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• Motorola 68000 support ready in Retro-uC

  Staf Verhaegen • 06/18/2018 at 21:24 • 1 comment

  The Motorola 68000 support in the Retro-uC has been finished. More details can be found in my blog post; the release can be found on gitlab.

  If there people who fancy porting the Retro-uC to another FPGA, don't hesitate to contact me.

• Retro-uC Blink Demo on XLR8

  Staf Verhaegen • 05/01/2018 at 14:10 • 0 comments

  I made a video of a demo of the Retor-uC running on the Alorium XLR8 FPGA board. Please find all details in a blog post on the chipsmakers.io blog.

  I am interested to know what you think, so don't hesitate to comment here.
  

• Retro-uC Crowdfunding Campaign Product Options

  Staf Verhaegen • 01/31/2018 at 19:41 • 0 comments

  The technical stuff seems to finally converge to a phase that launching of the Retro-uC campaign is getting close. In the current state four product options are planned: a chip, a breadboardable board, a prototyping board and a stand-alone board with Arduino MEGA IO layout.

  The details are given in my latest blog post. All feedback and suggestions for improvement are welcome here. Do realise I may only be able to reply when I'm back from FOSDEM next weekend.
  

• 34C3 inspiration and buzzwords pt. 3

  Staf Verhaegen • 01/02/2018 at 22:24 • 0 comments

  Inspired by the vibe I felt at the 34C3 conference I wrote my third part of the buzzwords article.

  I really hope to be able to report more technical things in the short term but I am focusing currently on getting the production flow ready and discussions are going slow. Some changes should pup op on the gitlab repository in the coming days/weeks.

• The importance of crowdfunding

  Staf Verhaegen • 11/26/2017 at 15:21 • 0 comments

  In my second part of the buzzwords article for this project I am discussing crowdfunding and why I think it is an important piece of the puzzle for low-volume open silicon.

  It's also mentioned in the article that currently I am busy discussing the cost and the flow of the production run before officially launching the campaign. When this is finished I will be able to share more public information.

• Blog on hackster.io

  Staf Verhaegen • 11/25/2017 at 15:26 • 0 comments

  The Retro-uC project was mentioned in a blog post on hackster.io.
  

• The importance of Open Source

  Staf Verhaegen • 11/12/2017 at 17:03 • 0 comments

  In order to provide some more background on the reason of existence of the Chips4Makers project I started writing some blog posts. Guided by some often used buzzwords I discuss my motivations for the project. In a first part I tackle the importance of Open Source.
  

• ORConf 2017 video

  Staf Verhaegen • 10/13/2017 at 13:41 • 0 comments

  The videos of ORConf 2017 have been posted. The Chips4Makers video is part of them. Don't hesitate to let your ideas, remarks, etc. be known.

  My RFC: Is open source from Venus and commercial from Mars talk provides more background on my reasons for doing this project.
  

  In the background progress is made which should results in more posts with details RSN (Real Soon Now).

• Chips4Makers @ ORConf 2017

  Staf Verhaegen • 09/12/2017 at 22:14 • 0 comments

  The goals and plans for the Chips4Makers project were presented at ORConf 2017 (slides). The first version of the source containing a Z80 and JTAG interface for the XLR8 Arduino-compatible FPGA board was released on gitlab.

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