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SFSCON23 - Roberto Innocenti - From the design to reality is here the Community Open Hardware PowerPC Notebook

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South Tyrol Free Software Conference
South Tyrol Free Software Conference

The Open Hardware PowerPC Notebook designed around GNU/Linux will be showed at NOI Techpark. We had presented here its motherboard design in 2018. We will updates regarding last developments for u-boot AMD video drivers, re-design of heat pipes, and CE test certification process. We will give future availability milestones of this notebook and details regarding the GNU/Linux distributions or other OS that could runs on it.

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From the design to reality is here the Community Open Hardware PowerPC Notebook In 2014 hobbists dream it, now thanks to donors, volunteers and collaborations becomes reality Roberto Innocenti - Power Progress Community
SFSCON23 - Roberto Innocenti - From the design to reality is here the Community Open Hardware PowerPC Notebook
Free Software Firm ware free software permits to create hardware with different CPU Architectures Free Software OS Free Software applications Power X86 ARM vRisc Thanks Free Software!
Thanks to Free Software Public events we had the opportunity to share our dream and join other dreamer that want to realize a Open Hardware PowerPC Notebook Sfscon from 2018 to 2023 Editions Linux Days from 2014 to 2023 Editions ( MI,BG,BZ) Libre Planet 2022 Fosdem 2021 OpenPower Summit 2020 - 2021 BCS 2021 Open Source Summit 2017/2018/2020 GNU/Linux Valencia meeting 2019
First Project presentation at Linux Day Milan October 2014
SFSCON 2018 Bolzano first PPC Notebook Presentation
Thanks to Slimbook we have the notebook chassis Gaming Oriented Allows us to use MXM graphics The body of the laptop is actually the entire case, the cooling system, the screen, the keyboard, the backlight, the webcam, the speakers and the battery. notebook body from scratch for a small production batch was not financially feasible. Slimbook provides us the notebook body
We thanks NXP We thanks NXP to have give us from 2016 to have give us from 2016 a T2080 rdb Development kit a T2080 rdb Development kit that permit to test us Debian PPC64 BE and Video Card that permit to test us Debian PPC64 BE and Video Card
Thanks PowerPC GNU/Linux distro MintPPC https://fienixppc.blogspot.com http://mintppc.nl https://www.adelielinux.org/ https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/PPC Ppc64 port
Project Timeline powerpc-notebook.org first published hardware requirements for OSWH PowerPC Notebook Becomes Open Source Hardware Established PowerProgressCommunity association 2014 Campaign and Electrical Schematics,Revivo with Scratch 2015 2016 2017 2017-2018 Campaign and Printed Circuit Board design 2019-2020 Campaign and Fast SI bus simulations 2020 Campaign and three Prototypes 2021 2022 Campaign for Hardware Test and Prototypes production 2022 Campaign for CE Certification + MXM video cards + Extra Prototypes extra costs, u-boot video driver, fix prototype 2023
● Registered our association needed to ask donations ● Made an signed with Acube the contract to design the Mobo ● Setup the bank account ● Searching a viable solution for the notebook chassis ● The T2080 RDB devkit runs with Video Card 2016: founded the association 2017: Start Donation Campaign ● Setup our platform to collect donations ● Donations started to arrive ● Defined List of hardware requirements ● Debian PPC64 run on our T2080 RDB Devkit ● Start improve PPC64 BE packages
● Promotion and dissemination of free software (applications, databases, operating systems, bootloaders, firmware) ● Promotion and dissemination of free hardware ● (especially, but not exclusively, with PowerPC and OpenPower architectures) Power Progress Community
Universities and Schools ● Active collaboration with Universities and Schools ● to give students the opportunity to – design open hardware computers and electronic devices – Develop applications with free software licences – so that they can gain high-tech, intellectual and educational experience of a high technological, intellectual and collaborative level.
