OnChip Open-V Arduino Compatibility

February 17, 2017February 13, 2017 fustiniarduino, crowd supply, Crowdfunding, microcontroller, onchip, OnchipUIS, Open-V, risc-vLeave a comment

OnChip has posted a Crowd Supply update on their plans for Arduino compatibility:

Open-V Arduino Compatibility

Arduino compatibility can mean a lot of things to a lot of different people, so we’ll try to be as concrete and specific as possible. For the Open-V, Arduino development tools, and interoperating on a hardware level with existing Arduino shields.

We’ve updated our live, web-streamed demos to include an Arduino mode in addition to the assembler and C modes we already have. You might also notice the relatively new Blockly modes and a refined layout of the demo page. Go write some code and see the results live streamed!

OnChip Open Source RISC-V microcontroller at ORCONF 2016

October 23, 2016October 23, 2016 fustinionchip, ORCONF, risc-v, siliconLeave a comment

ORCONF 2016 was held earlier this month in Bologna, Italy:

ORCONF is an open source digital design and embedded systems conference, covering areas of electronics from the transistor level up to Linux user space and beyond. Expect presentations and discussion on free and open source IP projects, implementations on FPGA and in silicon, verification, EDA tools, licensing and embedded software, to name a few.

Begun as the annual OpenRISC developers and users conference, it has become a broad open source digital design-oriented event and is supported by FOSSi – the Free and Open Source Silicon Foundation.

Elkim Roa spoke about OnChip, an Open Source silicon microcontroller, designed by his research group at UIS (Universidad Industrial de Santander):

Fully-tested 32-bit RISC-V microcontroller in 130nm

The slides are available as PDF on GitHub:

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OnChipUIS has several repos on GitHub related to the project including:

mriscv: A 32-bit Microcontroller featuring a RISC-V core

A Completely Open Microcontroller

October 10, 2016October 10, 2016 fustinihackaday, onchip, risc-v, silicon2 Comments

An annotated mRISCV die imageI don’t know about you, but the idea of an Arduino-class microprocessor board which uses completely open silicon is a pretty attractive prospect to us. That’s exactly [onchipUIS]’s stated goal. They’re part of a research group at the Universidad Industrial de Santander and have designed and taped out a Cortex M0…

via A Completely Open Microcontroller — Hackaday

Not only have [onchipUIS] successfully bonded their chip, but they’ve done so using a chip on board process where the die is directly bonded to a PCB. They used OSHPark boards and described the process on Twitter.

@ico_TC Slower gif. Enough to see the bus connection to RAM and a flip-flop. #tech @SSCSociety @ieeecassociety #HappyOctober #MañanaVotoSí pic.twitter.com/9EopcditiQ

— onchip (@onchipUIS) October 1, 2016

OSH Park

Perfect Purple PCBs

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