HiFive1

Overview

The HiFive1 is an Arduino-compatible development board with an FE310-G000 RISC-V SoC.

SiFive HiFive1 board (image courtesy of SiFive)

Programming and debugging

The hifive1 board supports the runners and associated west commands listed below.

	flash	debug	debugserver	rtt	attach	robot	simulate
hifive1	✅ (default)
openocd	✅	✅ (default)	✅	✅	✅
renode							✅
renode-robot						✅

Building

Applications for the HiFive1 board configuration can be built as usual (see Building an Application) using the corresponding board name:

west build -b hifive1

Flashing

In order to upload the application to the device, you’ll need OpenOCD with RISC-V support. Download the tarball for your OS from the SiFive website and extract it.

The Zephyr SDK uses a bundled version of OpenOCD by default. You can overwrite that behavior by adding the -DOPENOCD=<path/to/riscv-openocd/bin/openocd> parameter when building:

west build -b hifive1 -- -DOPENOCD=<path/to/riscv-openocd/bin/openocd>

When using a custom toolchain it should be enough to have the downloaded version of the binary in your PATH.

Now you can flash the application as usual (see Building an Application and Run an Application for more details):

west flash

Depending on your OS you might have to run the flash command as superuser.

Debugging

Refer to the detailed overview about Application Debugging.