[Libre-soc-dev] Massive EU Grant (up to 26 million) deadline 21st Oct

[Jacob Lifshay]

On Sat, Oct 16, 2021, 07:26 lkcl <luke.leighton at gmail.com> wrote:

> folks i noticed a few days ago a huge opportunity, an EU Grant that even
> says "Open Hardware/Software".
>

ooh!

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> https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/horizon-cl4-2021-digital-emerging-01-01


Noticed it includes "Proposals should include research on advanced
hardware-based security at silicon-level", sounds like the idea I came up
with for meltdown/spectre-proof (for timing/cache/etc. side-channels --
*not* for power side-channels) speculative execution:
https://bugs.libre-soc.org/show_bug.cgi?id=209

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> being unable to resist, David and I have been in overdrive for several
> days on a 30 page application form.
>

:)

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> normally, ha ha, these things take three months to write.


> we have the required participants and member countries.
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> i am not going to be able to focus on anything else significant however
> for the next six days.
>

ok

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> i will be available for questions but please can you therefore each take
> responsibility for active development, self-motivated, and help each other
> out, whilst i finish this application for around EUR 15 million.
>

Yup!

Jacob