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W04 OSHEAN - Open Source Hardware European Alliances and iNitiatives

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Organiser
Christian Fabre, CEA, France

 

The OSHEAN (Open Source Hardware European Alliances Network) workshop aims to contribute to the emergence of a European open source hardware ecosystem for ultra-low power (ULP), secure, microprocessors, microcontrollers and accelerators. The presentations and panels will cover the full value chain of open source hardware with speakers from academia, foundations and forums, to industries.

They will enable discussion with the audience on how to develop and grow a European open source hardware ecosystem. We will address key issues such as technical roadmap and gaps for open source hardware, opportunities in academic research, open source development sustainability, reliability of the open source IPs, funding and business aspects. Addressed topics will also cover legal and governance aspects of open source hardware e.g. licensing, governance, liability and regulatory issues.

Organizers and speakers originate from all the open source value chain and covers key technologies for edge applications in all power and performance ranges from deeply embedded to high-end computing, and other key aspects of hardware development that are key to open source acceptance: compilation, open source design tools, simulation, verification, real-time and mixed criticality, including certification guidelines for design of IP for safe/secure applications.

Attendees will be able to participate in the start-up of a community whose objective is to create a strong European ecosystem in open source hardware.

OSHEAN Workshop Program
08:30 Opening:
08:30 08:40 Christian Fabre (CEA) Welcome & introduction
08:40 09:00 John D. Davis (BSC) How do we see the challenges in open source hardware?
09:00 Session on Open Source Hardware Technologies
moderated by Davide Schiavone (OpenHW Group)
Open Source Hardware (HW) is becoming de facto an industrial standard with an increasing population of available IPs that range from ultra-low-power edge-computing platforms to high-performance, high-end systems. Particularly, RISC-V systems arise interest among processors developers and users thanks to it simple and extendable, yet performant instruction-set architecture (ISA) among a wide range of performance requirements. In this session, alongside a strategic view on RISC-V in the industry, several IPs will be presented to show how open source is shaping the future of academic and industrial solutions. There will be showcases on open source artificial intelligence architectures as well as secure microprocessors.
09:00 09:20 Davide Rossi (Univ. di Bologna) Open Source HW for IoT and its impact on the Industrial Ecosystem: the PULP Experience
09:20 09:40 Yves Durand (CEA) RISC-V & accelerators: enabling variable precision FP computing
09:40 10:00 Gavin Ferris (lowRISC) lowRISC’s Collaborative Framework for Open Source Silicon Design
10:00 10:30 Q&A and discussion with speakers on Open Source HW technologies.
10:30 11:00 Break
11:00 Session on Open Source Software & Support Technologies for Open Source Hardware
moderated by Jérôme Quévremont (Thales)
Besides IP blocks addressed in the previous session, open source hardware requires several software technologies that benefit from open source collaboration. First of all software development tools, such as compilers, debugger, bootloaders, operating system, runtime frameworks, etc. Then design tools like FPGA compilers, CAD tools, simulators, emulators, validation tools, etc. Finally yet importantly, security benefits from open source at every level of the hardware and software stack. This session will report on several contributions these support technologies, and discuss the main upcoming issues of this field.
11:00 11:15 Michael Gielda (Antmicro) Supporting open source hardware to enable commercial adoption
11:15 11:30 Roger Ferrer Ibanez (BSC) Adding support for RISC-V “V” vector extension in LLVM.
11:30 11:45 Stefan Mangard (TU Graz) Improving security through open source hardware
11:45 12:00 Frédéric Pétrot (Grenoble INP/TIMA) Simulation of RISC-V 128-bit extension in QEMU
12:00 12:30 Q&A and discussion with the speakers on Open Software & Support Technologies for Open Source Hardware.
12:30 13:30 Lunch
13:30 Keynote by Calista Redmond (RISC-V International):
RISC-V Open Era of Computing: Innovation, adoption, and opportunity in Europe and beyond

