How to Build a RISC-V System In Just 30 Minutes

Credits: Embedded World Conference 2019 Proceedings, http://www.embedded-world.eu

Abstract — RISC-V is an open ISA (instruction set architecture) enabling a new era of innovation for processor architectures. RISC-V includes open source processor cores, toolchains, simulators and other key supporting components. The RISC-V ecosystem enables a new level of innovation in processor architecture that will be a key driver for the needed gains in performance and power efficiency over the next decade.

Introduction
The rapid growth of RISC-V has been truly impressive to witness. Originally developed at UC Berkeley as a means to support a graduate student project, the free and open ISA has become widely popular promising to bring the innovation and collaboration of the open source community to the hardware world – and to dramatically disrupt the whole semiconductor industry in the process.

So really the question is: How do I get started with RISC-V?

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