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We are glad to announce the next edition of the Free Silicon Conference (#FSiC) which will be held in Paris on June 19, 20, 21 2024:
https://wiki.f-si.org/index.php/FSiC2024
Please help us to spread the voice and to identify new open-silicon projects and new open-source Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools.
To propose or suggest an idea just answer to this toot or write at fsic2024'at'f-si.org.
We prepared a list of recommendations and a roadmap for the European Commission for the development of open-source silicon in the EU.
The full text can be downloaded here:
https://wiki.f-si.org/index.php?title=Recommendations_and_roadmap_for_the_development_of_open-source_silicon_in_the_EU
If you have any thoughts or comments on the document please answer to this thread.
#Silicon #openHardware #Chips #IntegratedCircuits #Semiconductor #GoIT #roadmap #EuropeanCommission
We are glad to announce the next edition of the Free Silicon Conference (#FSiC) which will be held in Paris on July 10,11,12 2023.
The tentative program is:
https://wiki.f-si.org/index.php/FSiC2023
Please help us spreading the voice, and please propose or suggest ideas by answering this toot or by writing at fsic2023'at'f-si.org.
#openHardware #Chips #IntegratedCircuits #semiconductor #silicon #FSiC #GoIT
We have submitted a proposal for a European call entitled "Coordination and Support Action (CSA) for Open Source Hardware for ultra-low-power, secure microprocessors":
Our proposal can be downloaded at:
https://wiki.f-si.org/index.php/Horizon_2021_Coordination_and_Support_Action_(CSA)_proposal
We feel that sufficiently new ideas have been generated for justifying the publication. This will further increase the #transparency of the selection process.
If you have any comments please leave them below.
We prepared a white paper for the #EuropeanCommission containing recommendations about #OpenHardware as encouraged last November:
https://wiki.f-si.org/index.php/White_paper_for_the_EC,_January_2020
Please discuss it or endorse it by replying to this thread.
The paper will be delivered on January 31.
A first draft was shared in December with:
* april.org @aprilorg
* fsfe.org @fsfe
* fsf.org @fsf
* Aral Balkan @aral
* waag.org @waag
* sfconservancy.org @conservancy
* gpl-violations.org
* commonsnetwork.eu
What are the limitations of existing free and open-source (FOS) electronic design automation (#EDA) tools?
What is it missing to design a chip with 1+ Million gates?
Which will be the first foundry to open a process design kit (PDKs)?
These are some of the questions that will be addressed at the third Free Silicon Conference (#FSiC2020) which will be held in Zurich on June 4-6 2020.
More info at:
https://wiki.f-si.org/index.php/FSiC2020
Picture: the Raven chip of Tim Edwards
https://peertube.f-si.org/videos/watch/e8404429-4d32-4741-ac11-1beb0f16348e
#KiCad joins the Linux Foundation to advance electronic design automation
Is it possible to simulate transistors using open-source tools only?
How fast are the available solvers?
How hard is it to interface with existing PDKs?
The following talks provide very promising answers:
* ngspice - an open source mixed signal circuit simulator, by Holger Vogt
https://peertube.f-si.org/videos/watch/62e7ad36-e7fc-4884-971a-9fcedf17d9f2
* Gnu Circuit Analysis Package (GnuCap), by Al Davis
https://peertube.f-si.org/videos/watch/5cae10a1-c5c6-45d3-9ade-949c0d3a2062
* Converting 45nm transistor netlists to open standards, by Thomas Benz
https://peertube.f-si.org/videos/watch/40e29b80-8a91-445c-b3cc-1fb886d7d51b
Which foundries are the most friendly to open-source? Is there an open-source #PDK?
Kholdoun Torki of Circuits-Multi-Projects (https://mycmp.fr/) provided a great overview:
"Towards Foundry PDKs on Free CAD Tools"
https://peertube.f-si.org/videos/watch/db22ddc7-85cf-4356-bc46-af90e3f72fd6
All the recordings of the Free Silicon Conference are now online:
https://peertube.f-si.org/video-channels/fsic2019
Day 1 focuses on high-level design. Some of the concepts presented in the first talks can be partially applied to FPGAs as well
Day 2 discusses aspects closer to silicon, such as PDKs, memory generators and layouting
Day 3 presents hands-on tutorials
The full program is available at:
https://wiki.f-si.org/index.php/FSiC2019
The past Free Silicon Conference was opened with a great talk by Todd Weaver from #Purism:
"The Future of Computing and Why You Should Care"
https://peertube.f-si.org/videos/watch/d8dcaf9e-88c7-44cf-9f97-d7d96d1d9b28
Is it possible to design a silicon chip using 100% Free and Open Source (FOS) tools?
Can one publish the layout?
Which impact can be expected?
These are few of the questions that thirty-six speakers will address at the second Free Silicon Conference (#FSiC).
Last chance to attend: reservation deadline is next week (February 21):
https://wiki.f-si.org/index.php/FSiC2019
Cannot join in Paris? No worries! We are preparing the equipment to record all the sessions.
The 35th Chaos Communication Congress, #35C3, ended few days ago. All talks can be seen at
https://media.ccc.de/c/35c3
and browsed by theme:
https://halfnarp.events.ccc.de/
A small selection about #silicon and place-and-route tools:
LibreSilicon - decentralizing semiconductor manufacturing
https://media.ccc.de/v/35c3-9410-libresilicon
The nextpnr FOSS FPGA place-and-route tool
https://media.ccc.de/v/35c3-9612-the_nextpnr_foss_fpga_place-and-route_tool
Where can you download, modify and share a silicon IP block just like you do, say, with gcc?
Nowhere.
The licenses of mainstream proprietary silicon CAD tools explicitly forbid publishing anything created with them. This is partially due to keep algorithms, such as place-and-route, more secret.
It is like writing a book with a proprietary word processor and then not having permission to publish it for not revealing how the grammar checker works.
Free silicon requires free CAD tools.
We are proud to announce the birth of the Free Silicon Foundation (https://f-si.org)!
We organize a conference in Paris, March 14-16 2019, to promote:
1. Free and Open Source (FOS) CAD tools for designing #VLSI circuits
2. the sharing of hardware designs
3. common standards
4. the freedom of users in the context of #silicon technology
Program and submissions:
https://wiki.f-si.org/index.php/FSiC2019
- Website
- https://f-si.org
- Conference
- https://wiki.f-si.org/index.php/FSiC2019
- Videos
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