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Welcome back, Michael Gielda of Antmicro!

• Michael was on episode 519 talking about simulating embedded hardware using Renode
• He returned to talk about other projects that Antmicro is working on, especially those that are open source. The open source projects are indexed on the Antmicro open source site.
• Very niche stuff might be closed source, but people are surprised by what others might be interested in (if it were open sourced)
• Renode was the topic of our last interview
• AI is a new target of open source work. Antmicro recently released the Kenning framework
• Why another standard? Relevant XKCD
• Black boxes are bad for users
• LLVM has hundreds of people looking at the project
• CHIPS alliance
• Brian Faith from Quicklogic
• Sammy Cheung from Efinix
• Virtex Ultrascale PCI-E
• What happens when a proprietary licensed company goes bankrupt?
• Open source toolchain stuff
• RISC V: The ISA is common, but the cores are different.
• What is the center of gravity in the RISC V world? Many people are using SiFive.
• Chisel
• ETH Zurich – SystemVerilog
• UVM – Universal Verification Methodology
• Migen
• Verilator
• Zephyr bluetooth
• Abstraction as a response to chip shortage
• What if you wanted to do a fully open source flow? Let’s do a contrived security camera design example:
  • Xilinx 7 series or lattice ecp5 or crosslink nx
  • RISC V Vex
  • Linux + LiteX
  • LiteDRAM
  • Ethernet core – everything but the phy
  • Co simulate with verilator
  • Renode

• Episodes for open source toolchain

• Open source hw board using the Nvidia Jetson, manufactured by past guest Chris Osterwood
• Cutting down on iteration
• Chris mentions a past job that had 6 hour build cycles
• Accelerating workflows using compute power and parallelizing dev processes
• Chip design using AI (Google)
• Scalenode
• ARVSOM
• BeagleV
• DCSCM
• Open Compute Project
• Row Hammer
• Interested in working with Antmicro? Get in touch!

Comments

1. Troof says

   June 29, 2021 at 9:47 am

   Selling a service or IoT platform? Push open source.
   Selling innovation? Innovate.

   27 minutes in, you mention what happens when companies go out of business. What happens to customers when IoT server that your product depend on, shut down?

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