Tag: FOSSi

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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

RISC-V Foundation’s SSC Calls on Big Data, Defence Companies

RISC-V Foundation director Ted Speers has offered up more details on the organisations he would like to see involved in the recently-announced Security Standing Committee. Announced earlier this month by executive director Rick O’Connor, the RISC-V Foundation’s Security Standing Committee came with a request: “[A] call to action for… Read More

Initial ORConf 2018 Programme Published

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

Rattled Arm Launches Anti-RISC-V Marketing Campaign

The growing impetus behind the free and open source silicon (FOSSi) RISC-V project appears to have industry incumbents rattled, with Arm launching an aggressive marketing campaign which attempts to sow the seeds of doubt in engineers’ minds about the ISA’s benefits versus Arm’s own proprietary intellectual property (IP). Following the… Read More

OnChip Teases Itsy-Chipsy Call for Participation

Open silicon specialist OnChip has promised to launch a call for participation in its Itsy-Chipsy low-cost semiconductor manufacturing facility, and is already receiving interesting suggestions from potential users. Announced back in April, Itsy-Chipsy aims to allow smaller companies and hobbyists to produce application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) for as little… Read More

Renode 1.4 Brings HiFive Unleashed, Freedom E310 Support

Renode, Antmicro’s virtual development tool for multinode embedded networks, has received support for SiFive’s Freedom E310 and HiFive Unleashed development boards. “Renode was created based on many years of experience with the development of software for embedded systems – both for gateways, on-board computers as well as sensor nodes and… Read More

RISC-V Foundation Forms Security Standing Committee

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 devices grows exponentially and new security vulnerabilities like Meltdown and Spectre emerge, it’s become… Read More

CRU: Open Silicon, LoRa Growth, LPWA-CB, and More

RISC-V pioneers OnChip and SiFive have separately announced new microcontroller chip designs, taking aim at the low-power sensor market with their own takes on the open architecture. In a message to social networking service Twitter, OnChip revealed a RISC-V microcontroller design described as having always-on features, three power states… Read More

OnChip, SiFive Announce New RISC-V Microcontroller Cores

OpenPiton Research Processor Reaches Release 7

The team behind the OpenPiton Open Source Research Processor project has announced Release 7, bringing with it a range of improvements designed to make it easier to implement. Built on top of the open-source OpenSPARC processor, created in 2006 when Sun Microsystems released RTL code for its UltraSPARC T1 processor,… Read More

CRU: York’s LoRaWAN Plan, HiFive Unleashed Unleashed, and More

First unveiled back at FOSDEM, the SiFive HiFive Unleashed Linux-compatible RISC-V development board heralds an exciting time in the world of free and open source silicon – and AB Open’s Andrew Back has been working with one. “It’s great that we now have a Linux capable development board for 64-bit… Read More