conferences/opentapeoutdev2021.mdwn

   1 # Open Tape-out Dev, November 6-7 2021
   2
   3 * <https://opentapeout.dev/>
   4 * Jean-Paul Chaput presenting about coriolis2 <https://youtu.be/sunruF6ryso?t=4338>
   5 * Luke Leighton about Libre-SOC <https://youtu.be/sunruF6ryso?t=6749>
   6 * <https://twitter.com/OTapeout>
   7 * Nov 6th-7th, 2021, 19:00 to 21:00 CET
   8  (Central European Time: Amsterdam / Paris / Brussels)
   9
  10 # Coriolis, a FOSS RTL-to-GDSII Toolchain
  11
  12 by Jean-Paul Chaput, bio:
  13
  14 Coriolis, a FOSS RTL-to-GDSII Toolchain Jean-Paul Chaput holds a Master Degree in MicroElectronics and Software Engineering. He joined the LIP6 laboratory within SU (formerly UPMC) in 2000. Currently he is a Research Engineer in the Analog and Mixed Signal Team at LIP6. His main focus is on physical level design software. He is a key contributor in developing and maintaining the Alliance/Coriolis VLSI CAD projects for CMOS technologies. In particular he contributed in developing the routers of both Alliance/Coriolis and the whole Coriolis toolchain infrastructure. He his now a key contributor in extending Alliance/Coriolis to the Analog Mixed-Signal integration for nanometric CMOS technologies.
  15
  16 # Libre-SOC
  17
  18 by Luke Leighton.  bio:
  19
  20 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton specialises in Libre Ethical Technology.
  21 He has been using, programming and reverse-engineering computing
  22 devices continuously for 44 years, has a BEng (Hons), ACGI, in Theory
  23 of Computing from Imperial College, and recently put that education to
  24 good use in the form of the Libre-SOC Project: an entirely
  25 Libre-Licensed 3D Hybrid CPU-VPU-GPU based on OpenPOWER. He writes
  26 poetry and has been developing a HEP Physics theory for the past 36
  27 years in his spare time.
  28
  29 ## Abstract: Overview of the Libre-SOC Project
  30
  31 The Libre-SOC Project aims to provide a mass-volume processor with
  32 3D and Video capability built-in to the ISA, for use in end-user products
  33 such as smartphones netbooks chromebooks tablets and Industrial SBC/IoT.
  34 It is a massive project, starting small and being developed "smart".
  35
  36 Why it is being created - at all - can be easily guaged by examining
  37 the littering of systematic failures by multiple large Corporations:
  38 Intel Management Engine, Qualcomm leaving 40% of the world's smartphones
  39 vulnerable to hijacking, Apple drive-by WIFI zero-exploits, Supermicro
  40 de-listed from NASDAQ, Huawei, Smartphones shipping by default with
  41 Trojans, and many others.
  42
  43 Efforts to fix this (Fairphone) simply do not go far back enough down
  44 the chain.  Just as Google sees the only solution to Rowhammer to be
  45 to create a Libre/Open LPDDR4 Memory PHY and Controller (because the
  46 existing RTL providers cannot be trusted to solve it properly), we
  47 see the only solution to be to take full responsibility for creating a
  48 suitable full-on Embedded high-end multi-core System-on-a-Chip, done
  49 entirely Libre.
  50
  51 This talk will therefore provide a high-level overview into some of the
  52 technical decisions behind the "why", in order to achieve such a
  53 ridicuously-ambitious goal in a "smarter" (rather than "work harder")
  54 innovative way.
  55
  56 <https://www.linkedin.com/posts/simonsinek_those-who-only-know-what-they-do-work-harder-activity-6857322898051489792-nxjb>
  57
  58     Those who only know what they do, work harder. Those who also
  59     know WHY they do what they do, work smarter.
  60
  61     Simon Sinek
  62
  63 # URLs for the talk
  64
  65 * <https://libre-soc.org/>
  66 * <https://libre-soc.org/conferences/opentapeoutdev2021/>
  67 * <https://git.libre-soc.org/>
  68 * <http://lists.libre-soc.org/mailman/listinfo>
  69 * <https://bugs.libre-soc.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=nlnet%20milestone&list_id=2583>
  70 * <https://libre-soc.org/nlnet_proposals/>
  71 * <https://libre-soc.org/180nm_Oct2020/ls180/>
  72 * <https://libre-soc.org/180nm_Oct2020/ls180.svg>
  73 * <https://libre-soc.org/3d_gpu/architecture/dynamic_simd/>
  74 * <https://git.libre-soc.org/?p=nmutil.git;a=tree;f=src/nmutil;hb=HEAD>
  75 * <https://git.libre-soc.org/?p=nmutil.git;a=blob;f=src/nmutil/stageapi.py;hb=HEAD>
  76 * <https://git.libre-soc.org/?p=nmutil.git;a=blob;f=src/nmutil/singlepipe.py;hb=HEAD>
  77 * <https://www.chisel-lang.org/api/3.4.3/chisel3/util/index.html>
  78 * <https://docs.libre-soc.org/nmutil/genindex.html>
  79 * <https://libre-soc.org/3d_gpu/architecture/regfile/>
  80 * <https://git.libre-soc.org/?p=soc.git;a=blob;f=src/soc/simple/core.py;hb=HEAD>
  81 * <https://git.libre-soc.org/?p=openpower-isa.git;a=blob;f=src/openpower/decoder/power_decoder.py;hb=HEAD>
  82 * <https://git.libre-soc.org/?p=openpower-isa.git;a=blob;f=openpower/isatables/minor_19.csv;hb=HEAD>
  83 * <https://git.libre-soc.org/?p=openpower-isa.git;a=blob;f=openpower/isatables/fields.text;hb=HEAD>
  84 * <https://bugs.libre-soc.org/show_bug.cgi?id=739>
  85 * <https://libre-soc.org/crypto_router_pinmux/>
  86
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  88
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