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Is there any small risc-v soft-core with big ass SVE (scalable vector extensions)? I would like to play around with them but the only option seem to be cloud in

• camel-cdr 2y ago
  You seem to be confusing two different things: gravitron: has ARM SVE extension licheerv nano: has RISC-V Vector extension Both ARM SVE and the RISC-V Vector Extension (RVV) are vector length agnostic, but quite different in their design. Since RISC-V allows for open source implementations, there are a few projects working on RVV implementations. Check out the t1 project, they implement a configurable RVV implementation, that is supposed to be driven by a small scalar core, e.g. RocketChip. [0] There are configurations for vector length of 512-bit to 16K bit. Connecting it to RocketChip isn't officially supported just yet, and it uses the spike emulator for the scalar part. They offer a pre-build docker environment, so you can play around with the RTL simulation via "docker run --name t1 -it -v $PWD:/workspace --rm ghcr.io/chipsalliance/t1-machamp:latest /bin/bash" This drops you into a shell, and you can start simulating a 1K vector length processor, with "ip-emulator --no-logging -C yourProgram", see the tests/ director for example code. At least in theory, but there might still be a few bugs. [0] https://github.com/chipsalliance/t1 https://github.com/chipsalliance/t1