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The dates for this year s Wuthering Bytes festival and the Open Source Hardware Camp (OSHCamp) have been announced, with a call for participation now open. This year the Wuthering Bytes festival will be taking place in Hebden Bridge from Friday the 23rd to Saturday the 31st of August inclusive staring with the popular Festival Continued The post Wuthering Bytes and OSHCamp Dates Confirmed, as the…
Confirmed speakers include Matthew Venn, a science and technology communicator and electronic engineer, who will be delivering a talk on how to design your own open source microchips. Also joining the line-up is composer, electronic artist and robotic instrument maker Sarah Angliss who will be exploring the life and legacy of Daphne Oram. The post Wuthering Bytes 2023 First Speakers Confirmed…
AB Open is proud to announce the return of Wuthering Bytes, the three-day festival celebrating interesting and inspiring technology now celebrating its 10-year anniversary and we re looking for participants to run events or give presentations. After global and local conditions caused a three-year hiatus, AB Open is now preparing for Wuthering Bytes 10-year anniversary Continued The post Wuthering…
CLEAR, a fully-open development board built around a RISC-V embedded-FPGA application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) designed by Efabless as a showcase of what its chipIgnite platform can offer, is entering the last days of its crowdfunding campaign with just a handful of boards left to reach its goal. CLEAR is an open source FPGA ASIC delivered Continued The post Efabless CLEAR, a Fully-Open…
Zero ASIC s chief executive Andreas Olofsson has called for all chip designers to try out the open-source SiliconCompiler build system, showcasing his top ten reasons for giving it a go including a provenance feature which supports the Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) standard. We have been working hard on our open source SiliconCompiler build Continued The post Ten Reasons to use…
Google Research has released the source code for a chip floor-plan generate based on deep reinforcement learning after publishing a paper demonstrating how effective the approach could be in April last year. Chip floorplanning is the engineering task of designing the physical layout of a computer chip, the research team explained in the abstract Continued The post Google Research Releases Circuit…
SiFive collaborated with AB Open to create a rack-mount RISC-V cluster based around the SiFive HiFive Unmatched developer platform for compute and a SiFive HiFive1 Rev. B development board for control. In this article we take a closer look at the design of the cluster and consider some of the key use cases. Features The Continued The post A Closer Look at the SiFive RISC-V Rack Cluster appeared…
Halifax, UK, 30th November 2021—Open hardware consultancy AB Open has built a unique personal computer based on the free and open source RISC-V instruction set architecture, following a partnership with Future Corporation. The post Future Corporation Partners with AB Open for Unique RISC-V PC Project appeared first on AB Open .
The free and open source silicon community, both established and simply interested, is invited to a new event this weekend: the OpenTapeOut Conference 2021, hosted by Zero to ASIC course creator Matt Venn. We encourage all of you folks to join us at what we hope will be the start of a revolution! No matter Continued The post All Invited to the OpenTapeOut Open Source ASIC Design Conference This…
Alibaba has released the source code for its XuanTie E902, E906, C906, and C910 RISC-V processor cores, promising to follow their release with additional development tools, software development kits, and customisations in the future. Designed by Alibaba s T-Head semiconductor arm, the XuanTie C906 was launched as a low-power in-order core for the Internet of Things, Continued The post Alibaba s…