RISC-V in AXIOM
First Fully Open Source 4K Film-making Camera
Antmicro Ltd
Antmicro Ltd
6 years old, 20+ people
new technologies, especially software but also FGPA & HW
own R&D
extensive use of open source
AXIOM Gamma
AXIOM Gamma
first full-sized open-source professional film-making 4K camera
part of the AXIOM project led by apertus - community of film-makers and film enthusiasts
project aimed at creating a modular, ultimately configurable technology platform
AXIOM Gamma is an EU Horizon2020 project with industrial partners
AXIOM Gamma - partners
Aims of AXIOM
create an extendible, open-source platform
... that is a desirable (at least comparable to state-of-the-art) product in itself
community aspect important
open up a fairly closed industry
lower barriers of entry to new players
Aims of RISC-V
create an extendible, open-source platform
... that is a desirable (at least comparable to state-of-the-art) product in itself
community aspect important
open up a fairly closed industry
lower barriers of entry to new players
AXIOM ecosystem
AXIOM Gamma design
AXIOM Gamma - modularity
Current platform
Use of RISC-V in AXIOM
Z-Scale chosen to match performance/resource utilization requirements
acts as soft-core for communication between the FPGA pre-processing board (Kintex-7) and the FPGA SoC main board with a dual-core Cortex-A9 CPU (Zynq 7030)
Why not other soft-cores?
why not RISC-V?
extensibility / customisability aspect
opportunity to contribute
well-aligned with our dual-licensing scheme
Long-term goals
real application with lots of parametrization
broaden adoption of Chisel methodology
marketing aspect
Real world use
AXIOM Gamma project status
more than half-way through!
have feedback about Z-Scale to be discussed in the workshop
EU technical review in March