[Arm-netbook] bunnie about riscv

Bill Kontos vkontogpls at gmail.com
Mon Jun 12 09:53:25 BST 2017


On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 3:26 AM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at lkcl.net
> wrote:

>
>
>  this is why both the chinese and the russian governments now design
> and make their own CPUs.  in the case of china that's FROM SCRATCH.
> and using only trusted foundries.
>
> l.
>
> I got a question: Assuming we got a decent design for a core( maybe based
on this https://github.com/ucb-bar/riscv-boom) , how would we deal with the
rest of the ip blocks needed to run peripherals ? I assume the most
complicated ones would be usb and ethernet, and I fail to see the point of
a SoC without usb.


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