For quite a while I have followed the RISC-V ISA with growing intereset. Now that RISC-V is becoming more and more popular and catching a lot of public attention, it is time to get my hands dirty with some low level RISC-V assembly coding.
Tag: programming
The Longan Nano is a new contestor in the area of affordable RISC-V development boards. The Longan Nano’s form factor and price puts it up against the Arduino Nano and all other varieties of STM32-based “nano boards”, which can be found abundantly on Ebay and AliExpress.
When tasked with the implementation of a rather complex function, e.g. a polynomial of higher order, the resource utilization quickly shoots through the roof if implemented straight forward (also called the naïve implementation).
To avoid this it is often easier, simpler and faster to use a lookup table (LUT) solution.
For the STM32 family of microcontrollers a number of different support libaries are available: Cortex Microcontroller Software Interface Standard (CMSIS), Standard Peripheral Library (SPL), Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL).
