Monday 15 Dec: first all-Open Source System-on-Chip

From: Don Marti (dmarti_at_zgp.org)
Date: 12/11/03

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    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

    First all-Open Source System-on-Chip to appear at Freedom
    Technology Center

    On Monday, December 15, at 7pm, OpenCores developer Damjan
    Lampret will give the first public demonstration of an
    all-Open Source System-On-Chip (SoC) at the Freedom Technology
    Center in Mountain View, California, USA. The new OpenCores
    System-On-Chip, developed and manufactured by Flextronics
    Semiconductor, runs Linux, uClinux, or eCos. The SoC is
    exclusively built with freely licensed OpenCores IP cores.
    The chip includes the OpenRISC OR1200 32-bit processor, a Memory
    Controller for SDRAM/FLASH/SRAM, a 10/100 Mbps Ethernet MAC,
    32-bit, 33/66MHz PCI support, and a 16550 UART.

    Lampret said, "Are open source soft cores starting to have
    impact on the semiconductor industry? Yes, slowly but
    irreversibly. What started in 1983 with the GNU project
    is now starting in open source hardware with OpenCores, 20
    years later."

    The demonstration will cover the System-On-Chip, how it
    was designed and the manufacturing technology used. Special
    attention will be paid to the processor, the OpenRISC. It
    is a completely new RISC architecture developed using open
    source model. The GNU Compiler Collection (gcc) was ported,
    along with the GNU Binary Utilities including the assembler,
    linker, and debugger. An advanced simulator was built that can
    simulate now only the processor but an entire SoC, and of course
    a complete synthesizable RTL implementation was developed. A
    live presentation will show how the GNU development tools gdb
    and DDD can be used to download software code and debug it on
    the board.

    The OpenRISC OR1200 has a memory management unit (MMU), so
    can run either conventional Linux, which requires an MMU,
    or uClinux, which is intended for processors without an MMU.

    Please see the Freedom Technology Center event page for project
    info and directions.

    http://freedomtechnologycenter.org/events/ 

    -- 
Don Marti
http://zgp.org/~dmarti                      Learn Linux and free software 
dmarti@zgp.org                        from the experts in California, USA 
                                      http://freedomtechnologycenter.org/
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