{"id":1421,"date":"2026-08-03T19:05:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T08:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/?p=1421"},"modified":"2026-08-03T19:05:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T08:05:18","slug":"current-designs-seem-stable-more-work-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/blog\/2026\/08\/03\/current-designs-seem-stable-more-work-to-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Current Designs Seem Stable, More Work To Do"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Hardware State<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 305 CPU core is working very well and reliably in testing so far, I haven&#8217;t encountered any major issues since I originally got it working on FPGA (hopefully that was mostly just one-off problems).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Minor issues that can be improved from here are reducing some internal drag to allow for higher speeds and adding more extensions for easy CPU-style management &amp; more optimisation. Customised MCU-like use cases where it launches a fixed program across some number of cores\/threads seem to be stable even when pushing near the capacity of some FPGAs by maxing out the core count.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve been testing across a range of cheap FPGAs and at least one model is very reliable with this design (more testing of this design on others will happen eventually).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Software State<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The OS software, compilers etc. are still a little barebones but mostly working and ready to start porting to hardware. This may involve splitting parts of the OS into example code for embedded developers, or may involve a new version of the kernel built for my own configurations etc. The integration part isn&#8217;t complete yet but things like the filesystem could already be ported to the current soft CPU designs in theory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Current Offering<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I can sell you customised MCU units with customised software if you want (it&#8217;s just not well packaged into a complete set yet).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Packaged offerings will probably come later in the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hardware State The 305 CPU core is working very well and reliably in testing so far, I haven&#8217;t encountered any major issues since I originally got it working on FPGA (hopefully that was mostly just one-off problems). Minor issues that can be improved from here are reducing some internal drag to allow for higher speeds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1422,"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions\/1422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}