RISC-V

SiFive announced the availability of its state-of-the-art HiFive Premier P550 development board. An initial pre-release batch of 100 Yocto Linux-based boards, called the "Early Access Edition," is available for purchase through Arrow Electronics. A broader release with Canonical Ubuntu 24.04 pre-installed is scheduled for December, providing developers with an unparalleled out-of-box experience.

The quad-core SiFive Performance P550 processor, running at 1.4GHz, makes the HiFive Premier P550 the highest-performing RISC-V development board available. Its out-of-order core architecture delivers exceptional compute density and performance, all within an energy-efficient footprint.

HiFive Premier P550 Key Features:

• The world’s highest performing commercially available RISC-V CPU- SiFive P550
• 16-32GB LPDDR5 / 128GB eMMC
• Robust PC connectivity: SATA, PCIe, SD, M.2, USB 3
• Integrated Imagination GPU and ESWIN NPU

The Godbolt Compiler Explorer is a fantastic tool for assembler programmers. In this post, I show you how to use Compiler Explorer to generate RISC-V assembly code and offer some ideas to make best use of this tool.

In the last few years, we’ve seen an explosion of RISC-V CPU designs on FPGA and ASIC, including the RP2350 found on the Raspberry Pi Pico 2. Thankfully, RISC-V is ideal for assembly programming with its compact, easy-to-learn instruction set. This series will help you learn and understand 32-bit RISC-V instructions and programming.

I'm not totally sure if I'm just hyped up but i wanted to share that I ordered a device and am (im)patiently awaiting the shipment.

does anyone already have the device? hows your experience? what do you do with it?

i might get around to make a video or just a post about it in detail.

have a good one

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20499594

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20236242

Huge fan of risk-v and massively overwhelmed by analysis paralysis. I‘m in the market for risc-v hardware to develop on and play around with.

After some consideration, I will get an sbc for the hard tinkering and low level stuff and I‘m thinking of getting a tablet for regular use (browing, ebook reading, controlling smart home devices) as well as development and packaging stuff.

My reasoning for using dev hardware on a daily basis is that for myself to be able to use features, I need apps which I am incentivised to compile and package for risc-v.

I‘ve seen very promising risc-v videos but I‘m not sure what to expect from a tablet. To add to that the pinetab v is out of stock which was a strong candidate.

I know there is the new tablet from deepcomputing but its in preorder and the shipping to germany is pretty expensive. (100$ plus). The HD display is pretty awesome compared to the pinetab v but afaik the pinetab comes with accessories.

Any experience with risc-v tablets and which other offers do you consider good?

Incredibly impressive for a platform that hasn't even hit Debian stable yet.

This is using box64, an ARM/RISCV translation layer for x86 apps on Linux, not unlike "Rosetta" on MacOS.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19036611

The link makes it seem like crap hardware, and sure 4gb of ram is really crappy. But how does this compare with one of my kid's Fire tablets? Does anyone have opinions on that?

Hi folks,

after seeing a lot about RISC-V I would really like to get my hands on one of the sbc/dev boards. Since it is a hobby project, I‘d like to spend as little as possible while knowing that cheaping out wont get me far.

I have looked at the starfive visionfive 2 and also bananapi bpi-f3. The latter just came to my attention today.

I‘m thinking of ordering fron waveshare but the dhl shipping is 40% of the price on top so a couple friends might chip in.

My personal ideas are learning to work with and program, compile, package for risc-v as well as seeing first hand how far the development progresses. I dont mind building something with the board or using it as a pc but thats not my first use.

Any better options? Anyone have experience with waveshare? Other suggestions?

Thanks for reading!