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Sun Open-Sourcing UltraSPARC Design

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the why-shouldn't-it-work-for-hardware-too dept.

AKAImBatman writes "While everyone was busy with the holiday season, Sun Microsystems quietly announced the start of the OpenSPARC project. Unlike previous CPUs that were based on the "Open" SPARC specifications (such as LEON), Sun is releasing the complete Verilog source code to their latest and greatest microprocessor. Their current time frame for releasing the source code to the public is in March of 2006. Given their success with the OpenSolaris project, it seems that this is likely to be more than just vaporware. So get out your Virtex FPGAs and your Verilog compilers, and let's get ready to hack some hardware!"

2 of 250 comments (clear)

  1. dont tell anyone by master_meio · · Score: -1, Troll

    but bill cosby is an "en eye jee jee ee arr."

  2. MOD PARENT DOWN by greginnj · · Score: -1, Troll

    Parent is both offtopic and racist. Metamods, who would mod parent 'funny' ??

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