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A group of former STMicroelectronics engineers calling themselves
Simply RISC have released the S1 Core, a 64-bit Wishbone-compliant CPU
core based on the OpenSPARC T1 microprocessor released by Sun
Microsystems a few months ago.
The design is targeting embedded devices such as PDAs, set-top boxes and digital cameras.
Simply
RISC is offering the core for free under the same license of the TI,
the GNU General Public License (GPL), according to the group's web
site. The core is downloadable Simply RISC's site http://www.srisc.com/?home.
A group of former STMicroelectronics engineers calling themselves
Simply RISC have released the S1 Core, a 64-bit Wishbone-compliant CPU
core based on the OpenSPARC T1 microprocessor released by Sun
Microsystems a few months ago.
The design is targeting embedded devices such as PDAs, set-top boxes and digital cameras.
Simply
RISC is offering the core for free under the same license of the TI,
the GNU General Public License (GPL), according to the group's web
site. The core is downloadable Simply RISC's site http://www.srisc.com/?home.
The environment can run on any Unix/Linux
box and requires no commercial tools, since both simulation and
synthesis of the Verilog files of the design can be performed using the
free software, Icarus Verilog, the organization said.
Simply
RISC said it plans to add new features to the core and test them over
the next few months with the help of the open source community.
The
core's Wishbone-compliant bus interface enables easy interconnection to
several cores that are freely available on OpenCores.org to build
systems-on-chip.
The Simply RISC team has been working in
Catania, Italy and Bristol, UK to develop and support CPU cores,
peripherals and interfaces released under the GNU General Public
License to build up free hardware design of microprocessors,
Systems-on-a-Chip (SoC) and Networks-on-a-Chip (NoC).
Future
designs, such as SoCs and peripherals, will be publicly released on
Simply RISC's site, on OpenSPARC.net and on OpenCores.org.
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