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PULP Platform Partners with GreenWaves, Bitcraze for RISC-V AI Drone Controller

The Parallel Ultra-Low Power (PULP) Platform has announced a partnership between ETH Zurich, Greenwaves Technology, and Bitcraze to develop a PULP-powered and wireless artificial intelligence module for drone use: the AI Deck. Based on the earlier PULP-Shield, built as part of the PULP-DroNet project, the AI Shield is designed to… Read More

OpenPiton+Ariane Workshops Scheduled for WOSH, ISCA in June

The OpenPiton project has announced a pair of workshops centred around its OpenPiton+Ariane platform, taking place in Zurich during the Week of Open Source Hardware (WOSH) and Arizona as part of International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA). Created in partnership with the Parallel Ultra-Low Power (PULP) Platform, OpenPiton+Ariane combines… Read More

Seeed Studio Opens Pre-Orders for RISC-V-based Grove AI HAT Board

Seeed Studio has begun taking pre-orders for its Grove AI HAT for Edge Computing, an artificial intelligence-focused accelerator add-on for the Raspberry Pi which is based on the RISC-V Kendryte K210 processor. Based on the Sipeed MAIX M1 module, a development board for which the company crowdfunded late last… Read More

The CHIPS Alliance Announces Inaugural Workshop Agenda

The CHIPS Alliance, a Linux Foundation-backed consortium for free and open source silicon (FOSSi) efforts, has announced in inaugural workshop for the 19th of June at Google’s Sunnyvale, California facility. Launched back in March, the CHIPS Alliance includes among its founding members Google, Western Digital, Esperanto, and SiFive, all… Read More

Gentoo Linux Announces Experimental RISC-V Support

The Gentoo Linux distribution has announced initial, experimental support for the free and open RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA). “After some preparations, we’re happy to announce (initially experimental) support for a new arch: riscv,” writes Andreas Huettel in the gentoo-dev mailing list. “The keyword is ‘~riscv’; no stable keyword… Read More

Researchers Turn to RISC-V for High-Security Morpheus Processor Design

Researchers from the University of Michigan have announced a new RISC-V processor design with a strong focus on security, using ‘churn’ to keep attackers from exploiting vulnerabilities. “Today’s approach of eliminating security bugs one by one is a losing game,” claims Todd Austin, professor of computer science and engineering at… Read More

CRU: Fieldbus in Linux, FPGA SweRV Core, Wuthering Bytes Tickets, and More

Linux 5.2, the upcoming release of the open source kernel, is to receive an official subsystem for the Fieldbus networking protocol family – bringing built-in support for the monitoring and control of industrial equipment. Spotted by Michael Larabel on the Linux news site Phoronix, the Fieldbus subsystem has been… Read More

Wuthering Bytes Early Bird Tickets Now Available as Festival Day Talks Confirmed

The first five talks for the Wuthering Bytes Festival Day, to take place in Hebden Bridge on the 30th of August 2019, have now been confirmed – along with an attendee gift kindly supplied by electronics studio Boldport. Produced by AB Open as part of its contribution to the… Read More

Semtech Launches Free LoRaWAN Academy Educational Resource

Analogue and mixed-signal semiconductor specialist Semtech has announced the full launch of the LoRaWAN Academy, offering free educational modules for everyone from students through to large enterprises looking to develop wireless Internet of Things (IoT) applications. “Developers are the most important part of any modern technology platform, and the LoRaWAN… Read More

QEMU 4.0.0 Brings New RISC-V Features

Version 4.0.0 of the QEMU emulator has been released, bringing with it new features for those working with the RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA). Designed to allow a system to run code designed for a different instruction set, emulation via QEMU or a similar package is a key part of… Read More

Linux 5.2 to get Fieldbus Subsystem for Real-Time Industrial Systems

Dover Microsystems Details Shift to Open-Source Renode Framework

Dover Microsystems’ Greg Sullivan has written of how Antmicro’s open-source Renode development framework has considerably decreased the length of his company’s design cycle – showcasing why the framework is becoming increasingly popular. Built with embedded platforms and the Internet of Things (IoT) in mind, Renode allows for the execution, debugging,… Read More