This Friday, Hackaday.io will be graced with purveyors of open source Silicon. join us in the Hackaday.io Hack chat this Friday, April 14 at midday PDT (19:00 UTC) for a conversation with SiFive, an ‘Open’ silicon manufacturer.
This week, we’re sitting down with SiFive, a fabless semiconductor business as well as makers of the HiFive1, an open Hardware microcontroller that you can just go out as well as buy. Late last year, SiFive released the HiFive1, an Arduinofied version of SiFive’s FE310 System on Chip. This SoC is a RISC-V core as well as one of the very first microprocessors that is completely Open Source. It is an affront to Stallmanism, the very best hope we have for really open hardware, as well as it’s quite fast, to boot.
SiFive isn’t only working on open Hardware microcontrollers — their company plan is quite much, ‘OSH Park, however for silicon’. If you have a style for a new type of chip, they’ll work with foundries to turn your style into a adorable bit epoxy impregnated blob. It’s a interesting company plan, as well as you’re going to hear all about it this Friday in the Hack Chat.
Here’s exactly how To Take Part:
Our Hack Chats are online neighborhood events on the Hackaday.io Hack chat group messaging.
Log into Hackaday.io, see that page, as well as look for the ‘Join this Project’ Button. when you’re part of the project, the button will modification to ‘Team Messaging’, which takes you directly to the Hack Chat.
You don’t have to wait up until Friday; join whenever you want as well as you can see what the neighborhood is speaking about.
Upcoming Hack Chats
We’ve got a great deal on the table when it concerns our Hack Chats. On April 21st, we’re going to be talking magnets with Nanomagnetics. Making magnets, collecting magnets, playing with magnets, it’ll all be over on the Hack Chat.