Open Source Silicon: Where software ends and hardware begins
summary
Open source silicon covers building complete chips using free RTL, toolchains and workflows to avoid vendor lock‑in while gaining lower cost, auditability and flexibility. It reviews 20 years of work and a recent surge of contributions from industry, academia and hobbyists, and demonstrates tools like RISC‑V CPU designs, the LibreCores repository, FuseSoC for packaging/dependencies, yosys for RTL synthesis, plus CI and modern language tooling applied to hardware projects.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Welcome
- 1:33Open source silicon intro
- 12:34History of open chips
- 20:19Software vs hardware openness
- 25:31Open silicon success cases
- 31:37Hardware dev challenges
- 35:33Latin America impact
- 39:05Open silicon future
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