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Superscalar OoO RISC-V CPU, marchid: 50 (0x32), RVA22S64. - Kingfish404/raptor-chip

PH · launched Sep 18, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 69%) · 0 views

Niche: open-source hardware and maker electronics · 180 launches, 3 in the last 7 days ▼ -73% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags

  • Horizontal
  • Hardware & robotics
  • Developer
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project
  • Developer Tools
  • GitHub
  • Tech
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Could you build this?

No Designing a superscalar out-of-order 64-bit RISC-V CPU requires deep computer architecture expertise, hardware description languages (Verilog/SystemVerilog/Chisel), and rigorous formal verification that AI coding cannot substitute for.

What it would actually take: Implementation requires writing synthesized HDL (SystemVerilog/Chisel) implementing branch prediction, register renaming (RAT/ROB), speculative execution, memory disambiguation, and cache coherency conforming to the RVA22S64 spec. The architecture must pass extensive torture tests and formal verification suites (e.g., RISCOF) using tools like Verilator and commercial EDA software. This demands specialized computer architecture and digital VLSI hardware engineering expertise.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 428 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #326 of 429 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 315 days after the earliest competitor.

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