Solidarity-based knowledge and freedom of choice ● Knowledge in solidarity and in the service of liberation from conditions of constraint and oppression and for freedom of choice. ● Creating social conditions of equal opportunities. ● Dissemination of the conscious use and utilisation of freedom- respecting technologies that do not become an information mine for "surveillance capitalism". ● Dissemination in all sections of the population and especially those far removed from the world of information technology.
Design Open Hardware,accessible to the widest range of people. Facilitate the re-use of dismissed or low-cost hardware by means of free software. Encourage people to use free software. Open Science: practice of science in such a way that others can collaborate and contribute, where research data, lab notes and other research processes are freely available, reuse, redistribute,reproducible data and methods Power Progress Community Missions
● The association is run by hobbyists that work for fun on the project on their spare time, no one is getting paid, only the funded electronic engineers ● We have a very flexible business plan, no tight time-to-market strategy ● We can afford to run a donations campaign for an unlimited amount of time, and that is not allowed by any crowdfunding platform. Our DNA
Open Hardware passion Free Software passion RISC passion PowerPC passion Big endian passion Endianess passion obstinacy creating hardware obstinacy Create what we need obstinacy software patches Rebellion from what we don't like Rebellion from Closed source Faith to succeed To achieve
Power Progress Community founders and the core team
28 October 2023 Linux Day Milano Association members at our expositon space: Roberto, Antonio, Enrico, Riccardo and Stefano Our Speech in the same day
● Agreement with Slimbook regarding the notebook body ● Electrical Schematics design completed ● Collected the donations to design of Printed Circuit Board ● The Printed Circuit Board design is completed 2019 - 2020: PCB design
2021 with Global Component Shortage June 2021 AMD MXM order opening, Delivery November 2021 July 2021 40 out of 2000 components missing August 2021 Some energy management components cannot be found Motherboard redesign September 2021 Increase in component prices October 2021 HDMI connector and some components not available Increase campaign donation target December 2021 End of life AMD MXM, Some components still missing Search for other manufacturers Search for alternatives
July 2022 New electrical schematic published August 2022 Purchased 2 AMD MXM TUL cards September 2022 4 missing components found at stellar prices Cost 3600 more , bought October 2021 HDMI connector and some components not available Slimbook provides us with HDMI connectors End of life AMD MXM, Alternative manufacturer search August 2022 new pcb design published 2022 with Global Component Shortage
The 2023 Chip Programming, FPGA CPLD towards u-boot January 2023 Electrical testing of prototypes May 2023 July 2023 Jtag Debugger → shipped to Max Tretene with one prototype October 2023 Programming SRAM, NAND, NOR for boot, fix CPLD, fix Flash programming, how to set RCW programmed CPLD - Lattice LCMXO640C-3TN100C FPGA to manage all those external peripherals connected March 2023 Programming Voltage Switching Regulators (TPS544B20RVFT)
24 October 2023 at NXP Days Milano Sandro ( Mas Elettronica ) Roberto ( PPC) Enrico ( Acube Systems)
2013 350+ Launched Global Members What is OpenPOWER Foundation is a non-profit serving its member companies and the open hardware industry Mission: To accelerate adoption of OpenPOWER ISA and open technology at large. - To drive technology innovation through specifications, compliance tests, and product SIGs - To grow overall ecosystem and members - To facilitate community engagement and visibility Fully open sourced POWER ISA in 2019
What is OpenPOWER? OpenPOWER is a high performance RISC-based free and open Instruction Set Architecture… ● With 30 year proven computing history ● Completely driven by open collaboration through the foundation ● Enabling freedom of design across all domains and industries ● Including reference design, tools, and resources to de- risk development
POWER OpenISA are real option with FPGA, ASIC
Open Power ISA test FOSS on FPGA softcore ● No need wait “real production hardware” ● Test FOSS software compiled for Power on FPGA Open Power ISA Software/ IP Cores FPGA
