News UltraSoC announces Bristol engineering facility plans

When the article talks of open source is that the same sort of open source that instantly springs to mind, as in anyone can contribute changes, as in a collaborative driven design of the architecture, as in this bit should go hear, this bit needs changing.

If so that sounds really cool, I wouldn't have a clue what's what but it must be really interesting if you do.

 

@Corky42 Not sure how deep you want to delve into things, but the problem mentioned in the article linked below is one of the issues this whole Risc-V thing is trying to solve:

http://www.eetimes.com/author.asp?section_id=36&doc_id=1287656

Of course the potential with open source regarding HW / ISA extends beyond whats mentioned, but its a start.