
but it sort of seems like a waste of perfectly good luts if your objective isn't to develop a cpu but to use the cpu to script whatever heavy-duty data crunching the fpga is doing
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yosys/nextpnr/apio/icestorm isn't
> Buy a medium sized FPGA and download a CPU of your choice.
even a small fpga like the ice40-hx8k can fit picorv32 or serv, and it costs 13 dollars on digi-key https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/lattice-semicondu...
but it sort of seems like a waste of perfectly good luts if your objective isn't to develop a cpu but to use the cpu to script whatever heavy-duty data crunching the fpga is doing