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Thanks for the explanations. Do you know if people have attempted interfacing with Chiplink using homebrew FPGA solutions?

• rwmj 8y ago
  The daughterboard is relevant here: https://www.crowdsupply.com/microsemi/hifive-unleashed-expansion-board https://www.crowdsupply.com/microsemi/hifive-unleashed-expan... It takes the Chiplink connection and routes it to a PCIe bridge. There's also a large FPGA on there, but I'm not quite clear how it's all connected up. I don't know much about what people are using this for. Also the whole setup costs like $4000 so I guess it's not quite ready for casual home users just yet. If you want to go the FPGA route, then it might be better looking at a Virtex-7 and putting the RISC-V rocketchip core on there, along with whatever local customizations you want to try out.
  • matoro 8y ago
    Do you know if it is possible to actually purchase the daughter board? As far as I can tell they only made a limited supply for the crowdfunding program.
    • rwmj 8y ago
      We have one at Red Hat, but I don't know if they're making more of them. We're expecting new RISC-V hardware in 2019.