Woo hoo! just in time: tape & reel packaged Dabao for #39c3. They will be at the #fail0verflow assembly with @bunnie.org . Also come see our talk on Day 2 23:00 in Room 1: "Xous: A Pure-Rust Rethink of the Embedded Operating System", where bunnie & xobs will co-present on Xous running on Baochip!

The basic dev board is in! Meet the "Dabao", a simple breakout board for the Baochip-1x. If you're interested in one and will be at #39C3, come find @bunnie.org at the fail0verflow assembly. He'll have a limited number of Alpha-1 release boards to give away! Source at github.com/baochip/dabao

Nice to see someone has already tried IRIS on their Baochip sample: social.v.st/@cibomahto/1...

Apparently the previous discord link expired. Didn't even realize that they could expire... Here's a link that should have no expiration! discord.gg/yesbcPF9Xy

It's nice to be able to simulate your constant-time code and prove to yourself that you got it right. Pictured is a simulation of AES chaffing, where fake and real data are computed in a random order. The timing of fake->real and real->fake has to be identical in order to mask power side channels.

We've got a Discord now up and running. Come join if you have questions or need support! discord.gg/5SgHvcNB It's early days and we're still figuring out how to configure things, so thanks for your patience as we iron out the wrinkles!

Block diagram of the chip now up on the bao1x repo!

Backside IR image of the chip! The Baochip-1x is packaged specifically to enable you to verify that you've got the correct chip, and not a fake or a substitute part (see bunnie.org/iris for how). The final chip will have part numbering that overlaps the memory array on the lower third of the chip.

Closeup view of the back side of the chip itself!

CHIIIIIIPS!!! 12" wafer of CSP bumped chips, hot off the line (solder balls are face-up in this photo, with a couple die already removed for testing).

A killer app for SoC source code is debugging your code with RTL simulation. Simulation gets you cycle-accurate views into what's happening throughout the system - the program counter, registers, state machines. Learn more on how to simulate the Baochip-1x here: baochip.github.io/baochip-1x/c...

Here's a talk by @bunnie.org that lays much of the foundation for why Baochip, and why it's happening now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxQC...

Source code first: github.com/baochip/baoc... Stay tuned for more! #opensource #priorities