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UK Open Source Awards 2019 Call for Nominations Opens

Open UK, a membership organisation dedicated to promoting and supporting the use of free and open source standards and software in the UK, has announced a call for nominations for the UK Open Source Awards 2019. “The awards have happened five times in the last 10 years, but not since… Read More

CRU: Season of Docs, Hardware Compression IP, a SweRV Deep-Dive, and More

Google has announced a new programme, designed to run alongside the Google Summer of Code, through which it aims to improve the quality of documentation in open source projects: the Season of Docs. Google’s Summer of Code (GSoC) is a popular programme through which student developers are partnered with mentor… Read More

Microsoft Opens Zipline Hardware-Implementable Compression Algorithm

Microsoft’s cloud computing division, Azure, has announced the release of its hardware-implementable compression algorithm Project Zipline under a permissive licence, as part of the Open Compute project (OCP). “Microsoft’s Project Zipline compression algorithm yields dramatically better results, up to 2X high compression ratios versus the commonly used Zlib-L4 64KB model,”… Read More

Google Announces Season of Docs Open Source Documentation Programme

CRU: Amazon, Imagination Bet on RISC-V, Google Targets Edge Acceleration, and More

Amazon has announced that it has added support for the RISC-V open instruction set architecture (ISA) to the MIT-licensed FreeRTOS real-time operating system kernel. “RISC-V is a free and open ISA that was designed to be simple, extensible, and easy to implement. The simplicity of the RISC-V model, coupled with… Read More

FuseSoC 1.9.1 Brings Improved, Sphinx-Generated Documentation

Olof Kindgren has announced the release of FuseSoC 1.9.1, and it brings with it improved documentation produced using the Sphinx Python Documentation Generator. Having a useful end product should be the primary goal of all open-source projects, but it shouldn’t be viewed as the only goal: no matter how useful… Read More

Linux Kernel 5.0 Launches with New RISC-V Features, Fixes

Linus Torvalds has announced the release of Linux 5.0, the latest version of the Linux kernel, and once again it pulls in a range of improvements and new features for the RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA). Linux has boasted support for the open RISC-V ISA for a while, now, to… Read More

Amazon Adds RISC-V Support to FreeRTOS Kernel

CRU: Open ISA Events, New RISC-V & LoRaWAN Parts, IoT Regulation, and More

AB Open’s Andrew Back has published a piece on building a personal computer based on the RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA), using a custom-designed housing containing a SiFive HiFive Unleashed development board and Microsemi Expansion Board. “While it’s clear that the most significant opportunities for RISC-V will be in democratising… Read More

SiFive HiFive1 Board, Courtesy of SiFive

CRU: Wuthering Bytes 2019 Planning, SweRV RISC-V Released, and More

AB Open is pleased to announce a call for participation (CFP) in Wuthering Bytes, the annual community technology festival it produces, seeking those interested in hosting a talk, workshop, roundtable, or other event between Friday the 30th of August and Sunday the 8th of September. Wuthering Bytes — produced by… Read More

RISC-V Foundation Announces OpenSBI 0.1 Release

An initial implementation of an open supervisor binary interface (SBI) for RISC-V, imaginatively dubbed OpenSBI v0.1, has been released with support for the HiFive Unleashed, Kendryte K210-based development boards, and QEMU virtual machines. “OpenSBI is an open source implementation of the RISC-V Supervisor Binary Interface (SBI). SBI serves a critical… Read More

Semtech Releases Open-Source LoRaWAN Gateway Software

Semtech has announced the release of an open-source packet-forwarder protocol designed for LoRa-connected gateways, and it has partnered with The Things Industries to integrate it into 700 miniature gateways to be distributed at The Things Conference this weekend. “Semtech’s LoRa Technology is enabling the devices, networks and applications (DNA) of… Read More