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From the lowRISC blog:
We are looking for a talented hardware engineer to join the lowRISC team and help make our vision for an open source, secure, and flexible SoC a reality. Apply now!
lowRISC C.I.C. is a not-for-profit company that aims to demonstrate, promote and support the use of open-source hardware. The lowRISC project was established in 2014 with the aim of bringing the benefits of open-source to the hardware world. It is working to do this by producing a high quality, secure, open, and flexible System-on-Chip (SoC) platform. lowRISC C.I.C. also provides hardware and software services to support the growing RISC-V ecosystem. Our expertise includes the LLVM Compiler, hardware security extensions and RISC-V tools, hardware and processor design.
[...] lowRISC is an ambitious project with a small core team, so you will be heavily involved in the project's development direction. This role will involve frequent work with external contributors and collaborators. While much of the work will be at the hardware level the post will offer experience of the full hardware/software stack, higher-level simulation tools and architectural design issues.
Some practical experience of hardware design with a HDL such as Verilog/SystemVerilog is essential, as is a good knowledge of the HW/SW stack. Ideally, candidates will also have experience or demonstrated interest in some of: SoC design, large-scale open source development, hardware or software security, technical documentation, board support package development and driver development. Industrial experience and higher degree levels are valued, but we would be happy to consider an enthusiastic recent graduate with a strong academic record.
Informal enquires should be made to Alex Bradbury asb@lowrisc.org.
takyon (thanks to an AC): lowRISC is a project to create a "fully open-sourced, Linux-capable, system-on-a-chip"; it is based around RISC-V, the "Free and Open RISC Instruction Set Architecture", which is meant to provide an extensible platform that scales from low-level microcontrollers up to highly parallel, high-bandwidth general-purpose supercomputers.
Reduced instruction set computer (RISC).
Previously: RISC-V Projects to Collaborate
LowRISC Announces its 0.4 Milestone Release
SiFive and UltraSoC Partner to Accelerate RISC-V Development Through DesignShare
(Score: 4, Informative) by RamiK on Saturday September 23 2017, @09:56AM (2 children)
lowRISCs will be 64bit, 500-1500Mhz SoCs running linux and targeting network appliances and IoT. So, maybe a uC like the would be more up your alley. [sifive.com]
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by anubi on Monday September 25 2017, @10:23AM (1 child)
It is! Thanks!
I am always looking for something that should be available "forever". I hate like the dickens designing anything into industrial use knowing in ten years the thing may not be available, or no one with the skills to use such a "fashion-of-the-day" of ten years ago. The only language I much trust at all is C or C++ to know it should be known 50 years from now.
I was brought up on a farm, then onto the oil fields where a lot of stuff 100 years old was still doing what it was designed to do. When you go through all the trouble to build an infrastructure, whether it be an oil pump, railroad, or city water system, you do not go through all that effort to make something that has to be replaced. It has got to be there until it is deliberately removed. Well, that's just the way I see it anyway. When one builds something like this, one builds it to last.
( I doubt I will still be in service 10 years from now, and likely not available at all 20 years from now. But I design with anticipation that when the time comes, there will be people out there who can see what I did, and fix or improve it. )
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
(Score: 4, Informative) by RamiK on Tuesday September 26 2017, @03:10PM
Not sure about forever, but I'm fairly confident RISC-V microprocessors will become quite dominant in the next few years and will stay that way for a few decades at least. The specs are very modern and small so they just don't leave much to improve upon and you really can't argue with the price.
As for the higher-end RISC-Vs like lowRISC... That depends on Mill Computing ;)
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