Request: support for Kendryte K210 (Sipeed M1 modules)

[MrZANE]

Hi

I don’t know if you’ve heard about the Kendryte k210, either way it’s a very interesting chip.
It’s a dual core 64-bit RISC-V chip running at 400+ MHz with built in RAM and accelerators for Neural networks, fft, crypto ssh and aes.
It’s cheap (Modules with flash and wifi $9, w/o wifi $8), ok documented and there are multiple dev. boards that can be bought cheaply (See seeedstudio link below).
The toolchain is based on gcc with openocd for JTAG debugging.

I was just wondering if this is something you would consider supporting, perhaps in the future as I’m sure you already have your plate full.

Here are some links:

https://kendryte.com/downloads/

https://github.com/kendryte

https://www.seeedstudio.com/catalogsearch/result/?cat=&q=sipeed

https://maixduino.sipeed.com/en/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcoc0GrYujM

[MrZANE]

Here is a summary of the k210 features:

https://loboris.eu/forum/showthread.php?tid=878

[support]

Thanks for suggesting this. The boards do look promising and we will consider supporting them out-of-the-box once they get more traction (i.e. major distributors like DigiKey begin carrying them and/or we see more media coverage for them indicating the growing amount of users).

Until the boards are fully supported, you should be able to configure VisualGDB to target them manually by using our RISC-V toolchain and then specifying the build flags manually as shown in this tutorial. We will be happy to help you locate the relevant VisualGDB settings to make this work, however please be advised that as the SDK and the board is relatively new, it may not work as reliably as ARM-based devices.

Edit: VisualGDB now supports K210 boards directly. You can find more details in this tutorial: https://visualgdb.com/tutorials/risc-v/kendryte/k210/

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