This list was automatically generated from the Open Collector database for open hardware tools/designs. All entries on this list reflect work which is available without charge and with source - whether source code, or schematics and designs.

• Design tools and software
  • Digital
    • Data Entry
    • Simulation
      • General
      • Spice or alternatives
      • Verilog
      • VHDL
    • Synthesis
      • ASIC
      • FPGA
      • Logic Minimization
      • PCB Design
    • Educational
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  Design Tools

  • Data Entry

    • Brusey20
      a tool which converts state diagrams into synthesizable VHDL.
      Details
    • ChipVault
      ChipVault is a project organizer for VHDL and Verilog RTL hardware designs.
      Details
    • Circuit_macros
      This is a set of macros for drawing high-quality line diagrams to include in TeX, LaTeX, or similar documents.
      Details
    • Emacs VHDL Mode
      VHDL Mode is an Emacs major mode for editing files containing VHDL code.
      Details
    • GraphViz
      Graphviz is a set of graph drawing tools for Unix or MS-Windows (win32), including a web service interface (webdot).
      Details
    • Hardware::Verilog::Parser
      The Hardware::Verilog::Parser Perl module contains a Verilog grammar.
      Details
    • NGPaint
      NGPaint arose out of discussions on how to post schematics to newsgroups using minimal bandwidth.
      Details
    • QCAD
      QCad is a 2D CAD system for Linux.
      Details
    • Source Navigator for Verilog
      Source Navigator for Verilog is full featured tool for editing and navigating through large projects with many verilog files.
      Details
    • v2html
      html is a free perl script that takes verilog designs and converts them to html.
      Details
    • VGI
      VHDL Graphical Interface is a set of awk scripts which allow you to enter structural VHDL and state machines with the graphic program tgif.
      Details
    • VHD2VL
      vhd2vl is a VHDL to Verilog translation program.
      Details
    • VHDL-GUI
      A graphical tool for capturing, drawing, editing, and navigating hierarchical block-diagrams, and for producing corresponding structural VHDL code.
      Details

  • Simulation

    • General

      • DigiTcl
        DigiTcl is a graphical user interface which allows users to construct and simulate simple digital circuits.
        Details
      • DILL
        DILL (Digital Logic in LOTOS) is an approach for specifying digital logic circuits and translating them to LOTOS.
        Details
      • DLSim
        A java based digital logic simulator, designed to be used as an educational tool.
        Details
      • EXOR
        Exor is an object oriented digital circuit simulator.
        Details
      • FCoverage
        Functional/Toggle Coverage tool using VCD dump file.
        Details
      • gdcsim
        Gdcsim is a digital circuit simulator that can test the dickens out of your design.
        Details
      • GNUPIC
        An entire suite of PIC development tools under GPL, so that people can program PICs using the platform and operating system of their choice.
        Details
      • GOSSIP
        The goal of the GOSSIP project is to develop and maintain a simulation environment for use primarily in communications engineering and digital signal processing.
        Details
      • gpsim
        gpsim is a full-featured software simulator for Microchip PIC microcontrollers.
        Details
      • GTKWave
        GTKWave is a fully featured GTK+ v1_2 based wave viewer for Unix and Win32 which reads industry standard VCD/EVCD files, a new format called LXT and (if you're lucky) Synopsys(EPIC) TimeMill .
        Details
      • Jarp
        An interactive Java-based tool for Petri Nets.
        Details
      • KLogic
        KLogic is an application for easy building and simulating of digital circuits.
        Details
      • LARD
        LARD is a hardware description language developed for describing asynchronous systems - though little is specific to that purpose, so you could use it to descibe synchronous systems if you wanted, or even as a general purpose programming language.
        Details
      • Modelica 1.3.1
        Modelica is an object-oriented language for the development of many types of simulator.
        Details
      • PCISim
        PCISIM is both a logic simulation library and a PCI simulation environment coded using the simulation library.
        Details
      • Polis
        POLIS is a co-design environment for control-dominated embedded systems.
        Details
      • Retro
        Retro is a tool for designing synchronous hardware systems on register-transfer level.
        Details
      • SigLab
        SigLab is a calculator designed for working on signals.
        Details
      • SystemC
        SystemC is a modeling platform consisting of C++ class libraries and a simulation kernel for design at the system-behavioral and register-transfer-levels (first versions are RTL with full system-behavioural support coming later).
        Details
      • TCAD
        TCAD is a suite of programs for IC process and device modelling developed at Stanford University; older versions of the programs are available under an open-source license.
        Details
      • The HACK Project
        This application is intended to be used as a teaching aid for computer architecture.
        Details
      • THUD
        THUD is a register transfer level (RTL) simulation environment optimized for cycle-based designs.
        Details
      • tlogsim
        Tlogsim is an extensible graphical logic circuit simulator for GTK 2.
        Details
      • Vipec
        ViPEC is a powerful tool for the analysis of high frequency, linear electrical networks.
        Details

