CHIPS Alliance Overview(Common Hardware for Interfaces, Processors and Systems)

Capitalize on the Energy of Open Source

Collaboration to Accelerate Hardware Development

What is CHIPS Alliance?

› Organization which develops and hosts high

quality, open source hardware code

› Group endeavors to create more open source

software development tools

› A barrier free environment for collaboration

› Shared resources which lower the cost of

hardware development

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Project Goals

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› Leverage common hardware development efforts so

• IP blocks can be broadly used

• Verification contributions benefit all

› Deliver high quality, open source CPU designs,

peripherals and complex IP blocks

• Known validated blocks that can be quickly adopted in silicon

and/or FPGAs

Project Deliverables

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› The scope of the Project includes hardware and software

design and development under an open source license

• SoC IP blocks based on RISC-V

• Open source software development tools

• Other high value IP

– Peripherals, Mixed Signal Blocks and Compute Acceleration

› Digital Projects will be developed with Verilog or System

Verilog

› Design simulation will be done with open source tools such

as Verilator

Ecosystem Participants

› Initial members: Google, Western Digital, Esperanto, SiFive

› Many additional members joining at the inaugural workshop

on June 19th

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Project Curation

› The technical committee will review project

proposals and accept those deemed to meet

the appropriate complexity and value

› A product maintainer will lead the project

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Community Outreach

› Workshops to be held at member

companies or universities

› June 19th Inaugural Workshop at

Google

› RISC-V members companies are

welcome

› Open to all organizations

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Workshop Agenda

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Innovators always had to build their own

tools

Solving the Analog IP bottleneck with BAG

Governance Model

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Governing

Board

oversees business decisions,

budgets, outreach,

marketing/events,

trademarks, etc.

Governing Board oversees business decisions, budgets,

outreach, marketing/events, trademarks, etc.

Technical Steering Committee decides on projects to be approved, top level

coordination across projects

Outreach Committeecoordinate evangelism, communication,

outreach, events, training

Project Maintainer and Technical Teamdeliver verified design and design

verification test benches

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CHIPS Alliance Organization

Board of Directors

Technical

Henry CookProject Maintainer Marketing

Interim Director

Ted Marena

Yunsup LeeZvonimir BandicDave DitzelRichard HoMore to be added

Membership

› Like other projects of the Linux Foundation,

this project is funded through membership

dues and contributed engineering resources

› Membership levels include:

Platinum, Gold, Silver, Auditor, Individual

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Why Join CHIPS Alliance

› Share resources to lower the cost of hardware

development

› Contribute to the development of open software

› Receive high quality, open source CPU designs

and complex IP blocks

› Known validated blocks that can be quickly adopted

› Open Source Collaboration and Diversity can

now benefit hardware

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See more: www.chipsalliance.org

Summary

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› Become part of the open source development solution

› Come to the June 19th workshop at Google

› Talk to us