-# RISC-V 3D GPU / CPU / VPU
+# Hybrid 3D GPU / CPU / VPU
+
+Creating a trustworthy processor for the world.
+
+Our [[3d_gpu/business_objectives]]
Note: this is a **hybrid** CPU, VPU and GPU. It is not, as many news articles
-are implying, a "dedicated exclusive GPU". The option exists to **create**
+are implying, a "dedicated exclusive GPU". The option exists to *create*
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 a libre-licensed VPU and GPU.
+(System-on-a-Chip) that happens to include libre-licensed VPU and GPU
+accelerated instructions as part of the actual - main - CPU itself.
-We seek investors, sponsors, engineers and potential customers, who are
+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
performance, pincount and price is the Allwinner A64, except that the
We can look at larger higher-power ASICs either later or, if funding
is made available, immediately.
-Recent applications to NLNet (Oct 2019) are for a test chip in 180nm, 64 bit, single core dual issue, around 300 to 350mhz. This will provide the confidence to go to higher geometries, as well as be a commercially viable embedded product in its own right.
-
-# Business Objectives
-
-* the project shall be a hybrid CPU-GPU because if it is not, the
- complexity involved in developing a split shared-memory CPU-GPU both
- at a hardware and a software level will be so costly it will jeapordise
- the project.
-* the project shall be commercial and mass-volume (100 million units
- and above)
-* the project shall be entirely transparent so that end-users will be
- able to trust it
-* the source code shall be available at all times for all components
- for BUSINESS reasons, making development and use of SDKs dead simple
- and aiding and assisting developers AND BUSINESSES in debugging and thus
- hugely saving them money.
-
-# Links:
-
-* [[shakti/m_class/libre_3d_gpu]]
-* [[discussion]]
-* [[resources]]
-* [[overview]]
-* [[3d_gpu/funding]]
-* Founding [[charter]]
-* Mailing list <http://lists.libre-riscv.org/pipermail/libre-riscv-dev/>
-* Crowdsupply page <https://www.crowdsupply.com/libre-risc-v/m-class>
-* Wiki <https://libre-riscv.org>
-* Git repositories <https://git.libre-riscv.org>
-* Bugtracker <http://bugs.libre-riscv.org>
-* Kazan Vulkan Driver (including 3D engine) <https://salsa.debian.org/Kazan-team/kazan>
-* [NLNet 2019 Milestones](http://bugs.libre-riscv.org/buglist.cgi?columnlist=assigned_to%2Cbug_status%2Cresolution%2Cshort_desc%2Ccf_budget&f1=cf_nlnet_milestone&o1=equals&query_format=advanced&resolution=---&v1=NLnet.2019.02)
-* NLNet Project Page <https://nlnet.nl/project/Libre-RISCV/>
-* [[nlnet_proposals]]
+Recent applications to NLNet (Oct 2019) are for a test chip in 180nm,
+64 bit, single core dual issue, around 300 to 350mhz. This will provide
+the confidence to go to higher geometries, as well as be a commercially
+viable embedded product in its own right. Tapeout deadline is Oct 2020.
# Progress:
+* 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+)
* Nov 2019: Alternative FP library to Berkeley softfloat developed. NLNet first round questions answered.
* Oct 2019: 3D Standards continued. POWER ISA considered. Open 3D Alliance begins. NLNet funding applications submitted.
* <https://www.reddit.com/r/RISCV/comments/db04j3/libreriscv_3d_cpugpu_seeks_grants_for_ambitious/>
* <https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/19/09/29/1845252/libre-risc-v-3d-cpugpu-seeks-grants-for-ambitious-expansion>
* <https://forums.puri.sm/t/risc-v-m-class-effort-and-purism-donation/6528/15>
+* Dec 2019 ProLinux <https://www.pro-linux.de/news/1/27527/comm/1/show-all-comments.html>
+* Dec 2019 Phoronix <https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/hardware/graphics-cards/1148553-libre-risc-v-accelerator-secures-300k-eur-in-grants-still-undecided-about-the-isa/>
+* Feb 15 2020 Phoronix <https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OpenPOWER-ISA-EULA-Draft/>
+* Feb 15 2020 Slashdot OpenPOWER article <https://news.slashdot.org/story/20/02/16/1743222/openpower-foundation-releases-eula-for-power-isa>
# Information Resources and Tutorials
+* Fundamentals to learn to get started [[3d_gpu/tutorial]]
* <https://github.com/timvideos/litex-buildenv/wiki/LiteX-for-Hardware-Engineers>
* <https://jeffrey.co.in/blog/2014/01/d-flip-flop-using-migen/>
* <http://lists.libre-riscv.org/pipermail/libre-riscv-dev/2019-March/000705.html>
# Evaluations
-*[[openpower]]
+* [[openpower]]
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