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I would say Xilinx artix-7 board is good enough to experiment with picorv32 and it costs only $100.
by xfer 9y ago
I would say Xilinx artix-7 board is good enough to experiment with picorv32 and it costs only $100.
- seletz 9y agoOTOH, if you go for a lattice ICE40 based board, you can use a fully open source toolchain. I have a icoboard connected to a raspberry Pi 3 -- it's my little self-contained FOSS FPGA development station. Quite convenient :)
- duskwuff 9y ago> OTOH, if you go for a lattice ICE40 based board, you can use a fully open source toolchain. But you won't be able to synthesize a RISC-V CPU. The iCE40 series consists of relatively small parts.
- grahamedgecombe 9y ago> But you won't be able to synthesize a RISC-V CPU. The iCE40 series consists of relatively small parts. You can fit picorv32 on an iCE40-HX8K, although admittedly you'll only get an RV32IMC core with just the user ISA.