Tag: FOSS

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Embedded.com’s Ville Baillie on Updating Embedded Linux

Embedded Design’s Ville Baillie is running a series on over-the-air updates for embedded Linux installations, a key feature of being able to keep Internet of Things (IoT) deployments functional and secure, with this week’s instalment looking at the currently-available off-the-shelf solutions. “Once an Embedded Linux product leaves the lab and… Read More

CRU: RISC-V Edge AI, microPlatforms, MQTT Woes, and More

AB Open is proud to confirm its sponsorship of ORConf 2018, the open-source digital design conference, to be held this year at the Gdansk University of Technology in Poland. Officially announced by the Free and Open Source Silicon (FOSSi) Foundation today, AB Open’s sponsorship follows our commitment in the… Read More

Foundries.io Launches Commercial Linux, Zephyr ‘microPlatforms’

Foundries.io, a start-up emerging from a two-year stealth period, has announced the release of what it claims to be “the world’s first commercially available, continuously updated Linux and Zephyr real-time operating system (RTOS) microPlatform distributions for the embedded, IoT, edge and automotive markets.” “Over the past two years we have… Read More

Zephyr Project RTOS Gets RISC-V Partners, Board Support

The Zephyr Project, which maintains an eponymous open-source real-time operating system (RTOS) for the Internet of Things (IoT) under The Linux Foundation, has announced partnerships with SiFive and Antmicro to add RISC-V support to the platform. “RISC-V is about creating open source platforms for the entire world to collaborate on,… Read More

Linux Kernel 4.18 Released, A Week Past Schedule

Linus Torvalds has officially released Linux 4.18, the latest version of the popular open-source kernel, following a week-long delay to fix networking and driver issues – including a problem with cryptographic operations on Arm architecture processors. Announced via the Linux Kernel Mailing List over the weekend, Linux 4.18 brings… Read More

Disclose.io Aims to Protect Security Researchers

A group of developers, lawyers, and security researchers have joined forces to launch disclose.io, an effort to produce a standardised framework for security disclosures which provide protections for good-faith researchers and the companies whose products they analyse. The field of security research can be a lucrative one: many companies offers… Read More

CRU: ORConf 2018, Quantum Education, KiCad 5.0, and More

An initial programme for ORConf 2018, the open-source digital design conference to be held in Gdansk, Poland this September, has been published – and there are some big names showing off the state of the art on the schedule. While there are more speakers yet to be announced, the initial… Read More

Initial ORConf 2018 Programme Published

IBM, Microsoft Release Quantum Computing Education Materials

IBM and Microsoft have begun efforts to develop the next generation of programming talent for the impending era of quantum computing, focusing on gamified core concepts and practical programming katas respectively. Unlike traditional computers, which – with some notable exceptions – use binary bits with an on-off state, quantum computers… Read More

Bootlin Announces Allwinner VPU Driver Completion

Bootlin has announced the delivery of all the main goals from its crowdfunding project to create an upstream-compatible open driver for the popular Allwinner visual processing unit (VPU) hardware found in many embedded designs. Funded via Kickstarter, the campaign by Bootlin engineer Maxime Ripard and intern Paul Kocialkowski saw… Read More

Open-Source KiCad EDA Hits Version 5.0.0

Popular open-source electronic design automation (EDA) package KiCad has hit its milestone 5.0.0 release, described by the team as “a new generation” of the software. “Almost a year after the release of KiCad 4.0.7, the KiCad development team is proud to present a new and improved KiCad 5.0 release,” the… Read More

CRU: RISC-V Security, LoRaWAN Tutorial, Fog Computing, and More

It’s been a busy fortnight for the open silicon, starting with the news that the RISC-V Foundation, the driving force behind the eponymous open processor architecture, has announced the formation of a security standing committee – and is asking for cooperation from the broader industry. “As the number of connected… Read More