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The Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) project, the initial standard for which AB Open’s Andrew Back acted as a contributor, has released the latest version of its SPDX Licence List – and it now includes open hardware licences. Made for ease of reference and to simplify identification of licences and… Read More

Calista Redmond, newly-appointed chief executive of the RISC-V Foundation, has highlighted the organisation’s key priorities for accelerating adoption and deployment of the open instruction set architecture (ISA) and related technologies. “With the significant uptick in RISC-V adoption over the past few years, the RISC-V Foundation Technical Committee has made it… Read More

Wave Computing has made the first public release under its MIPS Open initiative, announced back in December 2018, though its licence terms lag behind competitors like RISC-V. Following the sale of MIPS by Imagination Technologies, new owner Wave Computing came up with a plan to boost the popularity of… Read More

The LLVM project has announced the release of LLVM 8.0.0, which brings with it a wealth of new features including the first support for the open RISC-V architecture in the lld linker. Released this week, LLVM 8.0.0 includes a range of enhancements to the compiler and toolchain collection. “This release… Read More

Open UK, a membership organisation dedicated to promoting and supporting the use of free and open source standards and software in the UK, has announced a call for nominations for the UK Open Source Awards 2019. “The awards have happened five times in the last 10 years, but not since… Read More

The Parallel Ultra-Low Power (PULP) Platform has announced that Silicon Labs has adopted the platform to extend and customise embedded processor cores in their integrated circuit designs. Now approaching its sixth year, having been launched by Luca Benini at the University of Bologna back in May 2013, the PULP Platform’s… Read More