moderated by Christian Fabre (CEA)
RISC-V is the undisputed lead architecture that has ushered in a profound new open era in compute. The innovations and implementations of RISC-V span from embedded to enterprise, from IoT to HPC. RISC-V is delivering on extensions, tools, and investments of a global community ranging from start-ups to multi-nationals, from students to research fellows. This talk will highlight that progress and opportunity, with an invitation to engage
14:00 Panel on Licensing, Funding, Cooperation & Regulation
moderated by Andrew Katz (Open Forum Europe)
There are several non-technical challenges for Open Source Hardware that should be addressed on the regulatory and policy level. There is a need for researching funding mechanisms that could increase Europe's influence and the level of participation of and cooperation between SMEs, academia and large companies, as well as a clarification of the regulatory and licensing issues that might stifle innovation. Are there policy solutions that can support such developments and Open Source Hardware initiatives? Who can be a driver of change? In this panel the panellists will discuss these pertinent issues and share their experiences.
14:00 14:05 Andrew Katz (Open Forum Europe) Introduction of the panel's topics and panelists
14:05 14:10 Mike Milinkovich (Eclipse Foundation) After eating software, Open is “eating” everything!
14:10 14:15 Romano Hoofman (Europractice) EUROPRACTICE as Breeding Ground for European Open Source Hardware Initiatives
14:15 14:20 Javier Serrano (CERN) Funding open source hardware: getting the best from publicly funded research through commercial partnerships
14:20 14:25 Arian Zwegers (Head of Sector, European Commission) Reinforcing large-scale design capacities: a partial view from a funding agency
14:25 14:30 Calista Redmond (RISC-V International) Building European RISC-V Leadership in Global Open Source Hardware
14:30 14:35 Andrew Katz (Open Forum Europe) What are legal challenges for widespread use of open source HW? What are the licensing issues?
14:35 15:30 Panel on Licensing, Funding, Cooperation & Regulation.
15:30 15:45 Break
15:45 Panel on Industrial Concerns
moderated by Frank K. Gürkaynak (ETH Zürich)
Open source hardwarre, especially around the RISC-V architecture has been a talking point in the recent years. There has been a rapid development and from humble beginnings where open source hardware was a niche between enthusiasts and academics, today we have multi-billion dollar companies and recently a commitment from the European Commission to support work in open source hardware. In this session, we would like to go beyond the buzz and discuss with people involved in industry what opportunities they see, what the potential roadblocks are and what they think is still missing.
15:45 15:50 Frank K. Gürkaynak (ETH Zürich) Introduction of the panel's topics and panelists
15:50 15:55 Rick O'Connor (OpenHW Group) OpenHW CORE-V: RISC-V open-source cores for high volume production SoCs
15:55 16:00 Loïc Lietar (GreenWaves) Leveraging open source hardware in commercial products: benefits and challenges
16:00 16:05 Matthias Hiller (Fraunhofer, ECSO) Can open source HW address industrial concerns for cybersecurity and trusted electronics?
16:05 16:10 Jean-Christian Kircher(Bosch France) Industrial requirements for open source hardware
16:10 16:15 Thierry Collette (Thales) THALES' perspectives on open source hardware
16:15 16:20 Zdeněk Přikryl (Codasip)  
16:20 17:15 Panel with the speakers on Industrial concerns of open source hardware.
17:15 Closing

 

The organizers of the OSHEAN workshop are:

  • John D. Davis, Group Manager of the European Exascale Accelerator at Barcelona Supercomputing Center (Spain). Organiser of workshops on RISC-V and OpenPOWER.
  • Christian Fabre, Research Engineer at CEA LIST (Grenoble, France). Organiser of workshops on RISC-V and open source hardware.
  • Benedikt Gierlichs, research expert on embedded security at KU Leuven (Belgium).
  • Paula Grzegorzewska, Senior Policy Advisor at OpenForum Europe (Brussels, Belgium).
  • Frank K. Gürkaynak, senior scientist of the group of Digital Circuits & Systems, Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering (D-ITET), ETH Zurich (Switzerland).
  • Jérôme Quévremont, open hardware project leader at Thales R&T (Palaiseau, France), and contributes to RISC-V International and the OpenHW Group.
  • Davide Rossi is Associate Professor at University of Bologna (Italy) contributing to open source hardware since 2013 though the PULP project.
  • Davide Schiavone is Director of Engineering at OpenHW Group and coordinator of the OpenHW Europe Working Group under the Eclipse Foundation (Germany).
  • Stefan Wallentowitz, professor at Munich University of Applied Sciences (Germany), director, Free and Open Source Silicon Foundation, & board member, RISC-V International.

