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   1 # Open Tape-out
   2
   3 * <https://opentapeout.dev/>
   4 * Jean-Paul Chaput presenting about coriolis2
   5 * Luke Leighton about Libre-SOC
   6 * <https://twitter.com/OTapeout>
   7
   8 # Coriolis2
   9
  10 * by Jean-Paul
  11
  12 # Libre-SOC
  13
  14 by Luke Leighton.  bio:
  15
  16 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton specialises in Libre Ethical Technology.
  17 He has been using, programming and reverse-engineering computing
  18 devices continuously for 44 years, has a BEng (Hons), ACGI, in Theory
  19 of Computing from Imperial College, and recently put that education to
  20 good use in the form of the Libre-SOC Project: an entirely
  21 Libre-Licensed 3D Hybrid CPU-VPU-GPU based on OpenPOWER. He writes
  22 poetry and has been developing a HEP Physics theory for the past 36
  23 years in his spare time.
  24
  25 ## Abstract: Overview of the Libre-SOC Project
  26
  27 The Libre-SOC Project aims to provide a mass-volume processor with
  28 3D and Video capability built-in to the ISA, for use in end-user products
  29 such as smartphones netbooks chromebooks tablets and Industrial SBC/IoT.
  30 It is a massive project, starting small and being developed "smart".
  31
  32 Why it is being created - at all - can be easily guaged by examining
  33 the littering of systematic failures by multiple large Corporations:
  34 Intel Management Engine, Qualcomm leaving 40% of the world's smartphones
  35 vulnerable to hijacking, Apple drive-by WIFI zero-exploits, Supermicro
  36 de-listed from NASDAQ, Huawei, Smartphones shipping by default with
  37 Trojans, and many others.
  38
  39 Efforts to fix this (Fairphone) simply do not go far back enough down
  40 the chain.  Just as Google sees the only solution to Rowhammer to be
  41 to create a Libre/Open LPDDR4 Memory PHY and Controller (because the
  42 existing RTL providers cannot be trusted to solve it properly), we
  43 see the only solution to be to take full responsibility for creating a
  44 suitable full-on Embedded high-end multi-core System-on-a-Chip, done
  45 entirely Libre.
  46
  47 This talk will therefore provide a high-level overview into some of the
  48 technical decisions behind the "why", in order to achieve such a
  49 ridicuously-ambitious goal in a "smarter" (rather than "work harder")
  50 innovative way.
  51
  52 <https://www.linkedin.com/posts/simonsinek_those-who-only-know-what-they-do-work-harder-activity-6857322898051489792-nxjb>
  53
  54     Those who only know what they do, work harder. Those who also
  55     know WHY they do what they do, work smarter.
  56
  57     Simon Sinek
  58
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