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

Rambus Announces RISC-V CryptoManager Security Core

Rambus has become the latest company to adopt the open RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA), using its openness as the basis for a new embedded and Internet of Things (IoT) security core dubbed the CryptoManager Root of Trust. “The fundamental pillars of architectural design freedom, secure processing siloed away from… Read More

OsmocomBB Open-GSM Mobile Baseband Fernvale Port in Progress

The team behind postmarketOS has written of initial progress in porting OsmocomBB, an open GSM mobile baseband, to more modern and readily-available hardware – paving the way to a fully open GSM stack running on a mobile handset. “There is already a free software implementation of a GSM baseband called… Read More

Qualcomm Launches Vision Intelligence Platform, 10nm SoCs

Qualcomm has announced the launch of a new family of Internet of Things (IoT) focused system-on-chips (SoC) with embedded image signal processing and artificial intelligence capabilities, the first in a new range of parts for what it calls the Qualcomm Vision Intelligence Platform. “Our goal is to make IoT devices… Read More

Arm NN White Paper Points to Embedded AI Future

Arm’s Robert Elliot and Mark O’Conner have published a white paper on the company’s Arm NN machine learning platform and its optimisations for use on low-power embedded devices. “We expect machine learning to become a natural part of programming environments, with tiny embedded neural networks being part of program execution,”… Read More

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CRU: Open Cellular, RISC-V Progress, Mbed LoRaWAN, and More

AB Open’s Andrew Back has published a look back at how the world of open source cellular networking has changed over the last six years, including the growth of the Osmocom project. “As exquisitely arcane as it may seem to the uninitiated, cellular infrastructure is very much within the… Read More

Debian Linux Receives Official 64-bit RISC-V Port

The Debian Linux distribution now has an official 64-bit RISC-V bootstrap in its ports infrastructure, allowing packages to be easily downloaded for use on the growing number of RISC-V devices on the market. “We’ve been working in the last few weeks to do a (second) bootstrap of Debian for RISC-V,… Read More

Arm Adds LoRaWAN Stack to Mbed OS 5.8

Arm’s Jan Jongboom has announced the addition of a LoRaWAN stack to Mbed OS, as one of the new features added to the latest Mbed OS 5.8 release. “Arm is heavily invested in advancing the LoRaWAN standard. We’re an an active member of the LoRa alliance, and we were… Read More

Linux Kernel 4.16 Released with Arm, RISC-V Fixes

Linus Torvalds, creator and maintainer of the Linux kernel, has officially released Linux 4.16 – and, despite the announcement taking place on April Fool’s Day, it’s no joke. “So the take from final week of the 4.16 release looks a lot like rc7 [release candidate 7], in that about half… Read More

Arm, Nvidia Partner for IoT Deep-Learning

Low-power processor specialist Arm and high-performance processor specialist Nvidia have announced a partnership to bring deep-learning technology to Internet of Things (IoT) devices through dedicated hardware acceleration. As part of Arm’s Project Trillium initiative on machine learning, the company has joined forces with Nvidia to integrate its Deep… Read More

GNU Tools Cauldron Comes to Manchester (UK) in September

Annual conference for developers of the GNU Toolchain to be hosted at University of Manchester from the 7th through to 9th September 2018. The GNU Tools Cauldron is an annual fixture in the calendar of developers of GCC, GDB, binutils and runtimes etc. Having previously been hosted at venues including… Read More

Six Years of Progress in Open Source Mobile Infrastructure

A look at open source cellular progress over the past six years and more recent developments which suggest that a bright future lays ahead. Six years ago today The H – Open published an article I wrote entitled, Building a GSM network with open source. In this I covered… Read More

CRU: Circumference, the Pi 3 B+, El Correo Libre, SDR, and More

Ground Electronics, AB Open’s manufacturing division, today unveils a new “datacentre-in-a-box” platform targeting software development, testing, and education: the Raspberry Pi-powered Circumference. Presented to the public for the first time today ahead of a crowdfunding campaign launch in the coming weeks, Circumference is designed to offer all the functionality of… Read More