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31. May 2007

Chip-Fab in the Swiss Rheintal
Innovation (wiki) - urs @ 21:03:46

Espros Photonics Corporation (epc), just recently founded, is going to build a chip factory in Switzerland. The production of photonics products is planned to start in 2010 [1,2,3].

[1] http://www.espros-photonics.com
[2] http://www.espros-photonics.com/downloads/pdfs/Praesentation_epc.pdf
[3] http://www.espros-photonics.com/downloads/pdfs/Verwaltungsrat_epc.pdf

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civil_society, random_thought, politics, best_of, innovation

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07. December 2005

Open Hardware - SUN opens up UltraSPARC processors
Open Source (wiki) | Innovation (wiki) - urs @ 18:12:38

Just recently I played with the open hardware idea when blogging about the $100 laptop. Now, SUN has opened up their UltraSPARC T1 processor design [1,2]. Of course, it is a long way from Verilog to the final chip. But at least for Universities it is an intersting opportunity.

At the Ingenieurschule Biel we used to work with Verilog and VHDL [3] and then implemented alorightms and microprocessor cores etc. in FPGA chips, as it has e.g. been done for the the so called "Gecko" project [4]. Verilog and FPGA are quite perfect for rapid prototyping and therefore of interest for research and development industries.

[1] http://news.google.ch/news?q=open+sparc+sun
[2] http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2005-12/sunflash.20051206.4.html
[3] http://www.hta-bi.bfh.ch/E/Laboratories/Microelectronics/courses/vlsi/VLSIsystem.pdf
[4] http://www.microlab.ch/pdf/Papers/soc01.pdf

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apple, linux, media, open_source, moblog

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07. November 2005

Tweakfest - visions of digital lifestyle
Deutsch (wiki) | Science (wiki) | Innovation (wiki) - urs @ 13:16:13

Am 9. und 10. November 2005 findet "tweakfest" in der Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Zürich statt. Medienkultur, Forschung, Kreativwirtschaft, Innovation und Unterhaltungselektronik treffen aufeinenander und finden heraus, wie wer von wem was lernen kann [1].

[1] http://www.tweakfest.ch

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11. June 2005

reboot 7.0 - european meetup for the practical visionaries
Innovation (wiki) - urs @ 11:08:17

Just came along an interesting meetup currently running in copenhagen [1]. Impressions by Michael Heilemann [2].

[1] http://reboot.dk/reboot7/
[2] http://www.flickr.com/photos/heilemann/sets/438545/