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Thursday May 15, 2008

New release of OpenSPARC T1

Here comes one more exciting announcement from the OpenSPARC team. We just released version 1.6 of OpenSPARC T1. You can read up the details and download the design from OpenSPARC T1 download page but here are some salient features of this release:

• You can now boot OpenSolaris on the OpenSPARC T1 core mapped on Xilinx ML505-XC5VLX110T board.
• You can choose single-thread or four-thread T1 core to build your own system. Yeah, this is truly multi-threaded hardware on the FPGAs
• You can connect the board to the network and use telnet and ftp applications

Team has been working towards this milestone for a long time and last two releases have been stepping stones towards this outcome. So we are really happy to get this out. This has also been a very effective collaboration between OpenSPARC team at Sun and the Xilinx University Program. Without the FPGA technology expertise of our Xilinx colleagues, this wouldn't have been possible.

So keep on innovating, folks!

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