Building a tiny RISC-V core for Xilinx FPGA with complete FOSS toolchain

by ruinland 4 years ago

GNU/Linux ◆ xterm-256color ◆ bash 1053 views

This is a test run of Dave Shah’s nextpnr-xilinx fork, which enables nextpnr to conduct auto place-and-route procedure on Xilinx xc7a35t . The AttoSoC running blinky is based on a very famous open-source RISC-V 32, PicoRV32, to demonstrate basic timer and MMIO capability.

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