    • Spice and Alternatives

      • Al's Circuit Simulator
        ACS is a general purpose mixed signal circuit simulator.
        Details
      • Autochar
        The program autochar is used to automate the characterization of digital circuits.
        Details
      • Bitgen
        BitGen accepts text strings of 1's, 0's and hex digits and converts them to equivalent pwl voltage sources for inclusion in netlists for circuit simulation (with SPICE or Spectre, for example).
        Details
      • Eaglesp3
        Eaglesp3 is a Spice3 simulation upgrade and library for the Eagle Light layout and schematics entry system from Cadsoft (Eagle Light is free for non-commercial use).
        Details
      • GHDL
        GHDL is a GCC front-end for the VHDL (IEEE 1076) language.
        Details
      • gMOS
        gMOS calculates some 'fundamental' parameters (Gm, gds, vdssat etc) according to inputs (W,L,Vg,Vs etc) of a MOS transistor.
        Details
      • GNUcap
        GnuCap is the Gnu Circuit Analysis Package.
        Details
      • gwave
        Gwave is a waveform viewer.
        Details
      • MacSpice3f4
        SPICE - Simulation Program with Integrated Circuit Emphasis, is a general-purpose program developed at the University of California at Berkeley for nonlinear dc, nonlinear transient, and linear ac analyses.
        Details
      • ng-spice
        The ng-spice project aims to improve the capabilities of the spice3f5 circuit simulator from the Berkeley CAD Group.
        Details
      • PNS
        PNS is a simple simulation system for extended place/transition Petri nets.
        Details
      • SEAMS
        SEAMS is a mixed-signal simulator for models written in the VHDL-AMS language.
        Details
      • SLS
        SLS is a switch-level simulator that can be used to simulate the logical and timing behavior of digital MOS circuits.
        Details
      • Spice
        The simulation system.
        Details
      • spicepp
        spicepp is a preprocessor for berkeley spice3f5.
        Details
      • SUGAR
        SUGAR is a simulation tool for MEMS devices based on nodal analysis techniques from the world of integrated circuit simulation.
        Details
      • TkGate
        TkGate is a event driven digital circuit simulator with a tcl/tk-based graphical editor.
        Details
      • Wave2hsp
        wave2hsp is a non-gui (command line) spice/hspice stimuli generator which reads a command file containing digital waveforms specified using ascii characters.
        Details
      • Weblab
        Weblab provides electronic circuit simulation with a Java-based schematic entry and wave viewer, based on (Berkeley) SPICE, for any OS/Server/Browser configuration.
        Details

    • Verilog

      • Alice
        Alice is a compiler for the OpenVera language.
        Details
      • ChipVault
        ChipVault is a project organizer for VHDL and Verilog RTL hardware designs.
        Details
      • CNets2000
        CNets is an experimental, work-in-progress C++ class library that makes it easy to capture, represent, and manipulate structural (hierarchical) circuit descriptions.
        Details
      • Covered
        Covered is a Verilog code coverage utility that reads in a Verilog design and generated VCD dumpfile from that design and generates a coverage file that can be merged with other coverage files and/or used to create a coverage report.
        Details
      • Dinotrace
        Dinotrace is a X-11 waveform viewer which understands Verilog Value Change Dumps, ASCII, and other trace formats.
        Details
      • File I/O for Verilog
        This is a PLI application to allow you to read ASCII and binary files from Verilog, and write more than 32 files at once.
        Details
      • gtree
        An initial version of an HDL tree viewer.
        Details
      • Hardware::Simulator
        Hardware::Simulator implements a hardware descriptor language in perl.
        Details
      • Hardware::Verilog::Parser
        The Hardware::Verilog::Parser Perl module contains a Verilog grammar.
        Details
      • HDLMaker
        HDLmaker was written by Joshua Rosen and Polybus Systems Corp, as an aid for the development of complex VHDL or Verilog FPGA designs.
        Details
      • Icarus Verilog
        Icarus Verilog is a gpled Verilog simulation and synthesis tool.
        Details
      • IDaSS
        The 'Interactive Design and Simulation System' allows mixed graphics/text entry of complex RTL designs with integrated and interactive simulation.
        Details
      • IPal
        Icarus PAL is a toolkit which will be used by an Icarus Verilog target module to generate 22v10 designs.
        Details
      • iSDF
        iSDF is an SDF timing annotator for the Icarus Verilog VVP simulation engine.
        Details
      • ivi
        IVI (Icarus Verilog Interactive) is an interactive front-end to the superb Icarus verilog compiler/simulator written by Stephen Williams.
        Details
      • Jeda
        Jeda is a C-like programming language for hardware design verification.
        Details
      • pcisim
        Verilog models for a smart memory, a PCI arbiter and a bus master that can be operated by a remote process.
        Details
      • Scriptsim
        ScriptSim is a tool designed to improve productivity in asic design and verification.
        Details
      • Simsynch
        SIMSYNCH is a digital logic simulator written for the SCM Scheme implementation.
        Details
      • SMI
        Alpha release of an open source library for creating C++ models of hardware components used in Verilog hardware simulations.
        Details
      • Source Navigator for Verilog
        Source Navigator for Verilog is full featured tool for editing and navigating through large projects with many verilog files.
        Details
      • STDCell
        A standard cell library for 0,35u.
        Details
      • TCLforEDA
        This is the TCL for EDA tools Web site.
        Details
      • tgt-edif
        Tgt-edif is an EDIF 2 output module for the Icarus verilog compiler.
        Details
      • TkGate
        TkGate is a event driven digital circuit simulator with a tcl/tk-based graphical editor.
        Details
      • v2html
        html is a free perl script that takes verilog designs and converts them to html.
        Details
      • v2k
        Verilog-AMS pre-processor/parser/database/elaborator.
        Details
      • VBS
        VBS stands for Verilog Behavioral Simulator.
        Details
      • VCD Waveform Viewer
        This is a tool for viewing vcd (value change dump) files under linux vcd files are often produced by verilog simulators, and other things.
        Details
      • Ver
        Created to fill the need for a small portable Verilog compiler that doesn't have the sourcecode size limits of the VeriWell training simulator.
        Details
      • verilator
        Verilator is a Verilog to C translator, and Verilog simulator shell.
        Details
      • Verilog2C++
        Verilog2C++ extracts a set of FSMs which a Verilog-RTL defines in terms and translates the extracted FSMs to C++ statements.
        Details
      • Vertex
        Vertex is a freely distributable Verilog parser: the intended use of Vertex is a compiler front-end which generates syntax trees for semantic analysis.
        Details
      • Vex
        Vex is a toolkit for creating CAD tools that access and manipulate verilog designs.
        Details
      • VHD2VL
        vhd2vl is a VHDL to Verilog translation program.
        Details
      • vIDE
        vIDE (which stands for Verilog IDE) is a fully featured, cross-platform, integrated environment for designing, testing and debugging Verilog applications.
        Details
      • VIS
        VIS (Verification Interacting with Synthesis) is a tool that integrates the verification, simulation, and synthesis of finite-state hardware systems.
        Details
      • vl
        The vl program is a Verilog simulator.
        Details

