Building a RISC-V PC

While it’s clear that the most significant opportunities for RISC-V will be in democratising custom silicon for accelerating specific tasks and enabling new applications — and it’s already driving a renaissance in novel computer architectures, for e.g. IoT and edge processing — one question that people cannot help but ask is, so when can I have a RISC-V PC? At the time of writing a bitstream is provided for configuring the FPGA to implement a ChipLink interface towards the RISC-V processor and a PCIe root complex, which is in turn connected to a PCIe switch ASIC. The Expansion Board also has a SATA interface that can be used right now, along with HDMI and USB connectors which could potentially be used with a new FPGA bitstream.

Source: abopen.com