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by brucehoult
13 days ago
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The THead C906 core is full Linux-capable but is microcontroller-adjacent and has an early draft version of RVV that is different in details but has the same flavour (and at least some code is binary-compatible with RVV 1.0). Recent GCCs RVV intrinsics compile to either RVV 1.0 or the 0.7 draft (named XTHeadVector now) so if you're programming at that level they're compatible. Milk-V Duo starts at $3 for a tiny board with a 1.0 GHz C906 running Linux, a 700 MHz microcontroller config C906 (no MMU etc), and 64 MB RAM. Well, I paid $3 ... then they were $5 for several years and now I see $11 at arace.tech. There are also 256MB and 512MB versions, with the larger one also having an Arm A53 core. That's actually got full 128 bit SIMD with all data types supported up to 64 bit int and FP. You can also buy bare CV1800B and SG200x chips (Sophgo bought original designer Cvitek and enhanced the design) |
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