What If You Built Your Own RISC-V MCU on an FPGA? TinyMCU is a really nice learning project for a...

What If You Built Your Own RISC-V MCU on an FPGA? TinyMCU is a really nice learning project for a...What If You Built Your Own RISC-V MCU on an FPGA? TinyMCU is a really nice learning project for a...

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Adeagbo AbdulJeleel

• Aug 26

What If You Built Your Own RISC-V MCU on an FPGA?

TinyMCU is a really nice learning project for anyone getting into FPGA, CPU design and RISC-V.

It's a small RV32I RISC-V microcontroller written in VHDL, designed specifically for learning. The repo includes the CPU pipeline, ALU, register file, CSR logic, instruction memory, SRAM and GPIO peripheral.

The software side is included too. You can write C/assembly firmware, compile it with the RISC-V GCC toolchain and run it on the FPGA implementation.

It also has interrupt support, a timer, GPIO and simulation infrastructure with GHDL and GTKWave. The current implementation supports RV32I plus parts of the RISC-V B bit-manipulation extension.

You get to see how the pieces of a microcontroller actually fit together instead of treating the MCU as a black box.

Madhava H S

• 3h

What problem can be solved by developing a microcontroller-based embedded system for real-time sensing, processing, and automatic control?

Develop a low-cost embedded system using ESP32/STM32 microcontroller that senses real-time data, processes it locally, and automatically controls devices with wireless connectivity and low power consumption.

Features:

This embedded system is designed for real-time sensing, local data processing, and automatic device control, making it efficient and responsive for practical applications. It also includes Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity, low power operation, a compact and low-cost design, and easy IoT integration for smart and connected solutions.

Austyn McFadden

pro

• 17h

Built a custom @Rive component for the About section of my agency site.

The lanyard and badge are fully interactive. You can grab them, throw them around, and spin the badge 360° to see both sides.

It doesn’t necessarily need to do all of that, but that’s kind of the point.

Small interactive moments like this can turn a pretty standard section of a website into something people actually want to play with, remember, and come back to.

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