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Wednesday, April 6 • 11:05am - 11:55am
Building a CPU from Scratch: jcore Design Walkthrough - Rob Landley & Jeff Dionne, se-instruments

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When the SuperH patents expired in 2014, the j-core.org open hardware project created a new instruction-set compatible implementation and released the VHDL source under a BSD license, documenting the hardware and software build processes to boot Linux on a $50 FPGA board. Now we're inviting software developers who've never done hardware development before to come give it a try.

Even though j-core uses an existing instruction set, the implementation is all new. This is a walkthrough of the j-core processor and SOC designs, aimed at software developers who would like to learn hardware development. It provides a basic introduction to VHDL, the GHDL simulator, and answers the question "how do I stick a 'printf' into my FPGA bitstream?"
Speakers
JD

Jeff Dionne

CEO, se-instruments.com
Jeff Dionne surfaced from the hardware world in the late 90's to create the uClinux project which ported linux to nommu embedded hardware. Then in 2003 he handed it off, moved to Japan, and went back to hardware development. These days he's CEO of se-instruments.com, where he started and maintains the j-core open processor project, which is compatible with the superh instruction set... Read More →
RL

Rob Landley

Hobbyist & Geek, Hobbyist
I've been doing Linux for 20 years now. I maintain toybox and mkroot. I used to maintain busybox and the linux kernel Documentation directory and website. I wrote the initramfs documentation. I started the first GPL enforcement lawsuits, and created the 0BSD license to make up for... Read More →

Wednesday April 6, 2016 11:05am - 11:55am PDT
Harbor Ballroom B
  Embedded Linux Conference, Intermediate

Attendees (45)