Hello!
I’ve been designing and selling breakout kits for the various Teensy boards for several years now under the name Tall Dog Electronics.
Recently, I’ve designed a whole board centered around the E310-G000 that is roughly the same form-factor as the Teensy, Arduino Micro, Adafruit Trinket (etc.) and I’m very interested in manufacturing it. In fact, it’s almost entirely ready to go. The full hardware design would also be released open-source, most likely CC-BY-SA. I would probably do pre-sales via a small crowdfunding campaign to pay for manufacturing.
However, SiFive hasn’t responded to my recent email inquiry. I’m very small, and I hope that they haven’t determined that I’m not (financially) worth their time. I know they want to sell IP licenses for custom chips. There’s no way I can afford to license their IP and have my own chips manufactured. I just want to use the existing E310 in a development product that’s also licensed as open-source hardware.
Let me know if you have any thoughts or ideas!
Thanks,
Dan