And finally, the SediCi PC - a retro-styled microcomputer implemented on a low-cost #FPGA, and built around a custom 16-bit CPU.
Yes, you can download the Verilog.
Final #Hackster round-up of the week, and today's three starts with the news from @matthewvenn that Tiny Tapeout is running another demoscene-inspired contest - and you can get a free tile for your entry!
(You don't get a chip for that, tho' - you'll have to pay for the devkit to actually get your hands on your creation, along with everyone else's on the multi-project die.)
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Big milestone for the #OpenTitan hardware root of trust project: the open-silicon design is now shipping in commercial Chromebooks, on-shelves now thanks to a silicon implementation by Nuvoton.
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Andrew "buinnie" Huang's Dabao, which I wrote about back in January, is now crowdfunding: under $10 (plus shipping, admittedly) for a microcontroller board built around the Baochip-1x - a #RISCV part with "mostly open RTL," and packaged in a way you can peer beneath the silicon's surface with an infrared torch and a modified inspection camera.
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And finally, for now, some news from lowRISC and the CHERI Alliance: the launch of the COSMIC Project, "CHERI for Operational Safety in Memory-Isolated Cores" - an open-source secure enclave for systems-on-chips, built atop the OpenTitan project and implementing the Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions.
It'll be "commercial quality," they say - and OpenTitan's already shipping in Google's Chromebooks.
Excited to have ordered some /properly/ open-source hardware. One of @matthewvenn's VGA clock #TinyTapeout kits.
Plus it includes a donation to @oshwassociation
https://store.tinytapeout.com/products/TT03p5-Development-Kit-VGA-PMOD-p655428056
This limited edition, special pack consists of the TT3.5 chip, demo board and VGA clock PMOD. For every purchase made we will donate $100 to the Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA) https://www.oshwa.org/ The TT3.5 ASIC was our trial run of the multiplexer architecture and as well as the clock, contains other designs you can also experiment with.
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