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SiFive Freedom E310 processor

The latest on developments at AB Open and across the wider community.

Getting Started with the HiFive Unleashed

Creating a new bootable Micro SD card, building a custom Poky Linux system, and running Debian on the world’s first RISC-V-based, Linux-capable development board. The HiFive Unleashed was unveiled back at FOSDEM only a matter of months ago and so, unsurprisingly, it’s still relatively early days for Linux… Read More
Bob Pease eBooks

Electronic Design Publishes Free Bob Pease eBooks

Electronic Design has announced the publication of two free eBooks collecting reader-favourite articles from analogue integrated circuit designer Bob Pease, who passed away in 2011. “It’s hard to believe so many years have passed since the analogue industry lost one of its most highly respected gurus, Bob Pease,” Electronic Design… Read More

Osmocom Conference 2018 CfP

Talk submissions are sought for annual conference of family of projects for open source mobile communications. The venerable Osmocom family of open source projects span technologies ranging from GNU Radio blocks that support a variety of hardware platforms, to TETRA and GEO Mobile Radio implementations, through to 2, 2.5… Read More
Intel OpenVINO

Intel Launches OpenVINO Computer Vision Toolkit

Intel has announced the launch of the OpenVINO toolkit, a visual inference and neural network optimisation engine designed with vision-based Internet of Things (IoT) development in mind. “The OpenVINO toolkit is designed to enable users to fast-track development of high-performance computer vision applications, unleash deep learning inference capabilities across the… Read More

Unique Circumference Datacentre-in-a-Box Clusters hit Crowd Supply

Halifax, UK, 18thMay 2018 —Open-source and technical communities consultancy AB Open and its hardware division Ground Electronics have launch a campaign for Circumference, a family of custom-designed desktop cluster computing units based around the popular Raspberry Pi and UDOO x86 single-board computer families. Available to pre-order now on crowdfunding… Read More
Network Switch with Cables

IEEE to Host Webinar on Resilient Networks for the IIoT

IEEE Spectrum, the magazine of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, has announced a webinar discussing the deployment of resilient network architectures for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), to take place in June. “A resilient, holistic network architecture can help create the secure, scalable and robust infrastructure needed… Read More