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You can see the motherboard top view with components and connectors, it reflect the progress on pcb design, that is going fast. Before the end of January will be completed !!

Full post on First PCB Desktop Layout!

[We now have the complete electronic source design for our new desktop design in our hands!]

We now have the complete electronic source design for our new desktop design in our hands!

This week, ACube Systems and some volunteers from our association will review the design. We expect the manufacturer to start setting up the PCB layout for the new Powerboard Tyche Desktop on October 20th. This is part of our strategy to focus on creating a stable, functional desktop version of the core computing platform by the end of 2025.

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Until Today forum email doesn't works, so now we have fixed the configuration, so now it works. Sorry for the inconvenience.

[References of the names:]

In October 2020, we've started to ask the community to suggest names for our motherboard. The suggestions were collected from our powerprogress forum and even from Twitter. We voted internally on these names to pick the best candidates for a public vote. So now you can vote on your favourite names!
Our desire is to collect around 1000 votes before decide the final name on the PCB.

References of the names:

Tyche	Presiding tutelary deity governing the fortune and prosperity of a city, its destiny https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyche
Sam2080	Suggested from ACube
Bellatrix	It's the third brightest star of the constellation Orion (x86, ARM... Power is _the_ third architecture, isn't it?). The name also means "female warrior", because you have to have some Am*ga references...
Oliphant	The antique signaling horn, used by heroes like Roland and Charlemagne, thus conceiving the concept of exotic which gives a strong signal
Debbie	"Introduced on July 23, 1985, during a star-studded gala featuring Andy Warhol and Debbie Harry held at the Vivian Beaumont Theater[10] at Lincoln Center in New York City Debian
FarStar	A space ship imagined by Asimov in its book "Foundation’s Edge", a "gravitic" ship with a sophisticated computer interface for controlling its movements through space that responds to the driver's thoughts
Hénon	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A9non_map
Durandal	The mythical sword of Roland/Orlando, conveices the expession of myth and power, but also the difficulty of our project with PPC. Furthermore the name assonates with several wors. "Dur", "Durare" (=to last in Italian), "Duro" =(hard, hard to beat, resilient)
Lilly	my catty dog, do you remember Jay Miner dog on Amiga1000?  Also it's a girl name as the Amiga custom chips.
Velouria	A song from The Pixies. Amiga boards have B52's song titles as names. Also it's a girl name as the Amiga custom chips. Song meaning: https://songmeanings.com/songs/view/43064/?&specific_com=73015985030#comments
Overture	It’s commonly a term used in symphonies, so it really gives a feel of power and elegance, which are potential benefits of this project. It even gives you a whole registry of follow-up terms centered around music, if subsequent models are produced

The VOTE is moved here

It is with great joy that we present you the first tangible result after years of spending time on planning, ideas, projects and schematics. Below you see pictures of the dummy board, a non-working prototype that was printed with a two-layers PCB that was paid thanks to the ongoing donation campaign.

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At the end of September 2019 Slimbook agreed with us to provide the notebook body without motherboard.

An April 2021 update regarding our Notebook Prototypes inform that:
Slimbook support and time was kindly offered for free. Besides that support, we have received two Slimbook Eclipse enclosures to continue our tests. This will make possible to assemble three prototypes of our PPC Notebook. Again, they did it for free. We have no words.

In the next few days the engineer taking care of the motherboard design will concentrate on the PCB, as the Electrical Schematics are now stable enough.

Thanks to the donations already received, the work on the  PCB design ( done with Mentor pads ) can move forward and we estimate it could be completed by September 2020


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One of the reasons forcing us to speed up the planned activities, is linked to the availability of the Slimbook model Eclipse that will not last forever ... read more...

Debian 10 - Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-11-22 from our new forum

ArcticFox 27.9.18 - Debian package (ppc32) vread more from our new forum

Orcad Source Schematics Published

At the end of August of 2019 we published the first version of the schematics in pdf format. Then, in October we uploaded the second version and after that the 13th of November we released the Orcad source, accomplishing what we promised.
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Video of the Presentation at Vicenza Linux User Group  â€" Vicenza â€" Italy â€" 26th November 2019
Presented by Roberto Innocenti  from Power Progress Community ( our assocation) and Enrico Vidale from Acube Systems
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Guillermo is updating about our project on 25h October 2019 at GNU/Linux Valencia Group

For the second time we were giving a talk to the GNU/Linux Valencia Group, a local Linux group located in the city of Valencia, Spain, which is doing a great job promoting Linux and open source in general. Guillermo gave a brief explanation of the project from the[...]

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This long awaited campaign finally begins!

Few days ago we announced that Slimbook will provide the enclosure we need for our Open Hardware PowerPC notebook. In addition to that, we have published in our repository the pdf containing the new version of the schematics. Further updates will

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One of the main points when you are designing a laptop is the relationship between the motherboard and the enclosure. It is not a good idea to design the motherboard if you don’t have the chassis. At the same time, the enclosure has to take into account how the motherboard will be.

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We announce the cooperation with C-Media. Who is C-Media? C-Media is a global leading audio IC/software solution provider.

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This is our first successful attempt to setup a T2080rdb with a video card.
The RadeonHD 5450 is attached to the onboard PCI Express Gen3 4x connector using a 16x cable adapter.

We are using this board as it uses the same CPU (NXP T2080) as the one selected for our Open Hardware laptop project

You may find more infos about the board here...

https://www.powerpc-notebook.org/2018/07/nxp-dev-board-t2080-e6500-with-debian-sid-ppc64-and-radeonhd/

It’s with joy that the Power Progress Community proudly announce the complete funding of the Hardware Research and Design phase for the Electrical Schematics. This phase has achieved the identification and design of all aspects of the motherboard reducing uncertainties related to the hardware specifications and, consequently, the production costs.

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[JdLL 2018]

JdLL 2018

As you probably know, we were attending the JDLL meeting (Journées du Logiciel Libre, The days of the open software, https://www.jdll.org/) and we promised to give an update about our participation. This time, our attendees were Phillipe Ferrucci and Fadi Osman. They gave a speech introducing our project and explained all the details. Using Fadi’s own words:

“It was a pleasure meeting Philippe! We also saw the OpenSUSE guys and other people one of which is the inventor of the magnetic stripe. Very impressive!

The Haiku people were very nice and helped us!”

During the speech about twenty to thirty  people were attending. We were asked the usual questions: Why have you chosen PowerPC?  Is PowerPC really open source? …

Encourage the continued support of PPC64

Continuing our Yocto Project research

Adelie / Alpine PowerPC distro

Compiling PowerPC64 Debian packages on IBM Power8 instance at the Oregon University

Power Progress Community Debian repository


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We are very happy to announce that our funding campaign has just started.
Starting today, we will accept donations through our campaign page with the objective of collecting funds to establish a contract with Acube Systems to design the PowerPC Notebook motherboard....

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