News

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

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

OSDDI: OpenRISC, Olof Kindgren

The OpenRISC processor has been around for a good number of years and it has found use in a NASA satellite and Samsung digital televisions, to name just two applications. In this instalment of Open Source Digital Design Insights, long time OpenRISC contributor and open source developer, Olof Kindgren, provides… 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

OSDDI: SHAKTI Processor, IIT Madras

This latest instalment of Open Source Digital Design Insights is once again from interviews filmed back at ORConf 2015 in Geneva, and this time on the RISC-V based SHAKTI processor from IIT Madras. A project that aims to build 6 processor variants that range from microcontroller up to… Read More

CRU: LoRaWAN fun, RISC-V education, FPGAs, and more

AB Open’s Andrew Back has written of our work on a LoRaWAN gateway for the region, installed on an iconic 275-feet tall landmark with intermittent power. Part of AB Open’s participation in the IoTUK Boost programme, the installation is designed to provide connectivity to The Things Network’s long-range… Read More

Open Source Digital Design Insights Interview with Javier Serrano, CERN

For the second video in the OSDDI series we have an interview with Javier Serrano, leader of the hardware and timing group at CERN, and a driving force behind many of their open source hardware initiatives. Read More

CRU: RISC-V Toolchains, Tiny PCBs, 6502-as-a-Service, and More

Developer Liviu Ionescu has published the results of RISC-V toolchain testing, comparing the GNU MCU Eclipse toolchain to the GCC-based toolchain from SiFive across four configurations. “After releasing GNU MCU Eclipse RISC-V Embedded GCC, I tested if the strategy used while building it is effective,” Liviu explains of his… Read More

CRU: RISC-V Calls for Papers, Industrial Hardware, Equipment Hacking, and More

Calls for papers have gone out for the 7th RISC-V Workshop and the first Workshop on Computer Architecture Research with RISC-V (CARRV), both to be held in the US later this year. The 7th RISC-V Workshop, its organisers have confirmed, is to take place on the 28th to the 30th… Read More

Microchip Technology Partners with AB Open for IoTUK Boost Programme

Halifax, West Yorkshire, 20th June 2017—Open-source and technical communities consultancy AB Open has announced a partnership with Microchip Technology Incorporated as part of the IoTUK Boost project launched by the Digital and Future Cities Catapults. Read More

Community Round-Up: RISC-V Progress, Amazon Greengrass, Wuthering Bytes and More

Developer Palmer Dabbelt has submitted a RISC-V port of glibc, the GNU C Library, for upstream inclusion and is actively working with others on a patch set for the Linux kernel with a view to mainline acceptance by Linux 4.14. While the open RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA) has… Read More

Community Round-Up: RISC-V Workshop Proceedings, Open Virtual Platforms, Cortus’ Core, Arduino Cinque, MinnowBoard Turbot, PIC32MZ with GPU, ARM Cortex-A75, Cortex-A55, Intel Compute Cards, Doubling PWM Resolution, and Gordon Williams on Open Source Challenges

The RISC-V Foundation has publicly published the proceedings of the 6th RISC-V Workshop, held early last month in Shanghai, China. Video and, where appropriate, slide decks have been made available from the three public days of the four-day event. Highlights include updates from Rick O’Connor and Yunsup… Read More

Community Round-Up: Sysmocom 3.5G Kit, Shrinking Linux, MIPS for Sale, Google’s Open Source Site and TPU Cloud, Signal/Power Isolation, Microsoft on IoT Security, and Kickstarter’s Hardware Studio

Open source cellular specialist Sysmocom has announced a limited-edition kit offering an all-in-one 3.5G cellular network with base station, femtocell, and ten pre-provisioned SIM cards. Offering an open platform and designed for everything from Internet of Things (IoT) network deployments to local or extended voice network coverage, the SysmoNITB 3.5G… Read More