To provide a high-performance power processor family for vector instruction computing https://redsemiconductor.com/ Solid Silicon Corporation is a fabless silicon company developing standardized, sovereign, future-proof silicon, which gives developers the ability to own, control, and trust their computing devices down to the silicon. https://www.solidsilicon.com A small Open POWER ISA softcore written in VHDL 2008. Aiming to be simple and easy to understand, it was selected for inclusion in the Efabless Open MPW Shuttle programme. https://github.com/antonblanchard/microwatt PowerISA 3.0 entirely free core, is being manufactured by TSMC 180 nm via Imec's MPW Shuttle Service in collaboration with Chips4Makers and LIP6 at the University of Sorbonne https://libre-soc.org/
Open Hardware PowerPC Notebook based on Powerboard Tyche Tyche who governed the fortune and prosperity of a city in classical Greek mythology
2021 PCB Dummy 2 layer Powerboard Tyche designed for Slimbook Eclipse body
2023 Powerboard Tyche Prototype
Our Open Source Hardware Path Objective: Certification of Oshwa https://certification.oshwa.org/ Steps taken: ● Advice from the NYU Technology Law and Policy Clinic to make the project as open hardware as possible. ● Contact with Chip manufacturers for authorization to distribute the project as Open Hardware ● Publication of the electrical schematic ( Orcad source) with Cern 1.2 License ● Publication of PCB source ( Mentor Expedition) and export in Altium and Kicad
2022: Video card MXM AMD Embedded Radeon E9174 TUL As of 2022, only the E9174 remained available, which has 4GB of ram and is manufactured by TUL. Bought 2 pieces for prototypes.
One of the prototypes is here! 1)The prototypes (3) were produced in December 2022 , ( they cost about 1200 Euros more each for the 4 throttling components) 2)Hardware Tests and programming and fixes are in progress 3)In the meantime, the donation campaign is still open to raise funds for the new prototypes new release, for the development costs for u-boot, and for the design of the cooling pipes
Be in your organization, institution, company, city one of first protagonist, beta testers using OSHW PowerPC Notebook
1 Electrical Schematics 2 July 2017 - 7 June 2018 € 12.600 2 PCB Printed Circuit Board 12 October 2019 - 8 September 2020 € 19.000 3 Fast SI bus simulations 9 September 2020 -12 December 2020 € 5.000 4 3 protptypes 12 December 2020 - 22 October 2021 € 13.500 5 Hardware Tests 23 October 2021 – 28 January 2022 € 14.000 6 CE Certifications 29 January 2022- August 2022 € 12.500 7 MXM video card + Prototypes extra cost August 2022 – November 2023 € 5375 8 Driver u-boot,fix protipi,progettazione pipe July 2023 € 16000 Donation Campaigns
● Readon driver development for u-boot latest version ● Update cpld (FPGA managing peripherals) ● Debug and fix board to start u-boot ● Device tree for u-boot ● Design and production of new heat sink tubes Current Donations Campaign
Powerboard Tyche Update design ● possible removal of the Marvell Sata3 controller ( cost and space reason) ● Remove the sim slot ● Change on the position of few connectors ● Change of few holes for chassis screw ● Remove one not needed Flash Memory ● Other mechanical changes needed to fix perfectly on Smarbook Eclipse Chassis
● be protagonists ● Realized what was not there ● discovered interesting people ● collaborated with other interesting people ● accept Complexity ● more agile to overcome difficulties ● Our action count ● Open hopes ● Harmony with others ● Good use of energies
The open space of POSSIBILITIES ● Open ISA , open instruction set ● The OpenPower Foundation ecosystem ● Power Architecture Softcore ● Collaboration with Slimbook ● Support from many - also very generous - donors ● Relations with other free software project groups ● Opportunities to make our project known at events
Our Resources Association https://powerprogress.org/ Association Forum https://forum.powerprogress.org PPC Notebook updates https://powerpc-notebook.org/ Wiki PPC Notebook https://wiki.powerpc-notebook.org Forum PPC Notebook https://forum.powerpc-notebook.org Survey to collaborate http://survey.powerpc-notebook.org/ Our Repositories https://gitlab.com/power-progress-community/
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SFSCON23 - Roberto Innocenti - From the design to reality is here the Community Open Hardware PowerPC Notebook

  • 1. From the design to reality is here the Community Open Hardware PowerPC Notebook In 2014 hobbists dream it, now thanks to donors, volunteers and collaborations becomes reality Roberto Innocenti - Power Progress Community
  • 3. Free Software Firm ware free software permits to create hardware with different CPU Architectures Free Software OS Free Software applications Power X86 ARM vRisc Thanks Free Software!
