The Berkeley Out-of-Order Machine (BOOM) is a synthesizable and parameterizable open source RV64GC RISC-V core written in the Chisel hardware construction language. While BOOM is primarily ASIC optimized, it is also usable on FPGAs. We support the FireSim flow to run BOOM at 90+ MHz on FPGAs on Amazon EC2 F1. Created at the University of California, Berkeley in the Berkeley Architecture Research group, its focus is to create a high performance, synthesizable, and parameterizable core for architecture research.
Features
| Feature | BOOM |
|---|---|
| ISA | RISC-V (RV64GC) |
| Synthesizable | √ |
| FPGA | √ |
| Parameterized | √ |
| Floating Point (IEEE 754-2008) | √ |
| Atomic Memory Op Support | √ |
| Caches | √ |
| Virtual Memory | √ |
| Boots Linux | √ |
| Privileged Arch v1.11 | √ |
| External Debug | √ |
Getting Started
To get started with RISC-V BOOM, you can find our microarchitectural documentation here, the GitHub organization here, and the mailing list here.