Tag: FOSSi

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Eideticom Ports P2PDMA Offload Patches to RISC-V

Eidetic Communications’ chief technology officer Stephen Bates has announced initial support for peer-to-peer direct memory access (P2PDMA) on the RISC-V instruction set architecture, showing a 2.8GB/s throughput between controllers. Designed to address the bottleneck between high-speed PCI Express (PCIe) devices and the CPU, P2PDMA allows for data transfer to occur… Read More

CRU: FOSSi Growth Scares Arm, Verilator 4.0 Launched, and More

Storage giant Western Digital has published full instructions for building the Gnome Desktop variant of the Fedora Linux distribution for RISC-V, targeting the SiFive HiFive Unleashed development board. As part of Western Digital’s push to ship more than a billion RISC-V cores per year, as it moves away from… Read More

Arm Offers Free-as-in-Beer Cortex IP to Combat FOSSi Threat

Cambridge-based processor giant Arm has telegraphed increasing concern regarding the threat from free and open source silicon (FOSSi) cores, offering engineers access to free-as-in-beer Cortex-M intellectual property (IP) in an attempt to keep them within its own ecosystem. That interest in free and open source silicon (FOSSi) has been growing… Read More

Embecosm's Buildroot RISC-V Patch Set in Action

Embecosm’s Mark Corbin Adds RISC-V Support to Buildroot

Buildroot, a tool for easily generating complete Linux system images for embedded platforms through cross-compilation, has announced official support for the open RISC-V instruction set architecture following the merging of a patch set by Embecosm’s Mark Corbin. Merged into the Buildroot source this weekend, as confirmed on the project’s… Read More

Western Digital's Fedora on RISC-V Demonstration

Western Digital Releases Fedora Desktop on RISC-V Tutorial

Wilson Snyder Officially Launches Verilator 4.0 at ORConf 2018

Project maintainer Wilson Snyder formally announced Verilator 4.0 at the ORConf open silicon event this weekend, following a month’s beta-testing of the popular Verilog hardware description language (HDL) simulator. Originally developed in 1994 by a Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) Core Logic Group team led by Paul Wasson for the conversion… Read More

Ground Electronics' SiFive HiFive Unleashed Case

CRU: RISC-V Hits Consumer Products, GSM Freed, Festival of Maintenance, and More

Huami, a subsidiary of Chinese electronics specialist Xiaomi, has announced a new family of smartwatches and fitness wearables, and in doing so is set to become the first company to bring a product based on the open RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA) to the consumer market. Announced by Huami at… Read More

Huami Announces RISC-V Based Fitness Wearables, Smartwatch

PULP Platform Announces RISC-V HERO Heterogeneous Research Platform

The Parallel Ultra-Low Power (PULP) Platform team has announced the release of its latest creation: HERO, the open heterogeneous research platform combining an FPGA-based RISC-V many-core accelerator with an Arm Cortex-A host processor. “HERO combines a PULP-based open-source parallel many-core accelerator implemented on FPGA with a hard ARM Cortex-A multicore… Read More

Western Digital's Martin Fink and Steffen Hellmold

Western Digital CTO: RISC-V Offers “A Clean Sheet of Paper”

Western Digital has released a short video discussing how the open RISC-V instruction set architecture is changing its vision for data processing, as it pledges to ship billions of RISC-V cores in its future products. Western Digital had previously pledged support for the open RISC-V instruction set architecture with the… Read More

CRU: Vintage FOSSi, ORConf 2018, Tink Cryptography, and More

Chips4Makers has officially launched a crowdfunding campaign to produce the Retro-uC, an open-silicon microcontroller capable of acting as a Zilog Z80, MOS Technologies 6502, or Motorola M68K microprocessor. “I am delighted to announce that the Retro-uC crowdsupply campaign has now been launched. It has taken a little longer to straighten… Read More

Gdansk University of Technology, by Krzysztof Krzempek (CC-BY-SA 3.0)

ORConf 2018 Programme Finalised, Western Digital Confirmed as Headline Sponsor

The finalised programme for ORConf, the open-source digital design conference organised by the Free and Open Source Silicon (FOSSi) Foundation, has been published ahead of the event’s opening later this month – and with it the news that storage giant Western Digital has become the headline sponsor. Scheduled for the… Read More