RISC-V ISA is almost 15-year old and RISC-V hardware has been popping up regularly for a while. Until recently it was difficult to find a board with RISC-V Vector support, in particular ratified RVV 1.0 support (there have been a few earlier products with RVV 0.7 support but they are not compatible with the ratified version of the specification). This is changing and numerous RVV 1.0 boards have started to appear. In this post I am going to tell you about my initial experience using one of those RVV 1.0 boards: the Canaan Creative’s CanMV K230 board (released end of 2023).