+See architectural details [here](./architecture)
+
+# "Gaddie Pitch" (1) for LibreSOC
+
+| What we do | Benefits | Feelings |
+| ------------------------ | --------------------- | ----------------------- |
+| design high-performance | No spying backdoors, | Much less frustrated |
+| efficient and simpler | greatly reduced time | when developing products|
+| processors with built-in | and cost to market | using e.g. China-based |
+| 3D and Video capability | Simpler debugging | products. End-customer |
+| in a fully-transparent | Full transparency | stops complaining, |
+| fashion. | for their customers | Risk and worry gone. |
+
+## You know how...
+
+You know how for computers, you really have no idea how they work? And
+how you keep having to replace them with upgrades? Turns out that
+it's very difficult for medium-sized businesses to design lower-cost products
+because the only cheap processors (almost always from China) do not respect
+Copyright law, provide almost zero documentation, and even Intel processors
+are known to have spying backdoor co-processors in them?
+
+## Well what we do is...
+
+Well, what we do is: design 3D-capable efficient processors based on
+full transparency. All source code, right to the bedrock, hardware
+and software. We don't tell customers "trust us", we say "go have a
+specialist audit the full source, independently". If there's ever
+some documentation missing, the customer can check for themselves when
+designing *their* product around ours.
+
+## In fact...
+
+In fact, one customer that we're talking to is so fed up with a Chinese-based
+$35 component that they are using in a $3000 product, where they are having
+to spend considerable resources to *reverse-engineer* the China component,
+they are so fed up that they're willing to bet on our product even before we've
+completed it, they believe in the approach and our design that much.
+
+# "Gaddie Pitch" (1.5) for LibreSOC + EOMA68
+
+## What we do
+
+Design modular computing appliances based around "Computer Card" standards
+where the "Computer Card" may be upgraded, swapped, shared, re-programmed,
+re-purposed, and re-used.
+
+## Benefits
+
+Almost too numerous to describe. Not just the right to repair: the right
+to redesign and many more. "Computer Card" has the data *and* the apps on
+it, so goodbye file incompatibility: just move **the whole computer** from a
+TV slot to a Laptop slot to a Tablet slot to a Desktop slot. Also the cost
+savings and environmental savings are enormous. Keep the same $300 Laptop
+"Housing" for 15 years, upgrade its parts over time, and not only buy a
+new Computer Card for $30 every 2 years, keep the old one as a "spare",
+give it to the kids, re-program it for watching Videos, the list is endless.
+
+## Feelings
+
+Every person we've spoken to, once they get around the confusion of the
+idea of a "Computer" being inside a "Card" rather than "part of A Laptop",
+has loved both the environmental as well as the cost savings.
+
+# "Gaddie Pitch" (2) for LibreSOC
+
+Cole TODO
+
# Hybrid 3D GPU / CPU / VPU
Creating a trustworthy processor for the world.
a stand-alone GPU product (contact us if this is a product that you want).
Our primary goal is to design a **complete** all-in-one processor
(System-on-a-Chip) that happens to include libre-licensed VPU and GPU
-accelerated instructions as part of the actual - main - CPU itself.
+accelerated instructions as part of the actual - main - CPU itself. This greatly simplifies driver development, applications integration and debugging, reducing costs and time to market in the process.
We seek investors, sponsors (whose contributions thanks to NLNet may be
tax-deductible), engineers and potential customers, who are
interested, as a first product, in the creation and use of an entirely
-libre low-power mobile class system-on-a-chip. Comparative benchmark
+libre low-power mobile class system-on-a-chip
+[[shakti/m_class/]]. Comparative benchmark
performance, pincount and price is the Allwinner A64, except that the
power budget target is 2.5 watts in a 16x16mm 320 to 360 pin 0.8mm
FBGA package. Instead of single-issue higher clock rate, the design is
# Progress:
+* Oct 2020 [[180nm_Oct2020/ls180/]] pinouts decided, code-freeze initiated
+ for 180nm test ASIC, GDSII deadline set of Dec 2nd.
+* Sep 2020: [first boot](https://youtu.be/72QmWro9BSE) of Litex BIOS on a Versa ECP5 at 55mhz. DDR3 RAM initialisation successful. 180nm ASIC pinouts started [[180nm_Oct2020/ls180]]
+* Aug 2020: [first boot](https://libre-soc.org/3d_gpu/libresoc_litex_bios_first_execution_2020-08-06_16-15.png) of litex BIOS in verilator simulation
+* Jul 2020: first ppc64le "hello world" binary executed. 80,000 gate coriolis2 auto-layout completed with 99.98% routing. Wishbone MoU signed making available access to an additional EUR 50,000 donations from NLNet. XDC2020 and OpenPOWER conference submissions entered.
+* Jun 2020: core unit tests and pipeline formal correctness proofs in place.
+* May 2020: first integer pipelines (ALU, Logical, Branch, Trap, SPR, ShiftRot, Mul, Div) and register files (XER, CR, INT, FAST, SPR) started.
+* Mar 2020: Coriolis2 Layout experiments successful. 6600 Memory Architecture
+ exploration started. OpenPOWER ISA decoder started. Two new people:
+ Alain and Jock.
* Feb 2020: OpenPower Foundation EULA released. Coriolis2 Layout experimentation begun. Dynamic Partitioned SIMD ALU created.
* Jan 2020: New team members, Yehowshua and Michael. Last-minute attendance of FOSDEM2020
* Dec 2019: Second round NLNet questions answered. External Review completed. 6 NLNet proposals accepted (EUR 200,000+)
# Evaluations
* [[openpower]]
+
+# Drivers
+
+* [[3d_gpu/opencl]]
+* [[3d_gpu/mesa]]
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