• Chemical Wonka@discuss.tchncs.de
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    4 months ago

    Just a reminder the RISC-V architecture is not open source as many think it is only the instruction set is open source. We remain far from a truly open/libre hardware for now

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      4 months ago

      Sorry, but that is completely wrong. RISC-V is an ISA, nothing less, nothing more, and it is completely, 100% open-source. The licensing of the hardware implementations is a different matter, but that’s outside of the scope of RISC-V. As I said, it is just an ISA.

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      4 months ago

      There’s plenty of designs out there that you can load onto an FPGA or, funds permitting, send off to a fab to burn into silicon.