In this post we take a look at how the eminently affordable Xilinx Artix-7 based Digilent Arty Board – which was designed with makers and hobbyists in mind – can be configured with an open source RISC-V microcontroller that can optionally be built from RTL sources, and which can then be programmed via the Arduino IDE or alternatively a makefile driven GNU toolchain.
Basic familiarity with Linux, git and makefile driven software build is assumed.
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