[Oberon] New ETH low power Open Source Processor

Jörg Straube joerg.straube at iaeth.ch
Thu Mar 31 18:23:03 CEST 2016


The link to PULP is a link to the department of Electrical Engineering.
Oberon was invented at the department of Computer Science.
Seems those two departments do not talk to each other very often :-)

Jörg

> Am 31.03.2016 um 17:15 schrieb <skulski at pas.rochester.edu> <skulski at pas.rochester.edu>:
> 
> greim <greim at schleibinger.com> wrote:
> Maybe its not new, bit quite interesting....
> 
> iis-projects.ee.ethz.ch/index.php/PULP
> www.pulp-platform.org
> 
> These web pages mention "32-bit RISC-V core that was developed at ETH
> Zurich" and then refer to the RISC-V web site riscv.org, where one can
> read "RISC-V was originally developed in the Computer Science Division of
> the EECS Department at the University of California, Berkeley". Also
> Wikipedia attributes RISC-V to Krste Asanovic and David Patterson at UC
> Berkeley. The connection with ETH Zurich is somehow unclear. And there is
> also Universita’ di Bologna in the mix, mentioned on
> www.pulp-platform.org.
> 
> RISC-V sounds quite close to RISC5, but the two are not the same. So here
> is another level of confusion.
> 
> Perhaps ETH Zurich could sort these out and perhaps could somehow bring
> Oberon on board of RISC-V, PULP, and Pulpino, which are all somehow
> associated with ETH. ETH could perhaps clear the confusion and perhaps
> help the future users by adopting the ETH computer language to program ETH
> processor cores.
> 
> At this point it seems pretty confusing to me.
> 
> W.
> 
> 
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