[HN Gopher] Building the SHAKTI Microprocessor
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       Building the SHAKTI Microprocessor
        
       Author : yarapavan
       Score  : 59 points
       Date   : 2022-10-24 13:29 UTC (9 hours ago)
        
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       | 2Gkashmiri wrote:
       | How long before these processors hit the market in rapsberry pi
       | replacement products? 5 years?
        
       | nigerianbrince wrote:
       | It says SHAKTI is an "open source processor" but I cannot find
       | any design docs anywhere.
        
         | adtac wrote:
         | https://shakti.org.in/processors.html
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         | See the "learn more" link under each class
        
           | nigerianbrince wrote:
           | I was talking about the verilog code.
        
             | xfer wrote:
             | Here : https://gitlab.com/shaktiproject/cores/shakti-soc
        
         | chasil wrote:
         | It's just RISC-V.
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         | "RISC-V has been chosen as the instruction set architecture
         | (ISA) for the SHAKTI class of processors. The SHAKTI processor
         | and systems design is developed using the open source high-
         | level synthesis (HLS) language: Bluespec System Verilog (BSV)."
        
           | Pet_Ant wrote:
           | Yes, but where is the actual Verilog for the cores? At least
           | BlueSec doesn't seem to be a proprietary dialect:
           | https://github.com/B-Lang-org/bsc (BSD License)
        
             | saidinesh5 wrote:
             | https://gitlab.com/shaktiproject/cores/ seems to have all
             | the verilog they published.
        
           | mhh__ wrote:
           | If only it were that simple...
           | 
           | (Saying it's "just" RISC-V is like saying the Clang is the
           | same as same as hello world because they're both in C++)
        
       | anonu wrote:
       | For a moment I got excited that https://shakti.com/ was building
       | its own processor...
        
       | jp0d wrote:
       | Great to hear that it can be used as a desktop replacement. I did
       | my bachelors in Electrical Engineering in India almost 16 years
       | ago. We went to GridCo for our industrial training sessions. The
       | managing director was very interested in the subject of quality
       | of electricity. The voltage fluctuates so much due to a variety
       | of factors that it used to be almost impossible to provide
       | reliable electricity for manufacturing chips. He was quite sad
       | when told us about the story where Intel couldn't set up a fab in
       | India and chose to go to Israel instead because of this very
       | reason. Hopefully things have changed.
        
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