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| rah | I emailed the professor who supervised the Archipelago "open source FPGA" thesis here https://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2014/EECS-2014-43.html | 05:10 |
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| rah | he sent me an interesting set of slides from a talk he gave: | 05:10 |
| rah | http://settrans.net/~rah/misc/Wawrzynek-Reconfig-101214.pdf | 05:10 |
| rah | '"Call to Arms : Volunteer Wanted" University Consortium to develop open simple FPGA HW and SW' | 05:14 |
| olofk | rah: I remember Archipelago. We invited them to orconf IIRC, but haven't heard anything since | 07:34 |
| olofk | Interesting presentation. I love the idea of using FPGAs to speed up P&R :) | 07:40 |
| ZipCPU|Laptop | olofk, rah: Yeah ... fascinating paper. | 07:49 |
| ZipCPU|Laptop | I had the option of watching an FPGA government program start and die too. It would've been greatly helped by an open source ISA. | 07:50 |
| ZipCPU|Laptop | The program was attempting to exploit a sub-threshold design methodology a professor had developed. | 07:50 |
| ZipCPU|Laptop | If we could've gotten it built, it would've created a *super* low power FPGA. | 07:50 |
| ZipCPU|Laptop | We got close enough that the chip was designed and sent to the fab, but then the fab decided to stop using that process before our chip got fabbed. | 07:51 |
| ZipCPU|Laptop | Sigh. | 07:51 |
| olofk | ZipCPU|Laptop: Sounds a bit like what the PULP guys have been working on. They based it on open source stuff (first OpenRISC, then RISC-V). That was probably a very sensible choice | 08:03 |
| rah | olofk: disappointing that they're not interested in orconf | 09:22 |
| rah | although the prof. seems quite focussed on FPGAs; maybe an icestorm conference he'd be interested in | 09:23 |
| olofk | rah: They might have been interested. Can't remember right now. Many users in the US are interested, but can't justify the time and money to come over to Europe for just a weekend | 09:34 |
| olofk | Then we have a few examples of people who travel the world for a chance to meet the rest of us :) ZipCPU|Laptop, shorne | 09:35 |
| rah | heh | 09:41 |
| ZipCPU | "travel the world" ... Heh, yeah. | 09:58 |
| shorne | olofk: do you know Jakob? from recent mail, it seems he worked at saab | 10:50 |
| shorne | I think I'll meet up with him while he is here in Tokyo | 10:51 |
| shorne | time for be | 11:43 |
| shorne | bed | 11:43 |
| olofk | shorne: We have likely crossed paths. When I was working for ORSoC we did things together with both ÅAC Microtec and Realtime Embedded | 12:57 |
| olofk | And the first orconf was at Realtime Embedded's offices :) | 12:57 |
| olofk | http://orconf.org/2012/images/orconf2012-group-shot.jpg | 12:57 |
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