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July 28, 2015 08:00 am
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/EtnmUXJKfTk/project-icestorm-passes-another-milestone-building-a-cpu
Project IceStorm Passes Another Milestone: Building a CPU
beckman101 writes: FPGAs — specialized, high speed chips with large arrays of configurable logic — are usually highly proprietary. Anyone who has used one is familiar with the buggy and node-locked accompanying tools that FPGA manufacturers provide. Project IceStorm aims to change that by reverse-engineering some Lattice FPGAs to produce an open-source toolchain, and today it passed a milestone. The J1 open-source CPU is building under IceStorm, and running on real hardware. The result is a fairly puny microcontroller, but possibly the world's most open one.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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