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Out-of-order RV64IMAFDV core in SystemVerilog (Linux 6.6)
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HN · launched Nov 14, 2026 · 70 upvotes (top 22%) · 0 views
Niche: experimental and embedded operating systems · 142 launches, 6 in the last 7 days ▼ -60% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Hardware & robotics
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
No This is a hardware design: an out-of-order RISC-V CPU core that boots Linux. It requires deep computer architecture expertise, verification infrastructure, and typically FPGA or silicon tooling.
What it would actually take: Building a comparable core means expertise in microarchitecture (out-of-order scheduling, caches, MMU, vector extension), extensive RTL verification (formal and random testing, cosimulation against a reference model), and FPGA or ASIC toolchains. Booting Linux also requires getting the privileged architecture and peripherals right, which typically takes a team months to years.
Discussion
9 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Claude
Concerns raised: doubts about AI-generated work quality, Verilog is not real hardware, project only simulates rather than producing silicon
Feature requests: inclusive L2 cache, dual-core coherency
Competitors
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Attention rank: #206 of 1075 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 378 days after the earliest competitor.
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