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It's the right time to switch computing to Open Hardware Power Architecture

Talkat FOSDEM 2021 · on Saturday, 2021-02-06· at 12:15· D.power· [embedded-and-hardware, open-source]

speaker

name:Roberto Innocenti

links:none on file

resources

video:https://video.fosdem.org/2021/D.power/switchtoopenpowerhardware.mp4

slides:https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/switchtoopenpowerhardware/attachments/slides/4607/export/events/attachments/switchtoopenpowerhardware/slides/4607/Fosdem_2021_Switch_OH_PowerArchitecture.pdf

summary

Describes recent openings in Power Architecture: IBM released A2I/A20 softcore designs under CC-BY 4.0 and the POWER ISA was opened in 2019, enabling royalty-free implementations. Covers how FOSS adoption has influenced manufacturers to embrace new CPU architectures and surveys concrete Open Hardware Power projects such as the Power Architecture Notebook, Libre-SOC (a POWER-compliant SoC with CPU, GPU, VPU and DDR controller), and inexpensive Power Architecture motherboard efforts, aimed at educators, makers, hobbyists and consumer/gaming devices.

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