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=== License

**BSD 3-Clause License**

Copyright (c) 2024, Stephan Nolting. All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that
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**The NEORV32 RISC-V Processor** +
https://github.com/stnolting/neorv32 +
Dipl.-Ing. (M.Sc.) Stephan Nolting +
🇪🇺 European Union, Germany +
stnolting@gmail.com
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=== Proprietary Notice

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=== Disclaimer

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=== Limitation of Liability for External Links

This document contains links to the websites of third parties ("external links"). As the content of these websites
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information of the linked websites is liable for the content and accuracy of the information provided. At the
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=== Citing

[NOTE]
This is an open-source project that is free of charge. Use this project in any way you like
(as long as it complies to the permissive license). Please cite it appropriately. 👍

.Contributors ❤️
[NOTE]
Please add as many https://github.com/stnolting/neorv32/graphs/contributors[contributors] as possible to the `author` field. +
This project would not be where it is without them.

.DOI
[TIP]
This project also provides a _digital object identifier_ provided by https://zenodo.org[zenodo]:
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5018888[image:https://zenodo.org/badge/DOI/10.5281/zenodo.5018888.svg[title='zenodo']]

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=== Acknowledgments

**A big shout-out to the community and all https://github.com/stnolting/neorv32/graphs/contributors[contributors],
who helped improving this project! ❤️**

https://riscv.org[RISC-V] - instruction sets want to be free!

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