ORConf 2024
The ORConf conference is a weekend of presentations and networking dedicated to free and open source silicon. It's an event for the open source silicon community, and is run by the FOSSi Foundation and its volunteers.
The FOSSi Foundation exists to promote and protect the open source silicon chip movement. It actively encourages the community's growth and is helping to maintain the open spirit of the movement, through events, educational programmes and working groups.
With an international membership of experts from academia and industry, it supports new open source initiatives and collaborations – offering free advice to governments and policy makers, corporations, academics and hobbyists. As a not-for profit organisation, the foundation is independent of any commercial interests and acts as a steward in support of open source projects which broadly benefit the open source silicon community. FOSSi is an acronym for Free and Open Source Silicon.
Learn more about FOSSi Foundation and ORConf here
Founder and main organizer of the event
Qamcom's Olof Kindgren is both the founder and main organizer of the event and will do one of its many talks. View the full list of talks here
Olof became actively involved with free and open source silicon through the OpenRISC project in 2011. He has since then worked in many areas with a special interest in tools and collaborations. Also known as the maintainer of the FuseSoc IP core package manager – a tool for collaborations.
Want to talk about the FOSSi Foundation, open source silicon or Qamcom? Contact Olof at olof.kindgren@qamcom.se.
The future of FuseSoC
Olof Kindgren's talk at the event
While Linux and GCC helped open source software succeed, package management enabled the rapid development of Linux-based solutions. Tools like Pip for Python and Cargo for Rust similarly streamline software installation and dependencies. In chip design, FuseSoC has been a widely used package manager since 2011, supporting both open source and proprietary projects. This presentation will focus on upcoming features for FuseSoC and its sister project, Edalize.
Read the full description of the talk here