[Fsuk-manchester] Fwd: [UKUUG-Announce] UKUUG - BCS - OSSG Event 17th October 2011

[Michael Dorrington]

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Subject: [UKUUG-Announce] UKUUG - BCS - OSSG Event 17th October 2011
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 13:42:29 +0000
From: Jane Morrison <address@hidden>
Organisation: UKUUG
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Open Source Software Meets Open Source Hardware: OpenCores and the OpenRISC
1000 architecture

London 17/10/11

Event URL: http://ossg.bcs.org/2011/09/10/open-source-software-meets-open-
source-hardware-opencores-and-the-openrisc-1000-architecture-london-171011/

Jeremy Bennett of http://www.embecosm.com/ will give a presentation on Open
Source Software Meets Open Source  Hardware: OpenCores and the OpenRISC
1000
architecture for The BCS Open Source Specialist Group (OSSG)

at the BCS Central London Offices, First  Floor, The Davidson  Building, 5
Southampton Street, London WC2E 7HA (http://www.bcs.org/upload/pdf/london-
office-guide.pdf) on Monday 17th October 2011, from 1830 to 2100 hours.


This bookable event is free and open to all with buffet and
refreshments. To
book a place to attend please email Mark Elkins at address@hidden

OpenRISC was conceived in 1999 as a project to specify a RISC
processor architecture and hardware implementations that were entirely
open source.

The OpenRISC 1200 was the first implementation of that architecture.
It has been in use for around a decade and is powerful enough to run
Linux. Now on its third revision, the processor is widely used in
research projects, and has also been used in a number of commercial
products.

The project has spawned a host of peripheral hardware components, so
that several complete systems-on-chip are now available. All are open
source and hosted on www.opencores.org.

Any modern chip relies heavily on software. Tools to design the chip,
software tool chains for programs to run on the chip and operating
system infrastructure. For OpenRISC, nearly all that has also been
achieved using open source software.

This talk will introduce the OpenRISC 1000 project, focussing
particularly on the role of open source software. Involving hardware
leads to some interesting open source licensing problems, which will be
addressed in the presentation.

The final part of the talk will be a practical demonstration of
OpenRISC in action, using both hardware and the architectural simulator.
 All the software will be available on DVD and attendees with Linux
laptops are invited to join in the practical part.

Timetable:

18:30 Buffet and refreshments
19:00 Introduction to OpenRISC 1000
20:00 Break (Buffet and refreshments continued) and opportunity to
install the
OpenRISC simulator and tool chain.
20:20 Demonstration of the OpenRISC 1000 in use.
                                

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