W04.0 Opening

Session Start
Session End
Session chair
Christian Fabre, CEA, France
Presentations

W04.0.1 Welcome & introduction

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End
Speaker
Christian Fabre, CEA, France

W04.0.2 How do we see the challenges in open source hardware?

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End
Speaker
John Davis, BSC, Spain

W04.1 Open Source Hardware Technologies

Session Start
Session End
Session chair
Davide Schiavone, OpenHW Group, Italy

Open Source Hardware (HW) is becoming de facto an industrial standard with an increasing population of available IPs that range from ultra-low-power edge-computing platforms to high-performance, high-end systems. Particularly, RISC-V systems arise interest among processors developers and users thanks to it simple and extendable, yet performant instruction-set architecture (ISA) among a wide range of performance requirements. In this session, alongside a strategic view on RISC-V in the industry, several IPs will be presented to show how open source is shaping the future of academic and industrial solutions. There will be showcases on open source artificial intelligence architectures as well as secure microprocessors.

Presentations

W04.1.1 Open Source HW for IoT and its impact on the Industrial Ecosystem: the PULP Experience

Start
End
Speaker
Davide Rossi, Univ. di Bologna, Italy

W04.1.2 RISC-V & accelerators: enabling variable precision FP computing

Start
End
Presenter
Yves Durand, CEA, France

W04.1.3 lowRISC’s Collaborative Framework for Open Source Silicon Design

Start
End
Presenter
Gavin Ferris, lowRISC, United Kingdom

W04.1.4 Panel with speakers on Open Source HW technologies.

Start
End
Moderator
Davide Schiavone, OpenHW Group, Italy
Panellist
Yves Durand, CEA, France
Panellist
Davide Rossi, Univ. di Bologna, Italy
Panellist
Gavin Ferris, lowRISC, United Kingdom

Q&A session with the audience and panel discussion on Open Source HW technologies.

W04.2 Open Source Software & Support Technologies for Open Source Hardware

Session Start
Session End
Session chair
Jérôme Quévremont, Thales, France

Besides IP blocks addressed in the previous session, open source hardware requires several software technologies that benefit from open source collaboration. First of all software development tools, such as compilers, debugger, bootloaders, operating system, runtime frameworks, etc. Then design tools like FPGA compilers, CAD tools, simulators, emulators, validation tools, etc. Finally yet importantly, security benefits from open source at every level of the hardware and software stack. This session will report on several contributions these support technologies, and discuss the main upcoming issues of this field.

Presentations

W04.2.1 Supporting open source hardware to enable commercial adoption

Start
End
Presenter
Michael Gielda, Antmicro, Poland

W04.2.2 Adding support for RISC-V “V” vector extension in LLVM.

Start
End
Presenter
Roger Ferrer Ibanez, BSC, Spain

W04.2.3 Improving security through open source hardware

Start
End
Presenter
Stefan Mangard, TU Graz, Austria

W04.2.4 Simulation of RISC-V 128-bit extension in QEMU

Start
End
Presenter
Frédéric Pétrot, Grenoble INP/TIMA, France

W04.2.5 Panel with the speakers on Open Software & Support Technologies for Open Source Hardware

Start
End
Moderator
Jérôme Quévremont, Thales, France
Panellist
Michael Gielda, Antmicro, Poland
Panellist
Roger Ferrer Ibanez, BSC, Spain
Panellist
Stefan Mangard, TU Graz, Austria
Panellist
Frédéric Pétrot, Grenoble INP/TIMA, France

Q&A session with the audience and panel discussion on Open Software & Support Technologies for Open Source Hardware.

W04.3 Keynote - RISC-V Open Era of Computing: Innovation, adoption, and opportunity in Europe and beyond

Session Start
Session End
Keynote Speaker
Calista Redmond, RISC-V International, United States

RISC-V is the undisputed lead architecture that has ushered in a profound new open era in compute. The innovations and implementations of RISC-V span from embedded to enterprise, from IoT to HPC. RISC-V is delivering on extensions, tools, and investments of a global community ranging from start-ups to multi-nationals, from students to research fellows. This talk will highlight that progress and opportunity, with an invitation to engage

W04.4 Panel on Licensing, Funding, Cooperation & Regulation

Session Start
Session End
Session chair
Andrew Katz, OpenForum Europe, United Kingdom

There are several non-technical challenges for Open Source Hardware that should be addressed on the regulatory and policy level. There is a need for researching funding mechanisms that could increase Europe's influence and the level of participation of and cooperation between SMEs, academia and large companies, as well as a clarification of the regulatory and licensing issues that might stifle innovation. Are there policy solutions that can support such developments and Open Source Hardware initiatives? Who can be a driver of change? In this panel the panellists will discuss these pertinent issues and share their experiences.

