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<p>On 04.01.2017 15:46, Charles Manning wrote:</p>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 2:51 PM, hamster <span><<a href="mailto:hamster@snap.net.nz">hamster@snap.net.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br />
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<p>I got a SiFive HiFive1 RISC-V devboard for Christmas - the hint to my wife worked. The board I got was an "early access" model of <a href="https://www.sifive.com/products/hifive1/">https://www.sifive.com/products/hifive1/</a></p>
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<div>Soft cores are interesting & fun to play with.<br /> </div>
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<p>Not that it makes much difference to Charles' points regarding licensing, but for this board the core is "fully hardened" - implemented in silicon using a TSMC 180nm process and running at about 300MHz, with JTAG and debug and so on.</p>
<p>The confusion is understandable, as RISC-V is also available as a soft core, and 1,680 processors have been implemented inside a single (eye-wateringly expensive) FPGA, complete with a Network-on-chip infrastructure... https://twitter.com/jangray/status/814757136659906560 </p>
<p>Mike</p>
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