    • VHDL

      • Alice
        Alice is a compiler for the OpenVera language.
        Details
      • ASIP
        The aim of the project is to generate fully synthesizable VHDL code for a microprocessor given a set of parameters.
        Details
      • Brusey20
        a tool which converts state diagrams into synthesizable VHDL.
        Details
      • ChipVault
        ChipVault is a project organizer for VHDL and Verilog RTL hardware designs.
        Details
      • CNets2000
        CNets is an experimental, work-in-progress C++ class library that makes it easy to capture, represent, and manipulate structural (hierarchical) circuit descriptions.
        Details
      • DGC - Digital Gate Compiler
        DGC is a tool for the creation of digital netlists.
        Details
      • Electric
        The Electric VLSI Design System is a framework for all computer-aided design and engineering work.
        Details
      • Emacs VHDL Mode
        VHDL Mode is an Emacs major mode for editing files containing VHDL code.
        Details
      • FreeHDL
        The project goals are to develop a VHDL simulator that: Has a graphical waveform viewer; has a source level debugger; is VHDL-93 compliant; is of commercial quality.
        Details
      • Gael
        Gael (GTk Assisted Electronics) is an electronic design automation tool integrated into GNOME 2.
        Details
      • GHDL
        GHDL is a GCC front-end for the VHDL (IEEE 1076) language.
        Details
      • Hardware::Simulator
        Hardware::Simulator implements a hardware descriptor language in perl.
        Details
      • Hardware::Vhdl::Parser
        The Hardware::Vhdl::Parse.
        Details
      • HDLMaker
        HDLmaker was written by Joshua Rosen and Polybus Systems Corp, as an aid for the development of complex VHDL or Verilog FPGA designs.
        Details
      • IDaSS
        The 'Interactive Design and Simulation System' allows mixed graphics/text entry of complex RTL designs with integrated and interactive simulation.
        Details
      • pdcodes
        The pdcodes program is a perl-based system for generating and verifying implementation models of mathematical coding systems.
        Details
      • PICA
        VHDL compiler and simulator from the University of Pittsburg.
        Details
      • RHDL
        RHDL stands for Ruby Hardware Description Language.
        Details
      • Savant
        Savant is an extensible VHDL 93 analyzer/simulator supporting parallel simulation across a variety of hardware platforms.
        Details
      • SEAMS
        SEAMS is a mixed-signal simulator for models written in the VHDL-AMS language.
        Details
      • SRecord
        SRecord is a collection of powerful tools for manipulating EPROM load files.
        Details
      • Vaul
        VAUL, a VHDL frontend that wants to be complete, correct and flexible.
        Details
      • VGI
        VHDL Graphical Interface is a set of awk scripts which allow you to enter structural VHDL and state machines with the graphic program tgif.
        Details
      • VHD2VL
        vhd2vl is a VHDL to Verilog translation program.
        Details
      • VHDL++
        VHDL++ is an augmented version of VHDL.
        Details
      • VHDL-GUI
        A graphical tool for capturing, drawing, editing, and navigating hierarchical block-diagrams, and for producing corresponding structural VHDL code.
        Details
      • vhdl-posix
        This package provides support for accessing POSIX features from VHDL.
        Details
      • vhdl2c
        vhdl2c is a vhdl to `C' converter by Michael Knieser, based on Thomas Dettmer's yacc grammar for VHDL.
        Details
      • VHDLParser
        VHDL Parser is the first VHDL93 parser which was written in pure Java.
        Details
      • XFuzzy
        Xfuzzy is an environment for the design, verification and synthesis of fuzzy logic based systems in software or hardware.
        Details
    
    

  • Synthesis

    • ASIC

      • Alliance
        The Alliance package was created at the former MASI Laboratory of the Pierre et Marie Curie University (UPMC), in Paris with the goal of providing undergraduate and graduate students with a complete CAD framework, designed to assist them in a digital VLSI CMOS course.
        Details
      • Boolean
        The program is a viewer and editor for various types of file (such as GDSII) used in the chip design industry.
        Details
      • Chipmunk
        Chipmunk is a complete set of tools for ASIC design, including schematic capture, simulation, and circuit layout.
        Details
      • gdsreader
        gdsreader is a Calma (GDSii) reader/parser/print tool.
        Details
      • Magic
        Magic is the classic ASIC layout tool developed at Berkeley in the late 80s and still used today for chip design.
        Details
      • MSL Pad Library
        This library contains MAGIC pad cells for the PixelFlow project's custom chips.
        Details
      • UCLA P.D. Tools
        The UCLA Capo large scale placement tool, the MLPart partitioner, and an OO VLSI Database with Cadence LEF/DEF parser and support libraries, developed at UCLA under funding from Cadence.
        Details
      • VHDLParser
        VHDL Parser is the first VHDL93 parser which was written in pure Java.
        Details

    • FPGA

      • Chipmunk
        Chipmunk is a complete set of tools for ASIC design, including schematic capture, simulation, and circuit layout.
        Details
      • DGC - Digital Gate Compiler
        DGC is a tool for the creation of digital netlists.
        Details
      • HDLMaker
        HDLmaker was written by Joshua Rosen and Polybus Systems Corp, as an aid for the development of complex VHDL or Verilog FPGA designs.
        Details
      • JBITs Interface
        The system consists of a modified version of vpack and vpr for place and route, combined with a set of Java classes which use the Xilinx Jbits API.
        Details
      • JBits Toolkit
        The JBitsToolkit is a set of tools which use the JBits FPGA API in order to perform a variety of functions.
        Details
      • JHDL
        JHDL is a set of FPGA CAD tools which allows the user to design the structure and layout of a circuit, debug the circuit in simulation, netlist, and interface with backend tools for synthesis, etc.
        Details
      • Streams-C
        Streams-C aims to provide efficient compiler technology to map high level C language descriptions into circuits for Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs).
        Details
      • VPR
        VPR is a placement and routing tool for array-based FPGAs.
        Details
      • XFuzzy
        Xfuzzy is an environment for the design, verification and synthesis of fuzzy logic based systems in software or hardware.
        Details
      • Xnf-tools
        Ingo Cyliax has developed several tools to support Diglog (part of the Chipmunk distribution) as a schematic capture environment for Xilinx FPGA chips.
        Details

