Hi, I have submitted the lecture below to the CCC camp. If you want to participate in the talk (it is possible to have several speakers) or change something let me know.
Call for proposals is here: http://events.ccc.de/camp/2011/cfp.html S. Title: Latest developments around the Milkymist System-on-Chip Subtitle: A roundup of one the most advanced open hardware projects Abstract: Milkymist develops a comprehensive solution for the live synthesis of interactive visual effects. It features one of the first open source system-on-chip designs. This talk gives a roundup of what has happened during the last 1.5 year in this project. Full description: The Milkymist project is an informal organization of people and companies who develop, manufacture and sell a comprehensive open source hardware and software solution for the live synthesis of interactive visual effects for VJs. The project goes great lengths to apply the open source principles at every level possible, and is best known for the Milkymist system-on-chip (SoC) which is among the first commercialized system-on-chip designs with free HDL source code. As a result, several Milkymist technologies have been reused in applications unrelated to video synthesis. For example, NASA's Communication Navigation and Networking Reconfigurable Testbed (CoNNeCT) experiment uses the memory controller that was originally developed for the Milkymist system-on-chip and published under the GNU GPL. A lot has happened since the introduction to the project at the 26C3. We have designed and are now producing and selling our own hardware called Milkymist One. The system-on-chip design has reached a very usable state, with improved graphics acceleration capabilities, support for all the interfaces on the Milkymist One (e.g. video digitizer, USB, Ethernet, MIDI, DMX, ...) and a GDB-compatible in-system debugger. On the software side, we have ported the RTEMS real time operating system and up-leveled the Linux port. We also have developed our own end-user video synthesis application which runs on RTEMS and uses the MTK embedded GUI toolkit (based on Genode FX). Several third-party applications and many libraries were successfully run on the Milkymist SoC, such as the MuPDF document viewer and the Lua and Ruby programming languagues. The SoC software can also be run and debugged in the latest versions of the QEMU emulator. This talk presents all this, and more. Demonstrations included. _______________________________________________ http://lists.milkymist.org/listinfo.cgi/devel-milkymist.org IRC: #milkymist@Freenode Twitter: www.twitter.com/milkymistvj Ideas? http://milkymist.uservoice.com
