Free and Open Source Silicon Foundation

Working together for Free and Open Source Silicon

Technologies
verilog, risc-v, compiler, web development
Topics
hardware, debug, web services, simulation, electronic design tools
Working together for Free and Open Source Silicon
The FOSSi (Free and Open Source Silicon) Foundation is a not-for-profit organization with the support the growing community of open source silicon hardware. We do this with a variety of activities and through Google Summer of Code we bring together enthusiastic mentees and outstanding projects. Under our umbrella are open source silicon hardware projects, operating systems and compilers for such projects, tools for electronic design automation and the related ecosystem.
2022 Program

Successful Projects

Contributor
Yihua Liu
Mentor
Jonathan Balkind, Benjamin Darnell
Organization
Free and Open Source Silicon Foundation
Enhancing the Sootty Terminal-based Graphical Waveform Viewer
Sootty is a novel graphical waveform viewer targeted at modern terminals, however, it currently only supports VCD format and decimal system, not...
Contributor
Jason Liang
Mentor
Philipp Wagner, Tim Edwards
Organization
Free and Open Source Silicon Foundation
IRSIM Dynamic Power Analysis and Other Improvements
Large digital designs are prone to consume lots of power and thus, a tool for power analysis is needed. There are two types of power analyses:...
Contributor
L Lakshmanan
Mentor
Jonathan Balkind, Benjamin Darnell
Organization
Free and Open Source Silicon Foundation
Improving Query Language Features in Sootty
My proposal aims to make Sootty, a CLI waveform viewer, a more utilitarian and intuitive tool to use, by adding features that I believe it would...
Contributor
Ali Imran
Mentor
Steve Hoover, Mohamed Kassem
Organization
Free and Open Source Silicon Foundation
Development Framework for Open MPW Shuttles
Efabless, Google, and SkyWater Technologies, through the Open MPW and ChipIgnite programs, provide free ASIC fabrication. To help streamline the...
Contributor
Dragoș Cristian Lizan
Mentor
Jonathan Balkind, Fabian Schuiki, Martin Erhart
Organization
Free and Open Source Silicon Foundation
Logical Equivalence Checks with CIRCT
The CIRCT project is an open-source effort to develop Circuit Intermediate Representations, Compilers, and Tools by applying the MLIR and LLVM...
Contributor
Gergely Bálint
Mentor
Jonathan Balkind
Organization
Free and Open Source Silicon Foundation
Enhancing AnyCore, a superscalar RISC-V processor
AnyCore is an advanced superscalar processor developed at NC State University, designed to be highly configurable across parameters like issue width...
Contributor
Shrihari
Mentor
Steve Hoover, Theodore Omtzigt
Organization
Free and Open Source Silicon Foundation
1st CLaaS for PYNQ FPGAs
Utilizing cloud FPGAs prove to be very expensive and minor coding bugs could consume precious compute cycles and incur hefty bills. This proves using...
Contributor
Kinza Qamar Zaman
Mentor
Olof Kindgren, Dan Petrisko, Mark Wyse
Organization
Free and Open Source Silicon Foundation
TinyParrot: A minimal BlackParrot RISC-V Multicore variant
This project aims to shrink BlackParrot multicore to have a minimal variant called TinyParrot multicore. The main goal of this project is to get very...