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Title: Perf-V: An FPGA based RISC-V developer board, which costs US$79
Post by: Redaktion on June 19, 2019, 16:15:56
The PerfXLab Perf-V is an FPGA based RISC-V developer board that comes with 256 GB of DDR3 RAM along with 8 MB of FPGA and 8 MB of RISC-V flash storage. The board features a host of connectors and interfaces, while it can be programmed with Vivado and supports an IDE for Windows RISC-V development. The Perf-V will ship worldwide on June 21 from Seeedstudio and costs US$79.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Perf-V-An-FPGA-based-RISC-V-developer-board-which-costs-US-79.424795.0.html
Title: Re: Perf-V: An FPGA based RISC-V developer board, which costs US$79
Post by: Girish on June 19, 2019, 18:47:11
You misspelled MB to GB it is 256MB instead of 256GB Ram
Title: Re: Perf-V: An FPGA based RISC-V developer board, which costs US$79
Post by: Hertz007 on June 19, 2019, 19:27:50
I thought the advantage of Risv-V is that it is FREE? This is a disgrace.
Title: Re: Perf-V: An FPGA based RISC-V developer board, which costs US$79
Post by: Mr Potato on June 19, 2019, 21:30:51
This board looks like a stripped-down Arty-A7 (Digilent) with 3/4 of the universal PMOD expansion headers replaced by a proprietary expansion header. Most of the chips are the same. The Arty-A7 has had a Risc-V implementation for a while now. $119 street price.

Perf-V is pretty weak on connectors and interfaces - no Ethernet and only one PMOD expansion.  That's how they knocked it down to $79.
Seeed is probably planning to sell you a separate expansion board.