Category: Community

Get the latest news on developments in the wider community and topics including wireless, embedded and open source silicon.

LimeSDR-Mini Crowdfunding Campaign Closes at 250%

The LimeSDR-Mini crowdfunding campaign reached its $100,000 goal some weeks ago and earlier this week it drew to a close at 250% funded. We may be a little biased — having worked on a number of demos using a prototype of the diminutive SDR board — but it’s hard… Read More

Arm Mbed, The Things Network LoRaWAN Webinar

Arm Announces Mbed, Things Network LoRaWAN webinar

Arm’s Mbed division has announced a webinar offering a getting started guide to using the LoRaWAN long-range low-power radio standard via The Things Network, scheduled for the 29th of November. Hosted by Jan Jongboom and Johan Stokking, the principle applications engineer and developer evangelist for Internet of Things (IoT) at… Read More

SiFive adds Flex Logix eFPGAs to DesignShare

RISC-V pioneer SiFive has announced that Flex Logix is adding its EFLX embedded field-programmable gate array (FPGA) to the DesignShare platform, adding yet another string to the ecosystem’s system-on-chip (SoC) design bow. “There is a critical need in the chip industry to provide a faster, cheaper way for innovative companies… Read More

Linux Foundation Launches Community Data Licence

The Linux Foundation has announced the launch of the Community Data Licence Agreement (CDLA), which it claims makes it easier for organisations and individuals to share, analyse, and use data collaboratively. “An open data license is essential for the frictionless sharing of the data that powers both critical technologies and… Read More

FireSim Brings RISC-V to Amazon’s AWS Platform

Researchers at the University of California at Berkeley RISE Lab have released FireSim, an open-source cloud instance of RocketChip RISC-V processors running on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform. “FPGA-accelerated hardware simulation is by no means a new concept. However, previous attempts to use FPGAs for simulation have been fraught… Read More

Microsemi Launches Mi-V Ecosystem

Microsemi has announced it is to help push RISC-V adoption through Mi-V, a new ecosystem which gives those developing on the open architecture full tier-one vendor support from the top down. “As a leader in RISC-V, we are pleased Microsemi is the first tier one vendor to build out a… Read More

CRU: LMS8001 Companion, Security Alerts, 14nm RISC-V, and More

The LimeSDR open-source software defined radio (SDR) project has received a boost, quite literally, in the form of the frequency-extending LMS8001 Companion Board, announced as part of the LimeSDR Mini crowdfunding campaign. Built around a Lime Microsystems LMS8001 frequency shifter chip, the Companion Board allows any LimeSDR module –… Read More

CRU: Floods, RISC-V for Linux, Iron-Scopes and More

AB Open has announced a partnership with Flood Network to bring a series of Internet of Things (IoT) river level sensors to the Upper Calder Valley, providing valuable flood warning data for the region. Joining the users of the Things Calderdale LoRaWAN network, the flood sensors are to… Read More

CRU: RISC-V Growth, Job Vacancies, and More

Cambridge-based semiconductor specialist UltraSoC has announced its expansion into Bristol, and it’s giving credit for its recent growth to an explosion of interest in the open-source RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA). “There’s a perfect storm of factors revolutionising the technology business from top to bottom,” says Rupert Baines, UltraSoC’s… Read More

CRU: LoRa Bat Watching, RISC-V Updates, Neural Networks, and More

AB Open’s Andrew Back has written up a project to create a bat detector with LoRaWAN connectivity, transmitting data on bat call measurements via The Things Network using MQTT. “When ODI Leeds recently said that they were interested in LoRaWAN-enabled bat detection, we thought, ‘What a fun idea, let’s… Read More

CRU: ORConf Countdown, RISC-V News, LoRa Sniffing, and More

We’re now just two weeks away from this year’s ORConf, of which AB Open is a proud sponsor, which is taking place on the 8th through to the 10th of September as part of the Wuthering Bytes technology festival programme in Hebden Bridge, and the list of talks… Read More

Wuthering Bytes 2017

With Gareth on vacation there’s no Community Round-Up this fortnight, so I thought I’d take the opportunity to provide a rundown on what we have in store for the annual Wuthering Bytes technology festival — running over 10 days again! — that will get off to a start in… Read More