OpenSPARC Community Innovation Awards Contest
The OpenSPARC Community Innovation Awards Contest is part of Sun's $1 Million Open Source Community Innovation Awards Program, and will be responsible for awarding $175,000 of the $1 Million total prize. The contest runs from January 28 until June 30, 2008. Contest submissions will be judged during the month of July, and awards will be given out during the month of August.
The OpenSPARC Community Innovation Awards Contest is part of Sun's $1 Million Open Source Community Innovation Awards Program, and will be responsible for awarding $175,000 of the $1 Million total prize. The OpenSPARC Contest awards categories and award amounts are as follows:
OpenSPARC Contest categories and award amounts:
- A. Grand Prize: $35,000
- B. First Prizes: ($20,000 each category)
- i.Best University level Lab Project based on OpenSPARC:
- ii. Best University level Computer Architecture and/or VLSI course
- iii. Best Architecture White paper or Application Notes
- iv. Best New Bus Interface creation as a contribution to the OpenSPARC community
- v. Best Demo of an application running on an FPGA
- vi. Best Adaptation of a single-thread application to a multi-thread CMT (Chip Multi Threaded) environment
- vii. Best submission that makes a substantial contribution to the OpenSPARC community and does not constitute any of the above described Categories
The Grand Prize winner will also be the First Prize Winner in the Category for which the Entry was submitted.
The OpenSPARC Contest will be judged by the OpenSPARC Contest Jury Panel, a group of OpenSPARC industry experts selected from within the OpenSPARC community representing a diverse background of expertise and experience.
- Fred DeSantis, retire technology executive, former Vice President, SPARC Volume Processors, Sun Microsystem's Microelectronics Group
- Renu Raman, Executive-in-Residence, Tallwood Venture Capital
- Professor Jose Renau, University of California, Santa Cruz, Department of Computer Engineering
- Paul Hartke, Xilinx University Program, Xilinx Corporation
- Professor Preeti Ranjan Panda, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi
- Peggy Aycinena, Editor, EDA Confidential & Contributing Editor EDA Weekly
Please read the complete contest rules.
for more information and the full contest rules and regulations.
We attempted to make this contest available to all countries across the
globe, but due to various laws of many countries, we were restricted in
which countries that this contest is offered in.
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OpenSPARC T2 version 1.1 was just released. New Features in release 1.1 include:
- Included Network Interface Unit (NIU) source code in the distribution.
- OpenSPARC T2 System-on-chip (SoC) micro-architecture document has a new chapter on NIU. The document now is also divided in two volumes to reduce the size of the each book.
- Verification and synthesis are now supported on x64 hardware platform running on GNU kernel Linux 2.6 and above
- Simulation environment now also supports Cadence NC-Verilog simulator. It is still required to have Synopsys Vera for the testbench components written in Vera language.
- SPARC Architecture Model (SAM) now supports Solaris operating system running on x64 hardware platform
- SAM has new user interface for better usability and more functionality
- Fix Open Boot PROM (OBP) build script for niagara1-hw and niagara2-hw platforms
Released on May 10, was version 1.6 of OpenSPARC T1. New Features in the release 1.6 are:
- T1 core supports single- and four-thread options on FPGAs
- Reference designs boot OpenSolaris on single- or four-thread mode
- Xilinx Virtex-5 technology support
- Networking (ftp, telnet) support
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