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SiFive, the first fabless provider of customized, open-source-enabled semiconductors, today announced that UltraSoC will provide debug and trace technology for the SiFive Freedom platform, based on the RISC-V open source processor specification as part of the DesignShare initiative. UltraSoC's embedded analytics IP will be available through the recently announced SiFive DesignShare ecosystem that gives any company, inventor or maker the ability to harness the power of custom silicon. UltraSoC's debug and trace functionality will enable users of the Freedom platform to access a wide variety of tools and interfaces to use in their developments.
The DesignShare concept enables an entirely new range of applications. Companies like SiFive, UltraSoC and other ecosystem partners have developed efficient, pre-integrated solutions to lower the upfront engineering costs required to bring a custom chip design based on the SiFive Freedom platform to realization. The partnership between SiFive, originator of the industry's first open-source chip platform, and UltraSoC, the industry leader in vendor-neutral on-chip debug and analytics tools, significantly strengthens the ecosystem surrounding RISC-V, the open source processor specification which is often dubbed "the Linux of the semiconductor industry."
[...] Rick O'Connor, executive director of the RISC-V Foundation, commented: "The idea behind the open source movement is that one doesn't have to design everything from scratch. The idea behind DesignShare is to help speed the development of new silicon designs by reducing the barriers of cost, process and integration that have traditionally held back innovation in the semiconductor industry. SiFive, UltraSoC and the other companies that are making their IP available through DesignShare are fundamentally enabling this revolution in an otherwise stagnant industry."
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Monday September 11 2017, @01:53AM (3 children)
(off topic, but, fuck it) Amen. I am in my late 30's and realizing that since about 30, everything feels like it was just two or three years ago when it was closer to ten years. It's scary how time just seems to disappear in "gaps". I was just at my friends daughters second birthday party and we were talking about a trip we all made and realized it was 15 years ago. We all agreed that it only felt like a few years ago so it must be universal.
My theory? As we age we slow down physically and fall into a routine that blends one week into the next. 10 Wake, shower, eat, commute, work, eat, work, commute, putter, eat, putter, sleep, GOTO 10. This goes on to the point where you can't tell one week from another. "Did I do that thing last week or last month?" becomes the norm. I believe the antidote is taking up a physical activity to keep moving and taking more trips. You have to break up that bland routine. This gif sums it up perfectly: https://giphy.com/gifs/never-cycle-ending-9hPjzuqQh8Bna [giphy.com]
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 11 2017, @02:08AM
> fall into a routine that blends one week into the next.
When you get older (I'm early 60s) it starts to seem more like internal clocks work on ratios:
+ from age 5 to 6 you age one year, or you are 20% older
+ from age 50 to 60 you age 10 years, also 20% older.
The two feel about the same subjectively (to me). New experiences are added a lot faster when young, we get jaded and don't do so many new things as we age. 20% more age adds about 20% more experiences.
(Score: 2) by crafoo on Monday September 11 2017, @01:23PM (1 child)
Sounds like you are comfortable. Enjoy it I guess. You don't necessarily have to live like this.
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Monday September 11 2017, @01:47PM
Yea, I've been in a rut lately. Changing little by little though.