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by lkcl 6y ago
not at all. we've two companies, one focussed on full transparency for Banking and other high-security environments, willing to sign Letters of Intent. we're looking for three more as it will make investment pretty straightforwa
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by lkcl 6y ago
i appreciate the perspective. with Asperger's, i'm just literal and up-front. i do make it clear that Bob Goudriaans is a Chartered Account, specialising in International Tax Law. perhaps i should also mention that NLnet has be
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by lkcl 6y ago
luckily, through yosys, conversion to Verilog is trivial. and yes, when we get to 22nm (etc) we'll need to license commercial tools from Cadence, Synopsis etc. we're setting up a commercial operation to do that. right now we&#x2
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by lkcl 6y ago
ours will be one of the first or second. Staf from Chips4Makers will be using nmigen-based infrastructure. the nice thing about being charitably-funded to do research is: it's not our personal money. NLnet has offered to pay for a 1
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by lkcl 6y ago
There's a lot of red flags, from NIH HDL generator language, to using an OoOE core for GPU tasks, to suggesting that you don't talk to your lawyer in the NLNet FAQ i ask people, if they want to help, not to waste money on talkin
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by lkcl 6y ago
we're a rather small technically-focussed team, 80% of us with Asperger's (!). right now, we can either focus on making the site look pretty, or we can focus on "getting it done". if you'd like to see what was done
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by lkcl 6y ago
btw, just one thing, having seen this slashdot comment: https://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=17816088&cid=60823... what i strongly recommend that google do - instead of doing this work which is, as you've prob
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by lkcl 6y ago
analysing a source-only-based distro (one where the compiler is required as a dependency) should make the importance of the compiler(s) clearer. source-only distros include macports, gentoo, and so on.
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by lkcl 6y ago
people. as a computer scientist you're probably thinking, "this can be solved by analysing a source code forge" or, "this can be solved by running an algorithm". it can't (or, more to the point: it can tell y
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by lkcl 6y ago
good advice. "apt-get install apt-rdepends" and it becomes possible to work out the reverse-dependencies of packages. by counting the numbers it becomes pretty blindingly obvious what the critical dependencies are. as mentioned
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by lkcl 6y ago
one of the things that's important is not to include google's lawyers bias against the GPL license. i always wondered where the bias against the GPL came from, within google, and learned of the existence of the in-house legal tea
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Libre-RISC-V 3D CPU/GPU Seeks NLNet Grants for Ambitious Expansion(hardware.slashdot.org)
2 points by lkcl 7y ago|0 comments
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Libre-RISC-V 3D CPU/GPU Seeks NLNet Grants for Ambitious Expansion(groups.google.com)
3 points by lkcl 7y ago|0 comments
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by lkcl 8y ago
nonsense. rocket-chip has been taped out at 45nm and achieved 1.5ghz, years ago. india's shakti core is going into 20nm and as a 6-stage pipeline will run at 2.5ghz. as that one uses only 120mW, even 16 2.5ghz cores would only consu
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by lkcl 8y ago
> You won't see high performance open source micrarchitectures that implements RISC-V core. India's Shakti Core is a 6-stage pipeline that runs at 2.5ghz in 20nm and uses only 120mW. Their roadmap includes VLSI variants which
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by lkcl 8y ago
usually in these cases where the CPU is so slow, it simply doesn't have the bus bandwidth even to feed an LCD. so the LCD is an SPI device or 8080 MCU compatible memory-mapped peripheral, that has its own internal SRAM as a framebuffe
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by lkcl 8y ago
https://github.com/RoaLogic/vga_lcd richard herveille created one 16 years ago which can do the job. it's silicon-proven: ICubeCorp put it into their IC3128.
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by lkcl 8y ago
I'll be presenting a talk at the Chennai 9th RISC-V workshop about doing precisely this: a Libre RISC-V SoC. http://libre-riscv.org/shakti/m_class/ and yes, it is indeed as complicated as you describe. Fortun
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by lkcl 9y ago
would you be interested - and self-motivated - to help get an entirely libre RISC-V SoC up and running, that has the building blocks of a VPU and also enough Vector Processing in some form to do decent 3D graphics as well? tools are paid f
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by lkcl 9y ago
the cost of doing say a 180nm chip is somewhere around... USD $10,000. that's $10,000 per shot ... and you end up with something around... maybe... 200mhz maximum? and consuming vast amounts of power, relative to today's technol
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by lkcl 9y ago
so, you're doing some research on 3 or 4 different simultaneous projects. one is in particle physics (a part-time interest) where you need to find related articles on nature, arxiv, vixra and the general internet. google search, cli
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by lkcl 9y ago
vimperator aka pentadactyl. works really well and if you press the alt key you get the "standard" menu back. it increases screen real-estate, and i love it. it's by no means perfect but i won't go back to standard key
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by lkcl 10y ago
enshrined in patent law is the right for anyone to implement a single instance of a patent, so that they may improve on it. source code that's downloaded and then compiled thus constitutes "a single instance". if the fucker
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by lkcl 10y ago
> the project lead, who was, um, difficult ah! it's been so long, i've been so busy i couldn't remember who you were, out of curiosity had to look you up. yes. i remember. from successful experience of 10 years using w
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by lkcl 10y ago
yeah exactly. now, here's the thing: if you want to plug in newer hypocritical-boards... ... i'm sorry, you may be confused by the use of that phrase - allow me to explain before completing the sentence. broadcom is a highly une
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by lkcl 10y ago
allo mwcampbell, did i see you on reddit a few days ago? so much has happened so fast :) i understood it differently, but there are definitely people who don't want today's low-power tablet-style processors in a desktop computer
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by lkcl 10y ago
http://linux-sunxi.org/EGON#eGON.BRM
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by lkcl 10y ago
It had, e.g., a big chunk of code bolted on that loaded a binary data file at boot time and configured the various peripherals. that's all been reverse-engineered, in fact the source for boot0/boot1 is now properly GPL
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by lkcl 10y ago
> 1. Is there any RISC-V silicon available? not anything useful > 2. Is there even a complete spec for RISC-V? yes. > 3. At that level of paranoia, you're always going > to probe deeper... Suppose someone inserted backdoor
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by lkcl 10y ago
we don't have a lot of choice at the moment, from a practical and self-funding perspective which retains 100% control and thus can remain true to its ethical business roots. i outline a SMALL selection of the dozens of processors eval

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