Presentations

W04.4.1 Introduction of the panel's topics and panelists

Start
End
Presenter
Andrew Katz, OpenForum Europe, United Kingdom

W04.4.2 After eating software, Open is “eating” everything!

Start
End
Panellist
Mike Milinkovich, Eclipse Foundation, Belgium

W04.4.3 EUROPRACTICE as Breeding Ground for European Open Source Hardware Initiatives

Start
End
Presenter
Romano Hoofman, Europractice, Belgium

W04.4.4 Funding open source hardware: getting the best from publicly funded research through commercial partnerships

Start
End
Presenter
Javier Serrano, CERN, Switzerland

W04.4.5 Reinforcing large-scale design capacities: a partial view from a funding agency

Start
End
Presenter
Arian Zwegers, European Commission, Belgium

W04.4.6 Building European RISC-V Leadership in Global Open Source Hardware

Start
End
Presenter
Calista Redmond, RISC-V International, United States

W04.4.7 What are legal challenges for widespread use of open source HW? What are the licensing issues?

Start
End
Presenter
Andrew Katz, OpenForum Europe, United Kingdom

W04.4.8 Panel discussion on Licensing, Funding, Cooperation & Regulation.

Start
End
Moderator
Andrew Katz, OpenForum Europe, United Kingdom
Panellist
Romano Hoofman, Europractice, Belgium
Panellist
Javier Serrano, CERN, Switzerland
Panellist
Arian Zwegers, European Commission, Belgium
Panellist
Calista Redmond, RISC-V International, United States
Panellist
Mike Milinkovich, Eclipse Foundation, Belgium

Q&A session with the audience and panel discussion on on Licensing, Funding, Cooperation & Regulation

W04.5 Panel on Industrial Concerns

Session Start
Session End
Session chair
Frank Gürkaynak , ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Open source hardwarre, especially around the RISC-V architecture has been a talking point in the recent years. There has been a rapid development and from humble beginnings where open source hardware was a niche between enthusiasts and academics, today we have multi-billion dollar companies and recently a commitment from the European Commission to support work in open source hardware. In this session, we would like to go beyond the buzz and discuss with people involved in industry what opportunities they see, what the potential roadblocks are and what they think is still missing.

Presentations

W04.5.1 Introduction of the panel's topics and panelists

Start
End
Presenter
Frank Gürkaynak , ETH Zürich, Switzerland

W04.5.2 OpenHW CORE-V: RISC-V open-source cores for high volume production SoCs

Start
End
Presenter
Rick O'Connor, OpenHW Group, Canada

W04.5.3 Leveraging open source hardware in commercial products: benefits and challenges

Start
End
Presenter
LoÏc Lietar, GreenWaves, France

W04.5.4 Can open source HW address industrial concerns for cybersecurity and trusted electronics?

Start
End
Presenter
Matthias Hiller, Fraunhofer, ECSO, Germany

W04.5.5 Industrial requirements for open source hardware

Start
End
Presenter
Jean-Christian Kircher, Bosch, France

W04.5.6 THALES' perspectives on open source hardware

Start
End
Presenter
Thierry Collette, Thales, France

W04.5.7 Industrial Concerns about Open Hardware

Start
End
Presenter
Zdeněk Přikryl, Codasip, Czechia

W04.5.8 Panel discussion on Industrial Concerns

Start
End
Moderator
Frank Gürkaynak , ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Panellist
Rick O'Connor, OpenHW Group, Canada
Panellist
LoÏc Lietar, GreenWaves, France
Panellist
Matthias Hiller, Fraunhofer, ECSO, Germany
Panellist
Jean-Christian Kircher, Bosch, France
Panellist
Thierry Collette, Thales, France
Panellist
Zdeněk Přikryl, Codasip, Czechia

Q&A session with the audience and panel discussion on industrial concerns of open source hardware.