See also:
- Opencores.org
- Seeks to design and publish core designs under a license for hardware modelled on the Lesser General Public License (LGPL) for software.
- ARM Developments - Embedded system based on ATMEL AT91M40800 processor and Network Card based on Crystal CS8900A.
- Bug Labs - Develops BUG: modular software and hardware platform, web-enabled, set of pre-matched components: color screen, camera (video enabled), GPS, accelerometer; snap together, no soldering. Open source.
- DAISY: Dynamically Architected Instruction Set from Yorktown - Goals: make VLIW and other novel ILP architectures fully compatible with common extant architectures such as PowerPC, x86, S/390, and Java Virtual Machine.
- Elphel, Inc. - A project working on cameras and imaging solutions with Free software and open hardware. Contains a list of products along with their prices and documentation.
- Ethernut - Several open source reference designs, based on 8-bit AVR, ARM7 and ARM9. All schematics and the CAD data are published as open source hardware.
- Manticore - Was "The HULK"; hardware design for a 3D graphics accelerator, written fully in VHDL. Open source.
- Open Graphics Project: OGP - Goals: design an open source hardware, architecture and standard for graphics cards, mainly for open source software and operating systems.
- Open Programmer - Free USB programmer for PIC micros, I2C EEPROMs and other devices. Control applications for Windows and GNU/Linux are provided along with their source code.
- OpenCollector Database - Site has a searchable index of many designs, tools and manufacturers.
- PIC USB Prototype Development Board - Prototype development boards based on PIC18LF4455 microcontroller with open source bootloader and schematics.
- Ronja (Reasonable Optical Near Joint Access) - Optical point-to-point data link.
- SystemC - Broadly supported C++ open source language and simulation kernel for modeling and implementing electronic systems.
- Writings on Open Source Hardware - A collection of links to writings on themes related to Open Source Hardware like definitions, libraries, talks and conferences.
- The Future of Hardware is Open Source - Brief analysis of some benefits, problems, and means. Raiden's Realm. (October 8, 2007)
- Open Source Hardware: Birth of a Long Tail Market? - Asks what if creating computer hardware became as individualized, as free from corporate control, as open source software, with future scenario where this occurs. (September 19, 2007)
- Richard Stallman: On Free Hardware - Stallman's views, definition, problems. Linux Today. (June 22, 1999)
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