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<h1 class="display-5">Welcome to Libre-SOC</h1>
<blockquote>
- <p>We're building a chip. A fast chip. A safe chip. A trusted chip.</p>
+ <p>We're building a chip. A fast chip. A safe chip. A trusted chip.
+ </p>
- <p>A chip with lots of peripherals. And a VPU. And a 3D GPU...</p>
+ <p>A chip with lots of peripherals. And it's a VPU. And it's a 3D GPU...
+ </p>
- <p>Oh and here, have the <a href="http://git.libre-riscv.org">source code</a>...</p>
+ <p>Oh and here, have the
+ <a href="http://git.libre-soc.org">Libre-SOC source code</a>...
+ </p>
</blockquote>
<hr class="my-4">
<p>A few names come to mind:</p>
<ul>
-<li><a href="https://www.raspberrypi.org">Raspberry Pi</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.arduino.cc">Arduino</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.raptorcs.com">Raptor Computing Systems</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.bitcraze.io">CrazyFlie</a></li>
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-
-
# Our Team
-We are proud of our talented and diverse [team](about_us).
+We are proud of our talented and diverse [team](about_us)
+located all across the world: UK US Canada Germany Greece India
+Kuwait.
# Our sponsors and partners
+* [NLnet](https://nlnet.nl) who have very kindly sponsored us with
+ over EUR 550,000 in various separate grants.
+* [NGI POINTER](https://www.ngi.eu/ngi-projects/ngi-pointer/) who have
+ sponsored us with a EUR 200,000 Horizon 2020 Grant.
+* [Mythic Beasts](http://mythic-beasts.com) who don't overcommit on
+ their VPS allocations (no memory ballooning), and put servers on
+ the fastest backbone Internet points.
* [Purism](http://puri.sm) donates to us through [NLNet](nlnet)
charitable gifting
* [Raptor CS](http://raptorcs.com) has given us access to a powerful
interface (more to come)
* [MarketNext](http://marketnext.org) is helping us connect to developer
resources in Emerging markets, for completion of NLNet-funded tasks.
- See the upcoming [Hackathon](https://www.youtube.com/embed/Px6eakWja3Q"),
- deadline May 15th
* The [[PowerPC Notebook]] Project
+* [RED Semiconductor](http://redsemiconductor.com) is the commercial realisation of Libre-SOC technology that respects and actively supports Libre principles in its business objectives.
+* [[fed4fire]] for supercomputer access for verilator simulations,
+ with thanks to Ghent University / IMEC.
# How Can I Help?
individual you can donate tax-free to NLNet, and they can in turn gift
our developers. Contact lkcl@lkcl.net for more information.
-# How Can I Help as a Developer?
+# How Can I Help as a Developer? <a name="help_as_developer"></a>
If you want to write code with us (and receive donations from NLNet
for doing so), keep reading. If you want to *learn*
just get in touch on the list, there is plenty to do.
1. First, join the
- [mailing list](http://lists.libre-riscv.org/mailman/listinfo/libre-riscv-dev),
- introduce yourself (people will happily say "hello" back"). Read through
- [recent posts](http://lists.libre-riscv.org/pipermail/libre-riscv-dev/)
- and the [[charter]], and let everyone know, on the list that you're
- happy with it and agree to it.
+ [mailing list](http://lists.libre-soc.org/mailman/listinfo/libre-soc-dev),
+ introduce yourself (people will happily say "hello" back) and
+ the Libera IRC channel
+ (#libre-soc at irc.libera.chat port 6697, see
+https://libera.chat/guides/connect),
+ it's also accessible via Libera.Chat's Matrix Bridge
+ (`#libre-soc:libera.chat`)
+ [logs here](https://libre-soc.org/irclog/latest.log.html).
+ Read through
+ [recent posts](http://lists.libre-soc.org/pipermail/libre-soc-dev/)
+ and the [[charter]], ask questions if you have any and let everyone know,
+ on the list that you're happy with it and agree to it.
2. The next thing you should do is read through the
- [bugs list](http://bugs.libre-riscv.org) and
+ [bugs list](http://bugs.libre-soc.org) and
see if there are any bugs that pique your interest.
A fascinating way to do that is to view the
[dependency graph](https://bugs.libre-soc.org/showdependencygraph.cgi?id=1&display=web&rankdir=LR)
3. After that, go ahead and take a look at the
- [git repositories](https://git.libre-riscv.org).
+ [git repositories](https://git.libre-soc.org).
4. If you plan to do HDL work, you should familiarize yourself with our
[[HDL_workflow]]. If you would like to help with the ASIC layout,
see [[HDL_workflow/coriolis2]]
## Quick peek at the code
-Here is an example process of how to play with the soc code:
-
- pip3 install virtualenv requests
- mkdir ~/.virtualenvs && cd ~/.virtualenvs
- python3 -m venv libresoc
- source ~/.virtualenvs/libresoc/bin/activate
-
- cd ~; mkdir libresoc; cd libresoc
- git clone https://git.libre-riscv.org/git/nmutil.git
- git clone https://git.libre-riscv.org/git/ieee754fpu.git
- git clone https://git.libre-riscv.org/git/soc.git
-
- cd nmutil; pip3 install -e .; cd ..
- cd ieee754fpu; pip3 install -e .; cd ..
- cd soc; git submodule init; git submodule update; pip3 install -e .; cd ..
-
- python3 soc/src/soc/decoder/power_decoder.py
- yosys -p "read_ilang decoder.il; show dec31"
+The full install process may be automated using scripts found
+here: <https://git.libre-soc.org/?p=dev-env-setup.git;a=summary>
+which you can clone with:
+
+ git clone https://git.libre-soc.org/git/dev-env-setup.git
+
+A convenient page which gives easy step-by-step instructions is:
+[[HDL_workflow/devscripts]], and you can get started with a
+[[docs/firststeps]] tutorial.
## How can I learn?
We also need to find a c++ engineer with compiler experience to work on
a MESA 3D driver. This will begin life similar to SwiftShader however
-retaining the vectorisation and predication intrinsics as well as hardware
-accelerated opcodes (all of which SwiftShader lacks)
+retaining the vectorisation and predication intrinsics then adding
+hardware accelerated opcodes (all of which SwiftShader lacks)
Also, individuals with experience in formal mathematical verification
are quite welcome.
-# [Documentation](Documentation/SOC/index)
+# Documentation
+
+ - [Source Code](/docs/)
+ - [Architecture](3d_gpu/architecture)
+
+# Autism and Asperger's
+
+A number of our team have Autism, specifically a variant called Asperger's.
+Please be mindful and aware when interacting with us. More information
+may be found here:
+
+* <https://foodforthebrain.org/autism/>
+* <https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Grrbekq-6kw>