    • PLDs

      • IPal
        Icarus PAL is a toolkit which will be used by an Icarus Verilog target module to generate 22v10 designs.
        Details
      • JamP
        Linux port of Altera's Jam package.
        Details
      • Palstuff
        A collection of source code relating to PAL design.
        Details
      • ptgnlfsr
        ptgnlfsr generates a PLD (Programmable Logic Device) programming table and also computes the LFSR/BILBO (Linear Feedback Shift Register/Built-In Logic Block Observer) signature for function(s) entered by the user.
        Details
      • Retro
        Retro is a tool for designing synchronous hardware systems on register-transfer level.
        Details

    • Logic Minimization

      • Espresso
        Classic logic minimization package.
        Details
      • espresso-ab
        A `cleaned up' copy of the ever popular Espresso logic minimization tool from UCB.
        Details
      • Wave2hsp
        wave2hsp is a non-gui (command line) spice/hspice stimuli generator which reads a command file containing digital waveforms specified using ascii characters.
        Details
      
      

    • PCB Design

      • CircuitSmith
        CircuitSmith is to be a comprehensive electronic design package being developed in Java which will include schematic capture, printed circuit board layout.
        Details
      • Electric
        The Electric VLSI Design System is a framework for all computer-aided design and engineering work.
        Details
      • gdcsim
        Gdcsim is a digital circuit simulator that can test the dickens out of your design.
        Details
      • GenCAM API
        A Java API for the GenCAM PCB description format.
        Details
      • gerb2tif
        gerb2tif is a command line driven program that will read an input file of Gerber RS273X format and generates a raster graphics bitmap.
        Details
      • gerbv
        Gerber Viewer (gerbv) is a viewer for Gerber files.
        Details
      • HDLMaker
        HDLmaker was written by Joshua Rosen and Polybus Systems Corp, as an aid for the development of complex VHDL or Verilog FPGA designs.
        Details
      • kban
        Kban is a manual PCB routing package for Windows 95.
        Details
      • Lasagne
        This project aims at creating a new PCB (printed circuit board) layout/CAD/CAM program.
        Details
      • MPCBDM
        BDM Interface for MPC860/850/823 with gdb access: Here's a for non-commercial usage free blueprint for a BDM interface for the MPC860/850/823.
        Details
      • MUCS-PCB
        The MUCS-PCB software was developed between 1985 and 1992 as part of a research project exploring PCB routing algorithms.
        Details
      • PCB
        Unix-based gpl-ed PCB design package.
        Details
      • PCBCA
        A printed circuit board (pcb) autorouting software package .
        Details
      • Protel Easytrax drivers
        Up-to-date video drivers for Protel EasyTrax/Autotrax/Dos schematic.
        Details
      • Protel Easytrax printer driver
        Up-to-date printer drivers for Protel EasyTrax/Autotrax/Dos schematic.
        Details
      • Punto
        PUNTO is a perl script for transforming and optimizing PCB netlists.
        Details
      • SATCAD
        SATCAD is a DOS-based schematic capture, pcb design and tooling package.
        Details
      • TraxLaserPlot
        Advanced PCB plotting for Autotrax / Easytrax using postscript.
        Details
      • Xelen
        Xelen is a program package for developing and simulating electrical sheets and creating layouts for printed circuits boards under Unix, Windows or MacOS.
        Details
      • XRoadMaker
        XRoadMaker is a gnome printed circuit board designer.
        Details
    
    

  • Educational

    • KSimus
      KSimus is a KDE tool for simulation, automatization and visualization of technical processes.
      Details
    • WebLab
      WebLab is a platform-independent client server application for (e-)learning basic analog circuits.
      Details

