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CRU: Open Cellular, RISC-V Progress, Mbed LoRaWAN, and More

AB Open’s Andrew Back has published a look back at how the world of open source cellular networking has changed over the last six years, including the growth of the Osmocom project. “As exquisitely arcane as it may seem to the uninitiated, cellular infrastructure is very much within the… Read More

Debian Linux Receives Official 64-bit RISC-V Port

The Debian Linux distribution now has an official 64-bit RISC-V bootstrap in its ports infrastructure, allowing packages to be easily downloaded for use on the growing number of RISC-V devices on the market. “We’ve been working in the last few weeks to do a (second) bootstrap of Debian for RISC-V,… Read More

CRU: Circumference, the Pi 3 B+, El Correo Libre, SDR, and More

Ground Electronics, AB Open’s manufacturing division, today unveils a new “datacentre-in-a-box” platform targeting software development, testing, and education: the Raspberry Pi-powered Circumference. Presented to the public for the first time today ahead of a crowdfunding campaign launch in the coming weeks, Circumference is designed to offer all the functionality of… Read More

Lime Micro Working on RISC-V LimeNET Base Station

Lime Microsystems are working with SiFive to build an open wireless base station featuring the former’s field-programmable radio frequency (FPRF) IC and the latter’s RISC-V processor technology. Building on the existing LimeNET platform, which pairs the open LimeSDR software defined radio with x86 host hardware, the prototype design replaces the… Read More

OSDDI: Dr Jeremy Bennett, Embecosm

In the latest episode of Open Source Digital Design Insights we hear from Dr Jeremy Bennett, CEO of Embecosm, on the numerous motivations for open source silicon, its already modestly successful if largely unknown history, through LEON and OpenRISC ASIC manufacture, Embecosm’s own work on the… Read More

Mike Wishart Calls for “Open Innovation” in the IoT

Mike Wishart, chief executive officer at electronics crowdsourcing platform efabless, has issued a call for a move beyond open source software and into the realm of “open innovation.” “Embedded open source software not only works; most our world runs on it today,” Mike writes in the introduction of an… Read More

LibreCores launches El Correo Libre Newsletter

LibreCores launch newsletter for the free and open source silicon community, with news on everything from personal projects, through to research and industry developments. The inaugural edition of the El Correo Libre newsletter was published today and features news items on Google Summer of Code 2018, TinyFPGA, the 4th generation… Read More

CRU: Security, Open Consumer Products, Solderpad Hardware Licence 2.0, and More

GreenWaves Technologies has officially launched GAP8, its RISC-V based low-power application processor for Internet of Things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI) applications. Based on the work of the Parallel Ultra Low Power (PULP) project, GAP8 was first shown off as a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) core back in March… Read More

RISC-V’s Potential Highlighted in Low Start-up Costs

The benefit of an open instruction set architecture (ISA) like RISC-V have been laid bare in a piece by Stacey Higginbotham which puts the real-world cost of launching your own RISC-V semiconductor company below the cost of simply licensing proprietary intellectual property (IP) from a company like Arm. Following… Read More

Solderpad Hardware Licence Gets New Release

Version 2.0 release of Solderpad Hardware Licence is simplified and presented as a wraparound to the Apache 2.0 software license. The Solderpad Hardware Licence is based upon the popular Apache 2.0 software license, which in contrast to simpler permissive software licences such as BSD and MIT, provides greater clarity… Read More

GreenWaves Launches RISC-V PULP-based GAP8 AP

CRU: PULP Launches, RISC-V Fedora, LoRa, and More

The PULP (Parallel Ultra Low Power) Platform, a joint project between ETH Zurich and University of Bologna, had a busy February beginning with the release of the PULPissimo RISC-V microcontroller core, designed to take over from the more basic PULPino. “Today we are happy to announce PULPissimo, a new single-core… Read More