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A Closer Look at the SiFive RISC-V Rack Cluster

SiFive collaborated with AB Open to create a rack-mount RISC-V cluster based around the SiFive HiFive Unmatched developer platform for compute and a SiFive HiFive1 Rev. B development board for control. In this article we take a closer look at the design of the cluster and consider some of the… Read More

Ten Years of Open Source Hardware

This week marks the tenth anniversary of the inaugural meeting of the Open Source Hardware User Group (OSHUG). As such it seemed only appropriate to take a look back over the past decade at not only the history of OSHUG, but some of the history and the future of open hardware also. Read More

Building a RISC-V PC

How we assembled a RISC-V desktop computer. (video at the bottom of this post.) While it’s clear that the most significant opportunities for RISC-V will be in democratising custom silicon for accelerating specific tasks and enabling new applications — and it’s already driving a renaissance in novel computer architectures, for… Read More
Dr. Graham Markall at OSHCamp 2017

OSHCamp 2017 Videos Now Available

We’re pleased to announce that talks from the Open Source Hardware Camp (OSHCamp) 2017 are now available on the AB Open YouTube channel, covering topics from the RISC-V instruction set and machine learning for embedded systems through to the BBC micro:bit and garden automation. Recorded during OSHCamp 2017, the annual… Read More