  • Other

    • ATLC
      The programme ATLC calculates the impedance of transmission lines of totally arbitrary cross section.
      Details
    • Balsa
      Balsa is both a framework for synthesising asynchronous (clockless) hardware systems and the language for describing such systems.
      Details
    • BEprommer
      BEprommer is a command-line (e)eprom programming software for Linux.
      Details
    • Boardstatus
      Boardstatus is a Web-CGI/Postgresql database to manage electronic prototypes, including batch lists, notes, and parameters.
      Details
    • Boolstuff
      BoolStuff is a small C++ library that supports a few operations on boolean expression binary trees.
      Details
    • BSOSC
      Bsosc is a Bitscope oscilloscope to handle the Bitscope data capture device.
      Details
    • Cascade
      Cascade is a program for analyzing the noise and distortion performance of a cascade of elements in an electronic system.
      Details
    • Classic Ladder
      A project to have a free ladder language for PLCs in C.
      Details
    • ColdFire Emulator
      This is a Motorola Coldfire 5206 Emulator.
      Details
    • Crosstalk Analizer
      Crosstalk Analizer is an application to detect crosstalk problems in submicron circuits (chips).
      Details
    • CynLib
      For a hardware description language to become a standard requires time and a lot of real-world experience.
      Details
    • Dsim
      Esim is a project that will allow you to design an electronic circuit using a schematic editor, then simulate that circuit in software.
      Details
    • E.Smith
      Electronic Smith chart generator in Java.
      Details
    • EBS
      The purpose of the Experimental Boundary Scan project (EBSp) is to provide completely open and flexible software support for commercially available JTAG/IEEE 1149-1 boundary scan master (BSM) controllers.
      Details
    • EDIF Parser
      A parser for EDIF 2.
      Details
    • EMC
      The NIST Enhanced Machine Controller project runs on top of the realtime Linux kernel.
      Details
    • Firmware Factory
      Firmware Factory is a public domain Windows95/NT based development environment for microcontrollers.
      Details
    • Flex
      FLEX is an intelligent compiler project including the FLEX compiler infrastructure, and a Java-to-hardware compiler, Harpoon.
      Details
    • FreeAbel
      Free Abel is a free (GPL) set of programs for use with Abel-HDL files.
      Details
    • gEDA
      gEDA and friends (gaf) is a collection of tools which are used for electrical circuit design, simulation and prototyping/production.
      Details
    • gerber2eps
      Gerber2eps is a small program for converting Gerber RS-274D files to Encapsulated Postscript (EPS).
      Details
    • GPIB-TCL
      GPIB-Tcl is an extension to the Tcl programming language to allow communication with measurement equipment through the industry-standard IEEE-488 (GPIB) bus.
      Details
    • GtkBlowit
      GtkBlowIT (a.
      Details
    • ianjtag
      ianjtag tools are a collection of code and a set of tools for using the JTAG interface (present in most modern microprocessors) to perform hardware tests, and for programming Flash Memory Devices connected to the processor's bus.
      Details
    • JTAG Tools
      JTAG Tools is a software package which enables working with JTAG-aware (IEEE 1149.
      Details
    • jtag-util
      This is a first attempt to make a software base layer for host-side access to JTAG Test Access Ports.
      Details
    • KDMM
      KDMM is an application to use digital multimeters with serial interface (RS 232) together with your computer.
      Details
    • KFilter
      KFilter is an application to design acoustic hifi loudspeakers in a theoretical way.
      Details
    • kic
      Kic is a toy integrated circuit layout editor, which has actually been used to produce some fairly complex designs.
      Details
    • KSimus
      KSimus is a KDE tool for simulation, automatization and visualization of technical processes.
      Details
    • LMeter
      LMeter allows one to take a multilayer superconductive cell layout and calculate its inductance matrix (which incorporates both self- and mutual-inductances).
      Details
    • MPAC
      MPAC is a multiplatform tool to calculate various electrical performance parameters of a rectangular microstrip patch antenna.
      Details
    • Multimeter
      Multimeter is a simple command line utility that reads values from a Metex 4650CR or ME-11 digital multimeter using the serial interface.
      Details
    • MVSIS
      MVSIS, a program designed for synthesis and optimization of multi-valued logic networks, is modeled after SIS (a binary logic optimization program for hardware).
      Details
    • nlc
      Christian Iseli's C++ to netlist (Viewlogic WIR, Xilinx XC4000) compiler.
      Details
    • OpenMORE
      Mentor Graphics Corporation and Synopsys Inc have released the jointly developed OpenMORE (Open Measure of Reuse Excellence) reference assessment program for evaluating the reusability of hard and soft intellectual property (IP) cores for System-on-Chip (SoC) designs.
      Details
    • Oregano
      An electrical engineering tool for GNOME.
      Details
    • Physical Design Tools
      The UCLA/ABKgroup Physical Design Tools contain over 100,000 lines in C++ implementing leading-edge industrial-grade VLSI Physical Design tools: Capo placer, MLPart partitioner, object-oriented UCLA DB database with LEF/DEF parser and all supporting libraries.
      Details
    • Pinout
      Pinout is a perl script which makes it easy to produce nice looking postscript ballout/pinout images for BGA or PGA type integrated circuits.
      Details
    • PP06 Programmer Software
      Production (3 level) Programmer for Microchip PICs.
      Details
    • Pumpkin
      Pre-synthesis optimization package for Olympus.
      Details
    • Qfsm
      Qfsm is a graphical editor for finite state machines written in C++ using Qt the graphical Toolkit from Trolltech.
      Details
    • QMC
      The Quine McClusky Simplification Tool optimizes boolean equations by using the Quine McClusky process.
      Details
    • QtDMM
      QtDMM is a simple DMM readout software including a configurable recorder.
      Details
    • QtDSO
      QtDSO is a simple frontend for the Velleman PCS64i digital oscilloscope.
      Details
    • RealTerm
      RealTerm is Terminal Software for engineers.
      Details
    • S-Record
      The SRecord package is a collection of powerful tools for manipulating EPROM load files.
      Details
    • Sarlacc
      Convert ORCAD schematics to gEDA format.
      Details
    • ScriptEDA
      ScriptEDA uses scripting languages such as Perl and TCL to provide a standard scripting facility for EDA tools.
      Details
    • SDCC
      SDCC is a Free ware , retargettable, optimizing ANSI - C compiler which targets Intel 8051 based MCUs, but can be retargeted for other 8 bit MCUs or PICs.
      Details
    • SecsTcl
      Implements the communications stack for semiconductor fabs based on SEMI standards.
      Details
    • Simple Electronics Library
      Simple Electronics Library is a collection of basic electronics symbols intended for drawing schematics in Xfig in a easy/fast way.
      Details
    • SpiProg
      This is a little programmer for SPI (Serial Periphery Interconnect) EEPROMs such as, but not limited to, Xicor X25640, X25650; Atmel AT25080, AT25160, AT25320 and AT25640.
      Details
    • SPP
      SPP (Synopsys Plus Perl * ) is a Perl module that wraps around Synopsys' shell programs.
      Details
    • TeamBots
      TeamBots is a Java-based collection of application programs and Java packages for multiagent mobile robotics research.
      Details
    • TinyCad
      TinyCAD is a schematic capture program for Windows.
      Details
    • TinyEDA
      This is a schematic entry package written in Pascal for the Windows platforms.
      Details
    • tragesym
      tragesym is a python script that creates symbols out of text.
      Details
    • TransCalc
      Transcalc is an analysis and synthesis tool for calculating the electrical and physical properties of different kinds of RF and microwave transmission lines.
      Details
    • Turns-n-Layers
      Turns-n-Layers is a command line transformer and induction coil design aid that calculates the amount of wire needed, both length (feet) and weight (lbs).
      Details
    • UDL/I
      Unified Design Language for Integrated Circuit (UDL/I) is a Hardware Description Language (HDL) for logic synthesis.
      Details
    • Voyeur
      Voyeur is a visualization tool which displays a circuit schematic on the screen.
      Details
    • XChipLogo
      Xchiplogo is an interface to chiplogo, which is a simple and small program for generating pretty logos for putting on your chips and have a proof that YOU or YOUR FIRM have designed that chip.
      Details
    • XCircuit
      XCircuit is a UNIX/X11 (and Windows with an X-Server running) program for drawing publishable-quality electrical circuit schematic diagrams and related figures, and produce circuit netlists through schematic capture.
      Details
    • Xelcad
      XelCAD is a X-based application, designed to create electrical circuit layouts.
      Details
    • XPortShot RT
      An oscilloscope simulator capable of displaying multiple data channels.
      Details
    • XRLCAD
      This package contains a C++ class library to manipulate Structure (as in Calma/CIF) hierarchies.
      Details

