Forging the Future of Open Source Lab that provide us Power Architecture VM

As we have published many times in our posts we use 2 Power9 VM for free thanks to the Open Source Lab at Oregon Stage University.

At 30th April 2025 the OSL published

critical and time-sensitive situation facing the Open Source Lab (OSL). Over the past several years, we have been operating at a deficit due to a decline in corporate donations. While the Oregon State College of Engineering (CoE) has generously filled this gap, recent changes in university funding makes our current funding model no longer sustainable. As a result, our current funding model is no longer sustainable.

On 9th May 2025 published

Following our OSL Future post, the community response has been incredible! Thanks to your amazing support, our team is funded for the next year. This is a huge relief and lets us focus on building a truly self-sustaining OSL.

Now they need support to build a truly self-sustaining OSL, they serve and help many of Open Source projects like our, so we publish their call.

https://osuosl.org/blog/osl-future-update

24 October Join us at NXP Technology Days Milano

Next Tuesday 24 October our association meet you at NXP Technology Days Milano , we show our Powerboard Tyche prototype along with our Eclipse Notebook chassis.

Participation is free, registration needed, if you like you can do it below.

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Video: SFScon 2020: 202x Open Hardware Concrete Approach

PPC64 Open ISA and A2I Core along with the PPC64 Open Hardware Notebook PCB and Libre-Soc project.

This year IBM released the A2I POWER processor core design and associated FPGA environment. In 2019 IBM opened the POWER Instruction Set Architecture (ISA). The Power Progress Community released the PCB of the Notebook Motherboard based on Power Architecture with Cern Open Hardware License. Libre-SOC is a software-hardware project that aims to deliver a physical POWER compliant SOC that comes complete with a CPU, GPU, VPU, and DDR controller. We will discover these concrete projects