From 8943e3b98c12e0ce83037bc409af38a6d2ce08da Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: lkcl Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2021 10:46:22 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] --- conferences/opentapeoutdev2021.mdwn | 44 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 44 insertions(+) diff --git a/conferences/opentapeoutdev2021.mdwn b/conferences/opentapeoutdev2021.mdwn index e8fd050b6..373e8d939 100644 --- a/conferences/opentapeoutdev2021.mdwn +++ b/conferences/opentapeoutdev2021.mdwn @@ -2,8 +2,52 @@ * * Jean-Paul Chaput presenting about coriolis2 +* Luke Leighton about Libre-SOC * +# Coriolis2 + +* by Jean-Paul + +# Libre-SOC + +by Luke Leighton. bio: + +Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton specialises in Libre Ethical Technology. +He has been using, programming and reverse-engineering computing +devices continuously for 44 years, has a BEng (Hons), ACGI, in Theory +of Computing from Imperial College, and recently put that education to +good use in the form of the Libre-SOC Project: an entirely +Libre-Licensed 3D Hybrid CPU-VPU-GPU based on OpenPOWER. He writes +poetry and has been developing a HEP Physics theory for the past 36 +years in his spare time. + +## Abstract: Overview of the Libre-SOC Project + +The Libre-SOC Project aims to provide a mass-volume processor with +3D and Video capability built-in to the ISA, for use in end-user products +such as smartphones netbooks chromebooks tablets and Industrial SBC/IoT. +It is a massive project, starting small and being developed "smart". + +Why it is being created - at all - can be easily guaged by examining +the littering of systematic failures by multiple large Corporations: +Intel Management Engine, Qualcomm leaving 40% of the world's smartphones +vulnerable to hijacking, Apple drive-by WIFI zero-exploits, Supermicro +de-listed from NASDAQ, Huawei, Smartphones shipping by default with +Trojans, and many others. + +Efforts to fix this (Fairphone) simply do not go far back enough down +the chain. Just as Google sees the only solution to Rowhammer to be +to create a Libre/Open LPDDR4 Memory PHY and Controller (because the +existing RTL providers cannot be trusted to solve it properly), we +see the only solution to be to take full responsibility for creating a +suitable full-on Embedded high-end multi-core System-on-a-Chip, done +entirely Libre. + +This talk will therefore provide a high-level overview into some of the +technical decisions behind the "why", in order to achieve such a +ridicuously-ambitious goal in a "smarter" (rather than "work harder") +innovative way. ##Open Source ASIC Conference -- 2.30.2