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  Designs

  • Design Libraries

    • Altera FreeCore Library
      The Altera FreeCore Library once started as a site for free function modules for Altera CPLD devices.
      Details
    • FPGA Arcade
      Modern FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) devices allow a whole 1980s arcade PCB to be fitted into a single chip.
      Details
    • Free Model Foundry
      FMF provides open source VHDL and Verilog simulation models of off-the-shelf digital electronic components.
      Details
    • Hamburg VHDL Archive
      The archive intends to provide a collection of free, that is public-domain or shareware, VHDL documentation, models, and tools.
      Details
    • Open Verification Library
      The Open Verification Library (OVL) is an initiative to provide designers, integrators and verification engineers with a single, vendor-independent interface for design verification using simulation, semi-formal and formal verification techniques.
      Details
    • OpenCores
      OpenCORES endorses development of open source, free IP cores.
      Details
    • The Free-IP Project
      The Free-IP project is an effort to make quality IP available to anyone.
      Details
    • VHDL Soft Cores
      High performance FPGA versions of popular microcontrollers.
      Details

  • Computers

    • DIY 6502 prototype
      There are many eight-bit processors, which have been around for a long time.
      Details
    • GnuBook
      A design for a durable and maintainable computing unit with openly published technical specifications at a cost which compares with computers of limited utility that are considered disposable.
      Details
    • Hackinjoe
      A Z-80 homebrew computer.
      Details
    • OOMECS
      The Object Oriented Modular Electronic Component System (OOMECS) is a free (as in free speech, not free beer) computer hardware and software architecture.
      Details
    • Pop Computers
      Pop Computers is the first commercial venture to come out of The OpenPPC Project, co-founded by Pop Computers President Tom Geller.
      Details

  • Embedded Systems

    • 6502.org
      This site has been established to provide a resource for people interested in developing hardware or writing software for the 6502 microprocessor.
      Details
    • AVR Device Programmer
      The AVR Device Programmer Development Kit is a comprehensive and cheap solution to programming and using the Atmel AVR processors ( only the AT90S1200 and AT90S1200A processors are supported at this time ).
      Details
    • CREAT
      A collection of open microcontroller (68HC811) software tools and hardware designs with PCB layouts and schematics.
      Details
    • LART
      Linux Advanced Radio Terminal (LART) is a small low power computing element used in the MMC project.
      Details
    • MAPP
      AVR microcontroller designs and tools under gnu licence.
      Details
    • NF300 Microcomputer
      The NF300 is a small but powerfull embedded control computer which has ben developed at the Fachhochschule Nürnberg.
      Details
    • Pleb
      The goal of the PLEB project is to design and implement hardware & software platforms to aid researchers/hobbiests in the area of portable/embedded systems.
      Details
    • The Computer Journal
      Supporting the trailing edge of technologyThe focus of The Computer Journal is source code and schematics for do-it-yourself software and hardware projects.
      Details
    • The Handy Board
      The Handy Board is a 68HC11-based controller board designed for experimental mobile robotics work.
      Details
    • Val's MC68HC11 Emporium
      The emporium is dedicated to the users of the Motorola MC68HC11 microcontroller chip.
      Details

