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No need to sad, with the rise of RISC-V and the help of FPGA, many CS students nowadays take writing a soft core CPU as a hobby. When RISC-V and open source FP
by jhvkjhk 5y ago
No need to sad, with the rise of RISC-V and the help of FPGA, many CS students nowadays take writing a soft core CPU as a hobby.
When RISC-V and open source FPGA toolchain become more popular, I guess more and more programmers will come back to play with hardware.
- birktj 5y agoI have been looking for a cheap fpga devboard for this sort of thing, but results have been somewhat disappointing. The tinyfpgas look great but have been sold out for a long time. I have seen some interesting ones on tindie but the selection is quite limited. Does anyone here have any good pointers? (Plus for one with a hand-solderable fpga)
- colejohnson66 5y agoThe iCE40 from Lattice is pretty popular for its open source (reverse engineered) toolchain. As far as hand soldering an FPGA, you’re gonna have a hard time finding any that aren’t BGA simply because of all the IO. They exist, but probably not in dev board form as they’re really limited in IO and cells.
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- nobodywasishere 5y agoI like and use the Upduino 3.0
- sigstoat 5y agothe iCE40HX4K is available in TQFP-144, which can be reliably hand soldered after some youtube videos and practice. i think there are still xilinx CPLDs in TQFP too. should be boards floating around for any of them. if not, well, only reason you'd want to hand solder it is because you're making your own board. a simple dev board is great practice to make sure you've got your package correct.