This section contains guides and information found around the web that help OpenRISC users to get started more easily.

• Building a newlib toolchain which includes or1k-elf-gcc and or1k-elf-gdb.

Material for beginners to soft cores on FPGA:

• Sven-Åke Andersson has written a comprehensive blog on OpenRISC for newbies, which offers a guide to the complete design flow.

Guides to the toolchain:

• Jeremy Bennett. Embecosm Application Note 2. The OpenCores OpenRISC 1000 Simulator and Tool Chain: Installation Guide. Issue 3, November 2008.

SystemC interfaces:

• Jeremy Bennett. Embecosm Application Note 1. Building a Loosely Timed SoC Model with OSCI TLM 2.0: A Case Study Using an Open Source ISS and Linux 2.6 Kernel. Issue 2, May 2010.

Tutorials on how to implement OR1200 on Altera FPGA and Xilinx FPGA. Credits go to Resarch Group Digital Techniques, Hogeschool voor Wetenschap & Kunst, Campus de Nayer

• Altera HW tutorial PDF.
• Xilinx HW tutorial PDF.

Tutorials on how to implement OR1200 on Xilinx Spartan-6 FPGA.

• OpenRISC implemented on the Digilent Atlys board blog on OpenRISC for newbies

Tutorials on how to implement OR1200 on Xilinx and Altera FPGAs using MinSoC.

• MinSoC Tutorials openrisc on xilinx, minsoc.com start

Tutorials on compiling and running software in or1ksim:

• Simple C program compilation and execution from rte.se: Writing an application program

A Dynamic Reconfigurable OpenRISC Framework called Proteus : Proteus Framework