  • Processor

    • CMOSexod
      Free designs for Lattice CPLDs, including 12 bit DSP core and peripherals, 8-bit microprocessor, etc.
      Details
    • CMU-DSP
      The CMU-DSP is a synthesizable digital signal processing core with functional testing included.
      Details
    • Coldfire104
      Coldfire104 is a low cost Motorola Coldfire 5272 processor that comforms to the PC104 mechanical specification.
      Details
    • CPCNG
      The aim of the CPCNG project is to create a free computer based on the same ideas as the family computers of the 80s like the Amstrad CPC.
      Details
    • Dragonfly
      The DRAGONFLY core is a simple 3 stage pipeline processor with a true Harvard architecture (data and program memory are separated and accessed in parallel).
      Details
    • Dragonfly
      The DRAGONFLY micro core has been designed as a small (less than 4K gates), fast and programmable core.
      Details
    • E-RISC
      The E-Risc is a project to design and implement a scaleable RISC microprocessor for embedded applications.
      Details
    • ERC32
      The ERC32 VHDL models consists of fully functional, timing accurate VHDL models of the SPARC integer unit, floating-point unit and memory controller.
      Details
    • ETC LxScope
      LxScope is a set of Linux software drivers for the M221 and M621 digital oscilloscope cards for PCs.
      Details
    • EZ328SIMM
      Objective: To produce a simpler, more practical, reference design for using the MC68EZ328 processor at a reduced cost with the resulting design running Linux®.
      Details
    • FPGACPU.org
      The purpose of this web site is to explain and promote the design and implementation of FPGA-based CPUs and integrated systems-on-a-chip.
      Details
    • Freedom CPU
      Aims at design and eventually manufacture of a 64-bit CPU .
      Details
    • Gem PowerPC Platform
      The GEM PowerPC Platform will be a powerful and flexible network appliance base platform.
      Details
    • gpprog
      Gpprog is a fast and reliable PIC16F84 programmer.
      Details
    • Jam CPU
      The JAM CPU is a 32bit 5 stage pipelined RISC core with forwarding and hazard handling.
      Details
    • Kiwi
      The goal of the Kiwi project is to create the hardware and software necessary for a usable Linux PDA.
      Details
    • KUE-Chip
      A RTL description and test patterns of Kyoto University Education CHIP-2 (KUE-CHIP2) are open to public.
      Details
    • Leon2
      The LEON core is a SPARC compatible integer unit developed for future space missions.
      Details
    • Leox
      LEOX stands for the LEON toolbOX.
      Details
    • Luna Computers
      Classic octal computers of 24,32, and 36 bits.
      Details
    • m65
      A synthesizable 6502 design using the Parthenon HDL.
      Details
    • Morphy One
      The Japanese Open Hardware Palmtop Computing Association (OHPA), a voluntary user group, is designing and developing a new palmtop computing platform (PCP, not PDA), currently called Morphy One.
      Details
    • MSL16
      The MSL16 machine is a CPU optimised to run the Forth programming language.
      Details
    • MuP21
      This is not a free processor, but its here to show you can produce your own processor without being Intel! The term MISC refers to Minimal Instruction Set Computers in general, and to the chips designed by Chuck Moore at Computer Cowboys.
      Details
    • mZ80
      A Z80 compatible processor.
      Details
    • OpenBIOS
      PCs have had BIOSes since the dawn of time.
      Details
    • OpenCores54x DSP
      The OpenCores54x (OC54x) DSP core is a cleanroom Verilog implementation of the TI C54x DSP.
      Details
    • OpenUP
      This project is designing a general-purpose 8-bit fpga-based microprocessor using VHDL .
      Details
    • Piranha
      Piranha is a spin-off from the Freedom CPU project.
      Details
    • PonyProg
      PonyProg is a serial device programmer software with a user friendly GUI framework available for Windows95, 98 & NT and Intel Linux.
      Details
    • risc16f84
      The risc16f84 project is intended to provide a small, easy to use microcontroller in Verilog.
      Details
    • Risc8
      A fast, low-power, synthesizable RISC processor, which also comes with an assembler.
      Details
    • Ronja
      Ronja connects two PC's point-to-point, using a common red-orange visible light from a car brake light LED.
      Details
    • Sayuri
      VHDL design for a 32 bit processor, currently running at 75MHz in a Xilinx XCV400.
      Details
    • Simputer
      The Simputer Project, initiated by the Simputer trust, aims at developing low cost access device that can pervade the rural landscape, especially in third world countries.
      Details
    • STM
      STM is a 32-bit, 2-way superscalar RISC processor, designed in an HDL.
      Details
    • Synthetic PIC
      The Synthetic PIC is a Verilog synthesizable model of the PIC 16C5X.
      Details
    • T80
      T80 is a Z80, 8080 and gameboy CPU written in VHDL.
      Details
    • tbCPU
      This CPU was designed with the aim to fit it into a 32 macrocell CPLD.
      Details
    • TE16
      TE16 is a small free 16-bit CPU designed for Xilinx's low cost XC5200 series FPGAs.
      Details
    • TRAJA
      Java processor design for synthesis using Parthenon (freely available but binary only synthesis system).
      Details
    • VHDL PIC16C5X Model
      VHDL synthesizable model of PIC16C5X microprocessor.
      Details
    • XESS Database
      At this momment only 2 designs (DSP CORE and Ram Controller).
      Details
    • Xproz
      Documentation (Word for Windows) and schematics (WORKVIEW) for a computer built with only 4 XILINX FPGAs.
      Details
    • xr16vx
      xr16vx is a 16-bit microcontroller design for FPGAs, released as open source programming under the GPL.
      Details
    • XSOC
      The XSOC System-on-a-Chip, includes the new xr16 pipelined RISC processor core, on-chip bus, bus/memory controller, and integrated peripherals (parallel port, bilevel VGA controller), all in a single Xilinx XC4005XL FPGA.
      Details
    • ZXGate
      A complete implementation of the old Sinclair ZX81, in a single FPGA (currently implemented for Spartan II).
      Details

  • Interface

    • BitScope
      BitScope is a low cost data acquistion device configured as an RS-232 perhiperal.
      Details
    • Boondog
      Want to interface your PC and build your own robot?
      Details
    • CAN200
      This project gives you the hardware (well, not really.
      Details
    • Ethernet MAC Core
      A full Verilog implementation of the 10/100 MBps Ethernet MAC level.
      Details
    • gTag
      gTAG is a project to build a USB-controller that talks JTAG (IEEE1149).
      Details
    • I2C controller core
      The OpenCores I2C Master Core provides an interface between a Wishbone Master and an I2C bus.
      Details
    • PCI Bus Resources
      PCI VHDL models and synthesis files
      Details
    • RS232 system controller
      Rs232_syscon is a synthesizeable soft core that allows debugging of peripherals connected to a Wishbone type of bus.
      Details
    • Simple UART
      This is a Simple Asynchronous Serial Controller in Verilog.
      Details
    • Single Slot PCM Interface
      Simple Verilog PCM interface, allowing interfacing to such popular devices as TI DSPs (via McBSP bus) in PCM mode.
      Details
    • USB 1.1 PHY
      Very simple Verilog USB 1:1 PHY.
      Details
    • USB 2.0 Function Core
      This is a Verilog USB 2.
      Details
    • Wishbone/PCI Bridge
      The PCI Bridge Soft Core is a complete, synthesizable RTL (Verilog) code that provides bridging between the PCI and a WISHBONE (System-on-Chip) bus.
      Details

