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 # riscv-wally
 Configurable RISC-V Processor
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+Wally is a 5-stage pipelined processor configurable to support all the standard RISC-V options, incluidng RV32/64, A, C, F, D, and M extensions, FENCE.I, and the various privileged modes and CSRs.  It is written in SystemVerilog.  It passes the RISC-V Arch Tests and Imperas tests.  As of October 2021, it boots the first 10 million instructions of Buildroot Linux.
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