ekroa

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How Do You Chip Away Colombian Stereotypes? With Microchips(forbes.com)
3 points by ekroa 7y ago|0 comments
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by ekroa 8y ago
I don't buy it. Having Cadence and Synopsys involved it is like DARPA invites Mathworks to do an open-source version of Matlab.
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by ekroa 8y ago
We've been thinking on this. It is definitely a though issue but it is not different from the opportunity of decapping a commercial chip and try to get IP from there. There a three options we have been thinking: 1. Obfuscated register
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by ekroa 8y ago
Guessing following cases: 1) Education 2) Synthesized analog functions: PLL, ADC, DAC, Filters, etc. 3) Do your own standard cells using a new kind of logic 4) Proof-of-concept for analog circuitry
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by ekroa 10y ago
Good point. We are trying to cover some mid-end apps too. Basically the reason is we are planning to implement some functionality on-the-chip, such as a USB 3.1 PHY which requires a decent tech.
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by ekroa 10y ago
The current measured chip v.1 of the Open-V has not USB PHY. We are using a USB-to-SPI cable to program the micro. However, we are developing a low-speed USV PHY: PCS and PMA; and also a high speed PHY USB3.1 https://twitter.com&
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by ekroa 10y ago
C is supported. We are using the riscv.org toolchain considering that the micro has a RV32IM set. An arduino bootloader will make the micro Arduino-compatible .
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by ekroa 10y ago
RV32IM with interruptions capability. Sure, we will add this at the CS site.
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by ekroa 10y ago
We are working on it. Please tune at https://twitter.com/onchipUIS
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by ekroa 10y ago
As the current ARM microcontrollers (Atmel SAMD11-21), we will load a bootloader that will allow connection/translation to Arduino software.
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by ekroa 10y ago
Not yet, working on first prototypes. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CrZDrWEWcAAueij.jpg
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by ekroa 10y ago
Programming examples, registers documentation and Schematics will be provided. Remember the old National Semiconductor Databooks? We would release the complete design data, so users will be able to propose different ideas with the integrate
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Arduino-compatible open-source 32-bit microcontroller(eetimes.com)
2 points by ekroa 10y ago|13 comments
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by ekroa 11y ago
The guys behind RISC-V have implemented some chips. A big brother of pico in 28nm is reported at https://aspire.eecs.berkeley.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/... Has anyone try to synthesize pico or simil