Tag: Event

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Call for Participation Opens for OSHCamp 2020 Talks, Workshops

The call for participation in the Open Source Hardware Camp (OSHCamp) 2020 has been placed – in the year which marks the Open Source Hardware User Group’s 10th anniversary. Taking place on Saturday the 29th and Sunday the 30th of August in Hebden Bridge Town Hall, West Yorkshire, OSHCamp 2020… Read More

CRU: RISC-V for Beginners, Sensors, and Browsers, MIPS Open Closes, and More

Bootlin’s Michael Opdenacker has published a guide to getting started with embedded Linux on RISC-V in just 40 minutes, as part of a presentation given during the Capitole du Libre 2019 event earlier this month. Building on a presentation first given at the Libre Software Meeting 2005, in which… Read More

The Things Network Announces The Things Conference 2020

The Things Network has announced what it promises will be the “world’s largest LoRaWAN event,” The Things Conference, to take place late January 2020 in Amsterdam. Designed for administrators of, users of, and those just interested in the community-driven The Things Network global LoRaWAN initiative as well as the LoRaWAN… Read More

Workshop on Open Source Design Automation (OSDA) 2020 Opens Call for Participation

The Workshop on Open Source Design Automation (OSDA), now on its second year, has announced a call for contributions with a deadline of the 12th of January 2020 – and is, as with the year before, taking place at the Conference on Design, Automation, and Test in Europe (DATE). “There… Read More

European Commission Publishes Final Open Source Beyond 2020 Agenda

The European Commission is to host the Open Source Beyond 2020 workshop on the future of open source hardware and software next week, featuring a panel on the advent of open source hardware and the Internet of Things chaired by the head of the Competitive Electronics Industry DG Connect A3… Read More

CRU: Next-Gen Wishbone, FOSSi Events, and FOSSi Hits the Cloud

The maintainers of the Wishbone interconnect specification are calling for input on its future evolution, after converting the specification into an editor-friendly format for ease of participation. Offering eight, 16, 32, and 64 bit widths and originally created by the Silicore Corporation before being released under a permissive licence, the… Read More

FOSDEM 2020 RISC-V Devroom Opens Call for Participation

The organisers of the RISC-V Devroom at the FOSDEM 2020 conference, taking place in Brussels this coming February, have opened the call for talk proposals. “FOSDEM 2020 will take place on February 1-2, 2020 in Brussels, Belgium. There will be a half day RISC-V developer’s room on February 1st (Saturday),”… Read More

VSDOpen 2019 Online Conference Scheduled for Saturday 19th October

VLSI System Design (VSD) has announced VSDOpen 2019, its second annual online conference for the semiconductor industry – with a focus on open-source electronics design automation (EDA) and the RISC-V instruction set architecture. Following the success of VSDOpen 2018, VLSI System Design has scheduled its second annual online conference –… Read More

CHIPS Alliance Announces Two-Day Open-Source Design Verification Workshop

CHIPS Alliance has opened registration for a two-day open-source design verification workshop, taking place on the 14th and 15th of November in Munich, Germany. Launched back in March, CHIPS Alliance is a Linux Foundation project focused on supporting the burgeoning free and open source silicon (FOSSi) movement. Its first… Read More

CRU: RISC-V Soft-Core Contest, Wuthering Bytes Programme, Plan 9 for Raspberry Pi, and More

The RISC-V Foundation, in partnership with Microchip Technology and Thales, has announced its second soft-core CPU competition – time time focusing on security. Following on from its first soft-core CPU contest late last year, the RISC-V Foundation has announced its second. Where the first focused on performance and smart… Read More

FOSSi Foundation Announces ORConf Three-Month Countdown

The Free and Open Source Silicon (FOSSi) Foundation has announced the three-month countdown to ORConf, the conference for anyone interested in open-source silicon and the tool chains behind it. “ORConf is in its 8th year of bringing the open source silicon community together for a weekend of presentations, ideas and… Read More

RISC-V Foundation Finalises Schedule for RISC-V Workshop Zurich

The RISC-V Foundation has released the agenda for its RISC-V Workshop Zurich, to be held on the 11th-13th of June as part of the larger Week of Open Source Hardware (WOSH). Following its call for speakers, which closed back in February, the RISC-V Foundation has firmed up the schedule… Read More