RISC-V

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RISC-V (pronounced "risk-five") is a license-free, modular, extensible instruction set architecture (ISA).

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Been studying RISC-V for... I think a year now. Bought the booklet outlining the ISA's modules, and have been working down from there.

I have seen various startups and actual products, as well as a bunch of simulators, but I haven't really seen any projects trying to design a RISC-V CPU from the ground up.

Are there any groups doing this? I don't think I'm at a point where I could meaningfully contribute, I'm mostly interested for educating myself.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I guess just making sure my understanding aligns - RISC V being the instruction set, and you are wondering if anyone is building a CPU to implement it?

Came across a couple examples, if that’s what you mean

Hardware

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/06/sifives-brand-new-p550-is-one-of-the-worlds-fastest-risc-v-cpus/

https://www.sifive.com/technology/risc-v

https://riscv.org/news/2024/05/x-silicon-announces-a-new-low-power-open-standard-vulkan-enabled-c-gpu-a-risc-v-vector-cpu-infused-with-gpu-isa-and-ai-ml-acceleration-in-a-single-processor-core/

Cloud

https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/02/02/the-first-risc-v-shot-across-the-datacenter-bow/

https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/graviton/

https://riscv.org/news/2024/02/scaleway-launches-its-risc-v-servers-in-the-cloud-a-world-first-and-a-firm-commitment-to-technological-independence/

https://labs.scaleway.com/en/em-rv1/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's correct. I'm interested in seeing hardware implementations of it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I know LTT has a bit of a bad wrap these days. But he had a video on RISC V a while ago, in a desktop computer https://youtu.be/vaMxTSm53UU?feature=shared

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'd recommend the Explaining Computers videos on RV over LTT, especially since the guy at EC does a lot more research into RISC-V, and does yearly "state of RISC-V" videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6mPK3QCrBo

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Thanks for the recommendation!