  • 4. Thanks to Free Software Public events we had the opportunity to share our dream and join other dreamer that want to realize a Open Hardware PowerPC Notebook Sfscon from 2018 to 2023 Editions Linux Days from 2014 to 2023 Editions ( MI,BG,BZ) Libre Planet 2022 Fosdem 2021 OpenPower Summit 2020 - 2021 BCS 2021 Open Source Summit 2017/2018/2020 GNU/Linux Valencia meeting 2019
  • 5. First Project presentation at Linux Day Milan October 2014
  • 6. SFSCON 2018 Bolzano first PPC Notebook Presentation
  • 7. Thanks to Slimbook we have the notebook chassis Gaming Oriented Allows us to use MXM graphics The body of the laptop is actually the entire case, the cooling system, the screen, the keyboard, the backlight, the webcam, the speakers and the battery. notebook body from scratch for a small production batch was not financially feasible. Slimbook provides us the notebook body
  • 8. We thanks NXP We thanks NXP to have give us from 2016 to have give us from 2016 a T2080 rdb Development kit a T2080 rdb Development kit that permit to test us Debian PPC64 BE and Video Card that permit to test us Debian PPC64 BE and Video Card
  • 9. Thanks PowerPC GNU/Linux distro MintPPC https://fienixppc.blogspot.com http://mintppc.nl https://www.adelielinux.org/ https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/PPC Ppc64 port
  • 10. Project Timeline powerpc-notebook.org first published hardware requirements for OSWH PowerPC Notebook Becomes Open Source Hardware Established PowerProgressCommunity association 2014 Campaign and Electrical Schematics,Revivo with Scratch 2015 2016 2017 2017-2018 Campaign and Printed Circuit Board design 2019-2020 Campaign and Fast SI bus simulations 2020 Campaign and three Prototypes 2021 2022 Campaign for Hardware Test and Prototypes production 2022 Campaign for CE Certification + MXM video cards + Extra Prototypes extra costs, u-boot video driver, fix prototype 2023
  • 11. ● Registered our association needed to ask donations ● Made an signed with Acube the contract to design the Mobo ● Setup the bank account ● Searching a viable solution for the notebook chassis ● The T2080 RDB devkit runs with Video Card 2016: founded the association 2017: Start Donation Campaign ● Setup our platform to collect donations ● Donations started to arrive ● Defined List of hardware requirements ● Debian PPC64 run on our T2080 RDB Devkit ● Start improve PPC64 BE packages
  • 12. ● Promotion and dissemination of free software (applications, databases, operating systems, bootloaders, firmware) ● Promotion and dissemination of free hardware ● (especially, but not exclusively, with PowerPC and OpenPower architectures) Power Progress Community
  • 13. Universities and Schools ● Active collaboration with Universities and Schools ● to give students the opportunity to – design open hardware computers and electronic devices – Develop applications with free software licences – so that they can gain high-tech, intellectual and educational experience of a high technological, intellectual and collaborative level.
  • 14. Solidarity-based knowledge and freedom of choice ● Knowledge in solidarity and in the service of liberation from conditions of constraint and oppression and for freedom of choice. ● Creating social conditions of equal opportunities. ● Dissemination of the conscious use and utilisation of freedom- respecting technologies that do not become an information mine for "surveillance capitalism". ● Dissemination in all sections of the population and especially those far removed from the world of information technology.
