The_Mission.mdwn

   1 # The Mission
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   3  - give mass volume appliance manufacturers an alternative to expensive un-auditable chips.
   4  - maximize the degree of trust a customer can place in their processor.
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   6 # The Means:
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   8 - provide the customer the **freedom to study, modify, and redistribute** the full SoC source from HDL and boot loader to down to the VLSI.
   9 - engage in **full transparency** at every level of the development, right from the inception through to delivery of silicon.  no exceptions.
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  11 # The Market:
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  13  - chromebooks
  14  - smartphones
  15  - tablets
  16  - industrial boards
  17  - single-board computers (like the Raspberry Pi)
  18  - whatever you want
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  20 # The Machine:
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  22 - our first target (Oct 2020): a single-core dual-issue 180nm 64-bit "demo" QFP chip that will also be a saleable product in the "Embedded" space (Arduino, STM32F, Ingenic jz4720).
  23 - a full quad core SoC: 800mhz, dual issue, 4-wide FP32, Hybrid CPU / GPU / VPU [and later an ML inference core], comparable to the Allwinner 64 in capability.