About me

My name is David Lanzendörfer and I'm Swiss.
I studied electrical engineering for 6 years in ETHZ (3 years) and ZHAW (another 3 years) and then I decided to move to China in order to build cool gadgets.
I'm right now living in Hong Kong and I'm designing a 100% free and open source micro controller.
Although Hong Kong is inexpensive to live at in general, I need however at least a minimum income in order to buy food while I'm working full time on this micro processor.

The thing I'll gonna build

Since no one will pay me money for just saying "I'll gonna build a 100% FOSS MCU" here is a also a description of what I wanna make in detail

Properties

The micro controller I wanna create will just be the first in a long row of release.
The first one will basically be a 100% free and open ATMega clone which means:

• It contains a RISC-V (32 bit) CPU core
• It can replace the recent ATMega chip within the Arduino boards
• pin compatible to ATMega32
• TTL compatible (5V IO)
• can drive an LED (or alike) on each pin

Features

This baby will contain the full spectrum of peripherals you would expect from a general purpose MCU:

• ADC
• DAC
• PWM
• I2C
• SPI
• UART
• JTAG

Impact

The chip will redefine the standards of Chinese industry by setting totally new quality requirements in the future.