A $9 Introduction to the RISC-V Future of Computing

Is RISC-V the future of computing? I sure hope so. So I tracked down one of the cheapest Linux-capable SBCs that supports this architecture, the Milk-V Duo. For a listed price of $9 (and selling for $5), this little guy offers a RV64 Linux environment complete with busybox, Ethernet, and a wide assortment of IO rivaling some microcontrollers. Today I'm going to steup the board and start learning about RISC-V computing! Fundamentally, the RISC-V architecture is a document which describes the binary machine lanuage of a 32, 64, or 128 bit processor with integer and optional floating point support, but it's also symbolic of the shift to open computing for the future, and as a computer engineer I'm excited to learn more about it. Find information about the Group Buy on my Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/s/3a337eb05c Milk-V Product Page: https://milkv.io/duo Buy the Milk-V Duo on Arace Tech: https://arace.tech/collections/milk-v-duo Buy the Milk-V Duo on Taobao: https://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=a1z10.1-c.w4004-24811212567.2.1f7913b5Y8K002&id=707976817589 Milk-V Duo Documentation: https://milkv.io/docs/duo/overview Feel free to chat about my upcoming projects on Discord! https://discord.gg/xJsaEukAr4 Blog post with links: https://www.apalrd.net/posts/2023/riscv_duo/ Test Code / Assembly on my Github: https://github.com/apalrd/riscv-morse/) IPV6-enabled SD Image on my Github: https://github.com/apalrd/milkv-duo-buildroot-sdk/releases/tag/v1.0.4.1 I reached out to Milk-V to make this video, they sent me the board, breakout, and camera free of charge but were otherwise not involved in this video. If you want to hear me talk more about the history of computer architecture, here's a cut clip from this video: https://youtu.be/fgC2WEhsEpc Timestamps: 00:00 - Introduction 00:49 - What Is RISC-V? 01:35 - Unboxing 03:06 - First Boot 05:30 - Writing Code 09:29 - RISC-V Assembly 16:38 - Hardware IO 17:18 - Ethernet 19:39 - Kernel Build 22:04 - USB Host 22:52 - Camera 23:20 - RISC and Me #riscv #computerarchitecture