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by cbm-vic-20 924 days ago
One of my "some day", "probably way more effort than I want to spend" projects would be to create a 40-ish-pin DIP module that contains a RV32 core and has a 6502-like pinout so you can build small homebrew computers that use the RV32 ISA. There are a ton of comporomises that would have to be made, but that's part of the fun.

Most of the small RV32 microcontrollers have a low pin count lots of on-board devices, and it's not as straightforward as gluing together a CPU, RAM, ROM, and some IO devices on a breadboard.

Basically, an answer to the questopn "how would a breadboard computer built in 1977 look if the RV32 ISA existed?"