I had a good time talking about and doing a demo of AtiVEGA at IndiaFOSS 2024.  My talk was scheduled for the second day of the conference. That talk was titled "Open source in and for Indian Chips". In the talk, Igave an overview, explained the context behind AtiVEGA and gave a short 150MHz overclocking demo. The entire conference was live-streamed,. When you hit the play button in the video below, it will start with my talk:

IndiaFOSS is India's premier volunteer run open source conference, run by the FOSS United community. This time, there was a very healthy hardware component in the conference talks, and in the booths as well.

The talks slides are here, if you need a quick look. The response to the talk frankly beat my expectations!  It is true that my expectations were low, battle scarred veteran that I am. Hardware takes time.  And we have a long way to go in India w.r.t having a large active open hardware development community. All that said, I can sense an undercurrent of adoption. I found a few possible adopters for the board during the conference, and that was heartening! A good start.

So, what next for the project ? The am looking to evolve AtiVEGA into a learner's kit for RISC-V. It's unique clock feature makes it suitable for single stepping and even half stepping the clock. Great for learning and teaching what happens in and out of chips.

I am relaxing this week and the next, and will be travelling. More action after the festive weekend of Onam!