  • 15. Design Open Hardware,accessible to the widest range of people. Facilitate the re-use of dismissed or low-cost hardware by means of free software. Encourage people to use free software. Open Science: practice of science in such a way that others can collaborate and contribute, where research data, lab notes and other research processes are freely available, reuse, redistribute,reproducible data and methods Power Progress Community Missions
  • 16. ● The association is run by hobbyists that work for fun on the project on their spare time, no one is getting paid, only the funded electronic engineers ● We have a very flexible business plan, no tight time-to-market strategy ● We can afford to run a donations campaign for an unlimited amount of time, and that is not allowed by any crowdfunding platform. Our DNA
  • 17. Open Hardware passion Free Software passion RISC passion PowerPC passion Big endian passion Endianess passion obstinacy creating hardware obstinacy Create what we need obstinacy software patches Rebellion from what we don't like Rebellion from Closed source Faith to succeed To achieve
  • 19. 28 October 2023 Linux Day Milano Association members at our expositon space: Roberto, Antonio, Enrico, Riccardo and Stefano Our Speech in the same day
  • 20. ● Agreement with Slimbook regarding the notebook body ● Electrical Schematics design completed ● Collected the donations to design of Printed Circuit Board ● The Printed Circuit Board design is completed 2019 - 2020: PCB design
  • 21. 2021 with Global Component Shortage June 2021 AMD MXM order opening, Delivery November 2021 July 2021 40 out of 2000 components missing August 2021 Some energy management components cannot be found Motherboard redesign September 2021 Increase in component prices October 2021 HDMI connector and some components not available Increase campaign donation target December 2021 End of life AMD MXM, Some components still missing Search for other manufacturers Search for alternatives
  • 22. July 2022 New electrical schematic published August 2022 Purchased 2 AMD MXM TUL cards September 2022 4 missing components found at stellar prices Cost 3600 more , bought October 2021 HDMI connector and some components not available Slimbook provides us with HDMI connectors End of life AMD MXM, Alternative manufacturer search August 2022 new pcb design published 2022 with Global Component Shortage
  • 23. The 2023 Chip Programming, FPGA CPLD towards u-boot January 2023 Electrical testing of prototypes May 2023 July 2023 Jtag Debugger → shipped to Max Tretene with one prototype October 2023 Programming SRAM, NAND, NOR for boot, fix CPLD, fix Flash programming, how to set RCW programmed CPLD - Lattice LCMXO640C-3TN100C FPGA to manage all those external peripherals connected March 2023 Programming Voltage Switching Regulators (TPS544B20RVFT)
  • 24. 24 October 2023 at NXP Days Milano Sandro ( Mas Elettronica ) Roberto ( PPC) Enrico ( Acube Systems)
  • 25. 2013 350+ Launched Global Members What is OpenPOWER Foundation is a non-profit serving its member companies and the open hardware industry Mission: To accelerate adoption of OpenPOWER ISA and open technology at large. - To drive technology innovation through specifications, compliance tests, and product SIGs - To grow overall ecosystem and members - To facilitate community engagement and visibility Fully open sourced POWER ISA in 2019
  • 26. What is OpenPOWER? OpenPOWER is a high performance RISC-based free and open Instruction Set Architecture… ● With 30 year proven computing history ● Completely driven by open collaboration through the foundation ● Enabling freedom of design across all domains and industries ● Including reference design, tools, and resources to de- risk development
  • 27. POWER OpenISA are real option with FPGA, ASIC
  • 28. Open Power ISA test FOSS on FPGA softcore ● No need wait “real production hardware” ● Test FOSS software compiled for Power on FPGA Open Power ISA Software/ IP Cores FPGA
