Author: Andrew Back

Andrew Back has in excess of 20 years industry experience that spans IT infrastructure, telecommunications and electronics, and covering R&D through to architecture, strategy and governance.

LibreCores launches El Correo Libre Newsletter

LibreCores launch newsletter for the free and open source silicon community, with news on everything from personal projects, through to research and industry developments. The inaugural edition of the El Correo Libre newsletter was published today and features news items on Google Summer of Code 2018, TinyFPGA, the 4th generation… Read More

Solderpad Hardware Licence Gets New Release

Version 2.0 release of Solderpad Hardware Licence is simplified and presented as a wraparound to the Apache 2.0 software license. The Solderpad Hardware Licence is based upon the popular Apache 2.0 software license, which in contrast to simpler permissive software licences such as BSD and MIT, provides greater clarity… Read More

ORConf 2018 Announced

The Free and Open Source Silicon Foundation has announced that ORConf 2018 will be held over the weekend of September 21st to 23rd in Gdansk, Poland. Now in its seventh year, ORConf is a free to attend conference for open source digital, semiconductor and embedded systems design engineers. Read More