Lowrisc is making an open source cpu. They want to manufacture and sell a
mainboard comparable to a raspberry pi. Running gnulinux. They do not have
the means to make it all by themselves. They ask people to contribute. I
wrote the computer science department of two universities. One has said, they
will look into if they can contribute.
You should contact universities you think could be interested in
participating in the development.
I think it is better if you phone the computer science department first and
ask if you may send an informative email.
A template could have this form.
University
Computer science department.
Lowrisc http://www.lowrisc.org/ is a Cambridge University based riscv
http://riscv.org/ cpu project. The cpu is open source and everybody has
access to the built in cpu software. One lowrisc founder is Alex Bradbury
http://www.csap.cam.ac.uk/network/alex-bradbury/. In this youtube video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeS8cBAHopc&feature=youtu.be you may watch
his latest presentation on lowrisc. Alex Bradbury was part of making the
Raspberry Pi computer.
Lowrisc's means are limited. Being an open source project they ask people to
contribute to lowrisc. If your computer science department has the asked
skills, would the university consider contributing software to lowrisc?
If you know of european universities that could be interested in lowrisc,
will you inform them?
With friendly greetings
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