Another successful RAMP retreat
We had another successful RAMP retreat on August 19th and 20th. Over the last two years of our association, we have effectively used RAMP community to drive OpenSPARC feature development and to connect with professors/industry partners.
We demonstrated and presented three topics this time (Slides from this and previous RAMP retreats are located here. Search for "OpenSPARC".)
- OpenSolaris running on OpenSPARC FPGA Development board based on Virtex5 technology by Xilinx
- Dual board reference design implementing dual-core T1 on FPGAs
- Support for Bee3 board by BeeCube - a spin-off from UC Berkeley
Few highlights from the OpenSPARC perspective:
- Thomas Thatcher and Paul Hartke did a really nice job presenting OpenSPARC updates to the RAMP community
- Fully functional 4-thread OpenSPARC T1 reference design booting OpenSolaris on a Bee3 board from Beecube
- Strong interest from many professors in acquiring OpenSPARC evaluation kit
Lot of hard work goes on behind the scene around such events to show continuing technical progress on OpenSPARC side. I would like to thank everyone involved, especially those involved in getting dual-core/board reference design functional in a very short time. This, together with the kit and the Bee3 port, we clearly showed the compelling and relevant progress to the RAMP community.
