There’s now a microATX motherboard and workstation for native RISC-V improvement primarily based on the SOPHON SG2042 64-core RISC-V C920 processor with as much as 128GB DDR4 reminiscence, varied SATA and M.2 NVMe interfaces for storage, three PCIe x16 slot for growth and extra.
I keep in mind a number of years in the past, there was a whole lot of speak about making a workstation for native Arm improvement as an alternative of counting on x86 machines, cross-compilation, and emulation. So we obtained {hardware} just like the HoneyComb LX2K, Ampere eMAG, and extra lately the ADLINK Ampere Altra Dev Package to attain this objective. The RISC-V ecosystem is now getting one thing related due to the Milk-V Pioneer microATX motherboard and the Pioneer Field that gives a whole 64-core RISC-V workstation with DIMM reminiscence, SATA and NVMe storage, a graphics card, 10GbE networking, a 350W energy provide, and extra.
Pioneer board specs:
- SoC – Sophgo SOPHON SG2042 64-core RISC-V processor (T-Head C920 – RVV 0.71) clocked at as much as 2.0 GHz with 64KB I-cache, 64KB D-cache, 1MB L2 cache per cluster, and 64MB L3 system cache
- System Reminiscence – 4x DDR4 DIMM slots as much as 128GB ECC RAM
- Storage
- As much as 2x NVMe SSD by way of M.2 M Key 2280 (PCIe 3.0 x4) sockets
- 5x SATA III ports
- eMMC module socket
- MicroSD card for restoration or OS loading
- 64MB SPI Flash for BIOS
- Networking
- 2x 2.5GbE RJ45 ports
- Optionally available WiFi and Bluetooth by way of M.2 socket
- USB – 8x USB 3.2 Gen 2 Sort-A ports, 1x USB header for entrance panel (2x USB 3.0)
- Enlargement
- PCI Specific: 3x PCIe x16 Slot (PCIe 3.0 x8)
- 1x M.2 E Key (PCIe 3.0 x1 + USB 2.0) for wi-fi module
- 2x M.2 M Key 2280 (PCIe 3.0 x4) sockets for SSD or different modules
- Misc – Header for entrance panel energy, reset, LED, and so on.
- Energy Provide – 24-pin ATX energy connector
- Dimensions – 24.4 x 24.4 cm
Pioneer Field specs:
- Motherboard – Pioneer board described above
- System Reminiscence – 128GB 3200 MHz DDR4
- Storage – 1TB PCIe 3.0 SSD
- GPU card – AMD R5 230 graphics card with HDMI, VGA, and DVI
- Networking card – Intel X520-T2 community card with 2x 10 Gbps RJ45 ports
- Energy Provide – 350W MSI A350 energy provide
- Cooling – Cooler with PWM fan as much as 2300 RPM
- Slim enclosure with deal with
The Pioneer microATX motherboard helps UEFI boot via the OpenSBI mainline code, and Yixun Lan, the developer of Gentoo, accomplished the preliminary porting of U-Boot so it may be used in addition the OS as an alternative of Linuxboot. Sophgo engineers are additionally engaged on EDK2 for UEFI/ACPI assist.
We’re advised the Pioneer Board helps varied Linux distributions similar to Fedora, OpenEuler, Debian, Gentoo, Deepin, Ubuntu, and ArchLinux. You’ll discover some documentation on the mission’s web site, in addition to instruments and supply code for Linux, the bootloader, openSBI, and so on… on GitHub.
The 64-core RISC-V motherboard and workstation may be discovered on Crowd Provide with a $50,000 funding goal. The Pioneer Motherboard sells for $1,199 with a heatsink and heatsink mount bracket, and the whole Pioneer Field with 128 GB RAM and a 1 TB NVMe SSD, a twin 10GbE community card, an AMD graphics card, and an influence cable goes for $1,999. Costs embody worldwide transport, and deliveries are scheduled to begin on December 19, 2023.
Due to Tom for the tip.
Jean-Luc began CNX Software program in 2010 as a part-time endeavor, earlier than quitting his job as a software program engineering supervisor, and beginning to write day by day information, and critiques full time later in 2011.