  • 29. To provide a high-performance power processor family for vector instruction computing https://redsemiconductor.com/ Solid Silicon Corporation is a fabless silicon company developing standardized, sovereign, future-proof silicon, which gives developers the ability to own, control, and trust their computing devices down to the silicon. https://www.solidsilicon.com A small Open POWER ISA softcore written in VHDL 2008. Aiming to be simple and easy to understand, it was selected for inclusion in the Efabless Open MPW Shuttle programme. https://github.com/antonblanchard/microwatt PowerISA 3.0 entirely free core, is being manufactured by TSMC 180 nm via Imec's MPW Shuttle Service in collaboration with Chips4Makers and LIP6 at the University of Sorbonne https://libre-soc.org/
  • 30. Open Hardware PowerPC Notebook based on Powerboard Tyche Tyche who governed the fortune and prosperity of a city in classical Greek mythology
  • 31. 2021 PCB Dummy 2 layer Powerboard Tyche designed for Slimbook Eclipse body
  • 33. Our Open Source Hardware Path Objective: Certification of Oshwa https://certification.oshwa.org/ Steps taken: ● Advice from the NYU Technology Law and Policy Clinic to make the project as open hardware as possible. ● Contact with Chip manufacturers for authorization to distribute the project as Open Hardware ● Publication of the electrical schematic ( Orcad source) with Cern 1.2 License ● Publication of PCB source ( Mentor Expedition) and export in Altium and Kicad
  • 34. 2022: Video card MXM AMD Embedded Radeon E9174 TUL As of 2022, only the E9174 remained available, which has 4GB of ram and is manufactured by TUL. Bought 2 pieces for prototypes.
  • 35. One of the prototypes is here! 1)The prototypes (3) were produced in December 2022 , ( they cost about 1200 Euros more each for the 4 throttling components) 2)Hardware Tests and programming and fixes are in progress 3)In the meantime, the donation campaign is still open to raise funds for the new prototypes new release, for the development costs for u-boot, and for the design of the cooling pipes
  • 36. Be in your organization, institution, company, city one of first protagonist, beta testers using OSHW PowerPC Notebook
  • 37. 1 Electrical Schematics 2 July 2017 - 7 June 2018 € 12.600 2 PCB Printed Circuit Board 12 October 2019 - 8 September 2020 € 19.000 3 Fast SI bus simulations 9 September 2020 -12 December 2020 € 5.000 4 3 protptypes 12 December 2020 - 22 October 2021 € 13.500 5 Hardware Tests 23 October 2021 – 28 January 2022 € 14.000 6 CE Certifications 29 January 2022- August 2022 € 12.500 7 MXM video card + Prototypes extra cost August 2022 – November 2023 € 5375 8 Driver u-boot,fix protipi,progettazione pipe July 2023 € 16000 Donation Campaigns
  • 38. ● Readon driver development for u-boot latest version ● Update cpld (FPGA managing peripherals) ● Debug and fix board to start u-boot ● Device tree for u-boot ● Design and production of new heat sink tubes Current Donations Campaign
  • 39. Powerboard Tyche Update design ● possible removal of the Marvell Sata3 controller ( cost and space reason) ● Remove the sim slot ● Change on the position of few connectors ● Change of few holes for chassis screw ● Remove one not needed Flash Memory ● Other mechanical changes needed to fix perfectly on Smarbook Eclipse Chassis
  • 40. ● be protagonists ● Realized what was not there ● discovered interesting people ● collaborated with other interesting people ● accept Complexity ● more agile to overcome difficulties ● Our action count ● Open hopes ● Harmony with others ● Good use of energies
  • 41. The open space of POSSIBILITIES ● Open ISA , open instruction set ● The OpenPower Foundation ecosystem ● Power Architecture Softcore ● Collaboration with Slimbook ● Support from many - also very generous - donors ● Relations with other free software project groups ● Opportunities to make our project known at events
  • 42. Our Resources Association https://powerprogress.org/ Association Forum https://forum.powerprogress.org PPC Notebook updates https://powerpc-notebook.org/ Wiki PPC Notebook https://wiki.powerpc-notebook.org Forum PPC Notebook https://forum.powerpc-notebook.org Survey to collaborate http://survey.powerpc-notebook.org/ Our Repositories https://gitlab.com/power-progress-community/