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# Workgroup Housekeeping
Update on workgroup charter process
Call for participation went out until
Chair and maintainer process
Taking nominations / volunteers for positions
Chair
Paul Lecocq, IBM
Tim Pearson, Raptor
POWER Core technical lead
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Uncore Technical Lead
Tim Pearson, Raptor
Software Technical Lead
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Github Maintainers
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Reminder of tentative Workgroup organization
3 subproject proposal
POWER Core selection, design, and optimization
FPGA "uncore" required interface definition, I/O definition, on chip bus, build process
OpenBMC updates and performance tuning, what is the minimum feature set / libraries needed
Go from the charter and add more description on working way
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How to select base core(s) to start from
Microwatt (from BoxArty)
Kestrel
A2P
Discussion on what components are needed on FPGA
What exists
Updates required?
What needs to be designed
Notes
LibreBMC Charter Status:
Call for participation went out May 10
14 day window closes May 26
Expect first official meeting to be May 27, need to send that out to membership
Workgroup organization
A2P, Bill Flynn
A2P started from VexRISC-V and converted it to POWER ISA
32b core
See presentation in Google Drive A2P folder for details
A2P is currently ~5400 LUTs, VexRISCV is around 2000 LUTs
Possible differences 1000 LUTS for GPR implementation in FF vs BRAM
Hazard logic is more complex in POWER
May have more hardcoded instructions vs microcoded in VexRISCV
Open Items
Git repository items
Core selection
FPGA Components / Status
Action Items
Start document of links to tools and hardware for others to replicate work.
Diagram of all open tools, how they fit together, what is missing, what needs significant improvement - FuseSoc, OpenLane, Symbiflow, Yosys, openroads, etc https://github.com/hdl
Used by Google’s XLS team -> http://github.com/google/xls
Add current projects that you are working on that relate to LibreBMC or opentools. Plan would be to schedule presentations on them to stir conversation and collahttps://notes.openpower.foundation/T0w6qPMJQkaj_u-UTvkUAQ?both#boration. This will highlight areas where technical issues can be worked across projects.
