Re:I built a hardware processor that runs Python
by hermitShell on Monday April 28, 2025 @08:37AM
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fantastic project. Do you envision this as living on FPGA's forever, or getting into silicon directly? Maybe an extension of RISC-V?
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Re:I built a hardware processor that runs Python
by hwpythonner on Monday April 28, 2025 @08:47AM
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Oh boy, I definitely considered that — turning PyXL into a RISC-V extension was an early idea I thought of.
It could probably be adapted into one.
But I ultimately decided to build it as its own clean design because I wanted the flexibility to rethink the entire execution model for Python — not just adapt an existing register-based architecture.
FPGA is for prototyping. although this could probably be used as a soft core. But looking forward, ASIC is definitely the way to go.