Tag: OSHW

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Bunnie Huang Makes Case for Open Hardware Consumer Products

Slowing of Moore’s law, virtuous feedback cycle and ecosystem benefits cited among the motivations for making consumer products with designs that anyone can study and modify. In a Business Impact interview for MIT Technology Review Andrew “Bunnie” Huang makes the case for hackable consumer products, noting how “The slowing… 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

CRU: OSHCamp 2018, OpenPiton, LoRaWAN and More

The Open Source Hardware Camp 2018 is set to take place in Lincoln on the 30th of June and 1st of July, and the call for talks and workshops is now open. While the event has an overall theme of, naturally, open source hardware, there is no overriding topic list… Read More

Open Source Hardware Camp 2018 call for Talks & Workshops

This year’s Open Source Hardware Camp will be hosted at The Blue Room in the historic county town of Lincoln, over the weekend of Sat 30th June & Sun 1st July. Lincoln is home to, amongst others, noted engine builders Ruston & Hornsby — now Siemens, via GEC and English… Read More

OSDDI: Davide Rossi, PULP Platform

The IoT and sensor network focused Parallel Ultra Low Power (PULP) platform is described as a “silicon-proven parallel platform for ultra-low power computing targeting high energy efficiencies”. It is organised in clusters of RISC-V cores that share tightly coupled data memory and comprised of IPs described in SystemVerilog. The… Read More

Brain-1 Syzygy Open Dev Board Hits Crowd Supply

Opal Kelly has launched a crowdfunding campaign to produce a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) development board, Brain-1, featuring its Syzygy open standard for high-performance peripheral connectivity. Designed to coexist with existing interconnection standards including PMOD and FMC, Syzygy is claimed to be entirely vendor-agnostic and compatible with products from… Read More

RISC-V Shakti Project Targets Early 2018 Manufacturing

The creators of the Shakti Processor Project, which aims to build a RISC-V design capable of scaling from embedded to high-performance compute (HPC) tasks, have announced they are to begin chip manufacture in the first half of 2018. During a detailed interview with Factor Daily held at the… Read More

CRU: RISC-V Growth, FPGAs, Radio, and More

Microsemi has announced it is to help push RISC-V adoption through Mi-V, a new ecosystem which gives those developing on the open architecture full tier-one vendor support from the top down. “As a leader in RISC-V, we are pleased Microsemi is the first tier one vendor to build out a… Read More

LimeSDR-Mini Crowdfunding Campaign Closes at 250%

The LimeSDR-Mini crowdfunding campaign reached its $100,000 goal some weeks ago and earlier this week it drew to a close at 250% funded. We may be a little biased — having worked on a number of demos using a prototype of the diminutive SDR board — but it’s hard… Read More

SiFive adds Flex Logix eFPGAs to DesignShare

RISC-V pioneer SiFive has announced that Flex Logix is adding its EFLX embedded field-programmable gate array (FPGA) to the DesignShare platform, adding yet another string to the ecosystem’s system-on-chip (SoC) design bow. “There is a critical need in the chip industry to provide a faster, cheaper way for innovative companies… Read More

FireSim Brings RISC-V to Amazon’s AWS Platform

Researchers at the University of California at Berkeley RISE Lab have released FireSim, an open-source cloud instance of RocketChip RISC-V processors running on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform. “FPGA-accelerated hardware simulation is by no means a new concept. However, previous attempts to use FPGAs for simulation have been fraught… Read More