http://freedomtechnologycenter.org/events/ X-Mailer: MH-E 7.3; nmh 1.1-RC1; XEmacs 21.4 (patch 14) OpenRISC demo: Monday, December 15, 2003, 7pm 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) right here at the Freedom Technology Center. 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. ====================================================================== This certainly isn't a "barn-burner" as far as performance goes; it's no 3GHz Itanic, but then I wouldn't much want the latter, either. If a system was available at a reasonable price, I'd buy one for sure, even though it be somewhat wimpy. -- (format nil "~S@~S" "aa454" "freenet.carleton.ca") http://cbbrowne.com/info/postgresql.html "If God meant us to be vegetarians why'd He make cows out of meat?" -- seen on a bumper sticker -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml