| Introduction to Freedom Metal |
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| What is Freedom Metal? |
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| Freedom Metal enables portable, bare-metal application development for all of |
| SiFive's RISC-V IP, FPGA evaluation targets, and development boards. |
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| Freedom Metal provides: |
| - A bare-metal C application environment |
| - An API for controlling CPU features and peripherals |
| - The ability to retarget to any SiFive RISC-V product |
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| This makes Freedom Metal suitable for: |
| - Writing portable hardware tests |
| - Bootstrapping bare metal application development |
| - A RISC-V hardware abstraction layer |
| - And more! |
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| How Do I Use Freedom Metal? |
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| The best way to get started writing applications with Freedom Metal is to use |
| the `SiFive Freedom E SDK`_ which bundles the build scripts and configuration |
| necessary to use Freedom Metal with SiFive's standard evaluation products. |
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| If you prefer working with an Integrated Development Environment (IDE), |
| `SiFive Freedom Studio`_ comes packaged with a prebuilt toolchain and the same |
| Freedom Metal examples from Freedom E SDK. |
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| .. _SiFive Freedom E SDK: |
| https://github.com/sifive/freedom-e-sdk |
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| .. _SiFive Freedom Studio: |
| https://www.sifive.com/boards#software |
