Tag: FOSS

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RISC-V Foundation, Linux Foundation Join Forces for a “New Era of Open Architecture”

The RISC-V Foundation and the Linux Foundation have announced a joint initiative which they claim will “enable a new era of open architecture” and “accelerate open source development and adoption of the RISC-V ISA [Instruction Set Architecture].” “With the rapid international adoption of the RISC-V ISA, we need increased scale… Read More

OPRECOMP Offers Funding for Open-Source Transprecision Computing Projects

Frank Gurkaynak, director of the Microelectronics Design Centre at ETZ Zürich, has announced a 2019 “summer of code” programme that will see a selection of open-source project proposals granted up to €6,000 in funding as part of the Open Transprecision Computing (PRECOMP) project. “First of all, what is Transprecision computing?… Read More

CRU: RISC-V Security, GraphQL Foundation, lowRISC 0.6, and More

Esperanto Technologies, a company focused on developing energy-efficient many-core accelerators for artificial intelligence and machine learning applications, has announced the closure of a whopping $58 million in Series B funding – more than 10 times its previous investment rounds combined. “Despite still operating largely in stealth mode, we appreciate this… Read More

Hex Five, Andes, Gowin Collaborate on MultiZone Security Implementation

Hex Five Security, Andes Technology, and Gowin Semiconductor have jointly announced a collaboration which will see the former’s trusted execution environment added to the middle’s N(X)25 RISC-V cores on the latter’s GW-2A field programmable gate array (FPGA) family. “The cost of a robust security implementation on RISC-V is now negligible… Read More

The Linux Foundation Launches GraphQL Foundation

The Linux Foundation has announced the launch of a new sub-organisation, the GraphQL Foundation, to support the application programming interface (API) query language developed by Facebook and released under an open-source licence in 2015. “As one of GraphQL’s co-creators, I’ve been amazed and proud to see it grow in adoption… Read More

RISC-V AI Accelerator Specialist Esperanto Closes $58m Funding Round

CRU: RISC-V Grows Apace, RTOS Vulnerabilities Patched, and More

The IIT Madras SHAKTI Project has celebrated a major milestone this month: the first boot of a RISC-V processor both designed and manufactured within its native India. Launched in 2014 with a focus on IBM’s Power instruction set architecture (ISA) before switching to the open-source RISC-V ISA, the Shakti Project… Read More

OpenStack Foundation Issues First StarlingX Edge Computing Release

The OpenStack Foundation, in partnership with Wind River and Intel, has released a new open-source edge computing platform aimed at, among others, low-latency Internet of Things (IoT) applications: StarlingX. “When it comes to edge, it is crucial to be able to blend together and manage all the virtual machine and… Read More

Zimperium Warns of Critical FreeRTOS Vulnerabilities

Security researcher Ori Karliner, of Zimperium’s zLabs, has warned of a range of vulnerabilities in the popular open-source FreeRTOS real-time operating system kernel – and with remote code execution possible, developers using the platform are urged to patch. Made available under the MIT Licence, FreeRTOS supports a wide range of… Read More

CRU: RISC-V Design Contest, Radio Spectrum Harmisation, Mbed Linux, and More

The RISC-V Foundation has announced the launch of a design contest, in partnership with Google, Antmicro, and Microchip, which will see entrants competing to build the smallest and fastest RISC-V soft core implementations on field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). One of the biggest benefits of free and open source silicon (FOSSi)… Read More

DeepMind Releases Open-Source TRFL Reinforcement Learning Library

British artificial intelligence specialist DeepMind Technologies, acquired by Google parent company Alphabet in 2014, has announced the release of a library of building blocks for reinforcement learning in machine intelligence: TRFL. The TRFL library, pronounced “truffle”, is described by the company as “a collection of key algorithmic components that we… Read More

Clifford Wolf launches Yosys Open Synthesis Suite 0.8

Developer Clifford Wolf has announced the release of Yosys 0.8, the latest version of the popular open synthesis suite framework, bringing with it a range of new improvements and bug fixes. Designed to ease register-transfer level (RTL) development, analysis, and formal verification for projects written in the Verilog hardware description… Read More