CHIPS Alliance

Registry:: https://registry.platformio.org/platforms/platformio/chipsalliance
Configuration:: platform = platformio/chipsalliance

The CHIPS Alliance develops high-quality, open source hardware designs relevant to silicon devices and FPGAs.

For more detailed information please visit vendor site.

Examples 

Examples are listed from CHIPS Alliance development platform repository:

Debugging 

Debugging - “1-click” solution for debugging with a zero configuration.

Supported debugging tools are listed in “Debug” column. For more detailed information, please scroll table by horizontal. You can switch between debugging Tools & Debug Probes using debug_tool option in “platformio.ini” (Project Configuration File).

Warning

You will need to install debug tool drivers depending on your system. Please click on compatible debug tool below for the further instructions.

On-Board Debug Tools 

Boards listed below have on-board debug probe and ARE READY for debugging! You do not need to use/buy external debug probe.

Name	MCU	Frequency	Flash	RAM
RVfpga: Digilent Nexys A7		320MHz	16MB	1.16MB

Stable and upstream versions 

You can switch between stable releases of CHIPS Alliance development platform and the latest upstream version using platform option in “platformio.ini” (Project Configuration File) as described below.

Stable

; Latest stable version, NOT recommended
; Pin the version as shown below
[env:latest_stable]
platform = chipsalliance
board = ...

; Specific version
[env:custom_stable]
platform = chipsalliance@x.y.z
board = ...

Upstream

[env:upstream_develop]
platform = https://github.com/platformio/platform-chipsalliance.git
board = ...

Packages 

Name	Description
framework-wd-riscv-sdk	The WD Firmware package contains Firmware applications and Processor Support Package (PSP) for various cores, alongside demos which support all features.
tool-openocd-riscv-chipsalliance	Fork of Open On-Chip Debugger that has RISC-V support and enabled VPI JTAG
tool-verilator-swervolf	Verilator is an open-source SystemVerilog simulator and lint system
tool-whisper	Whisper is a RISCV instruction set simulator (ISS) developed for the verification of the Swerv micro-controller. It allows the user to run RISC-V code without RISC-V hardware
toolchain-riscv	GNU toolchain for RISC-V, including GCC

Warning

Linux Users:

Install “udev” rules 99-platformio-udev.rules

Raspberry Pi users, please read this article Enable serial port on Raspberry Pi.

Windows Users:

Please check that you have a correctly installed USB driver from board manufacturer

Frameworks 

Name	Description
FreeRTOS	FreeRTOS is a real-time operating system kernel for embedded devices that has been ported to 40 microcontroller platforms.
WD-Firmware	The WD Firmware package contains Firmware applications and Processor Support Package (PSP) for various cores, alongside demos which support all features.

Boards 

Note

You can list pre-configured boards by pio boards command
For more detailed board information please scroll the tables below by horizontally.

Digilent

Name	Debug	MCU	Frequency	Flash	RAM
RVfpga: Digilent Nexys A7	On-board		320MHz	16MB	1.16MB