  • Control

    • 80C535 Microcontroller Board
      This board is used in a home control system which is called Homebus.
      Details
    • Aeromation
      The 'Open Source Autopilot Computer' for Owner Built Aircraft.
      Details
    • Caraca
      CARACA is a home automation project based on a net of interconnected programmable circuits suited to perform different tasks like switch on/off appliances, decode commands from Ir remote control units, control thermostats, measure temperature and more.
      Details
    • DROPlus
      DROPlus is primarily a digital readout, just like you see used on mills and lathes in every machine shop in the world, but it's also more than that.
      Details
    • Homebrew Automation Project
      The Home Brew Home Automation Project will produce specifications for hobbyists to build and extend a complete control system with inexpensive and non-proprietary parts and protocols.
      Details
    • Linux In A Box
      The aim of the Linux in a Box (LIAB for short) project is to promote cheap and flexible microcontroller solutions by combining embedded processors with the Linux operating system.
      Details
    • ODDAS
      The Open Distributed Data Acquisition System (ODDAS) will be a distributed data acquisition/control system which can be put together at minimal cost and with a reasonable amount of effort.
      Details
    • OMNE
      The purpose of the Open Micromanufacturing and Nanomanufacturing Equipment (OMNE) project is to promote innovation in the design and use of manufacturing equipment for micro-scale and nano-scale products.
      Details
    • Toast
      Complete design files for the Toast ColdFire Controller Board.
      Details

  • Robotics

    • EYCar
      The EYCar is an autonomous car that navigates by a rotating laserbeam.
      Details
    • IR Proximity Detector
      A PIC-based modulated infrared proximity sensor with dual angled transmitters and single receiver.
      Details
    • Lego Robotics
      Designs based on the Lego Mindstorms product, a robot-kit-in-a-box.
      Details
    • Open Source Motor Control
      The OSMC is intended for robotic combat, but is suitable for any DC motor control application.
      Details
    • Proyecto Hardware Abierto
      A project started by the Spanish Microbotica company.
      Details

  • Audio

    • ELMP
      The purpose of this project is to create the hardware and software required to produce a stand-alone MP3 player for a home stereo system.
      Details
    • Nichols Communicator
      The Nichols Communicator is a device designed to give people who cannot speak a voice.
      Details
    • Ogg Vorbis on a Chip
      An implementation of an Ogg Vorbis audio decoder using a LEON processor, on an FPGA.
      Details
    • The MPFree Project
      MPFree is about open source hardware designs for builing a car MP3 player, showing how to hookup LCD and VFD displays and keypads.
      Details

  • Video

    • Closed-Caption Decoder
      This is a closed-caption decoder with serial output, based on a PIC16C71, an Ilantec EL4581C sync separator, and an LM393 dual comparator (for data slicing with automatic threshold).
      Details
    • DVE
      The Digital Video Encoder (DVE) is the first open-source broadcast quality video encoder, suitable for multimedia or video applications.
      Details
    • LML33
      Linux Media Labs LLC is manufacturing and marketing a video capture card LML33 specifically for the GNU/Linux market.
      Details
    • Manticore
      Manticore is an open source hardware design for a 3D graphics accelerator.
      Details
    • VGA/LCD Controller
      The OpenCores VGA/LCD Controller core is a WISHBONE rev B2 compliant embedded VGA core in Verilog and VHDL capable of driving CRT and LCD displays.
      Details

  • DSP

    • Blowfishvhdl
      An implementation of the Blowfish cryptographic algorithm targetted to a Xilinx XCV1000 FPGA using Synplify and the Xilinx map/place/route tools.
      Details
    • CORDIC core
      A VHDL implementation of the CORDIC algorithm for computing functions such as sine, cosine, and arctangent using only elementary operators such as shifts, adds/subtracts, and compares.
      Details
    • DES core
      Two verilog implementations of the DES encryption algorithm, one optimized for area, the other pipelined for higher performance.
      Details
    • Pg99
      A student team at the University of Stuttgart has developed a set of chips for use in Cryptography, including RSA, DES, and control functions.
      Details
    • Pipelined DES
      This is a VDHL implementation of a pipelined DES encryption system.
      Details
    • Rijndael core
      This is a highly optimized Rijndael encryption core designed by Nicholas Weaver, (nweaver@cs.
      Details

  • Radio

    • CemTach
      Our goal is to develop systems simulations capabilities based on time-domain computational electromagnetics methods.
      Details
    • Guerrilla.net
      An attempt to create an Internet-independent network based on amateur radio, with the twin aims of strong privacy (through encryption) and freedom from commercial ISPs.
      Details
    • Homebrew QRP TRX
      Our group is currently developing a RF transceiver for portable use.
      Details
    • PCISCC-4
      PCISCC-4 is a medium-speed four-port PCI compatible SCC (Serial Communication Controller) plugin card for connection of synchronous serial network devices, typically ham-radio modems.
      Details
    • Project BAMBI
      The design, construction, and initial observational results of a 4 GHz amateur radio telescope are described in this first report from Project BAMBI (Bob And Mike's Big Investment).
      Details
    • Weersatellietontvangst
      A simple to build decoder for weather satellites transmitting HRPT, CHRPT and HRI (PDUS), based on two FPGAs (Lucent or Xilinx 3042).
      Details
    • Wireless Network How-To
      A complete how-to covering the design and building of a low cost wireless network in the 2.
      Details
    • Wireless-open
      An 8052-based wireless LAN card.
      Details
    • Yet Another 9k6 Modem
      The modem is capable of 9600 bit/s operations and interfaces directly to the PC serial port from which it is also powered.
      Details

  • Telecoms

    • 8b10b encoder/decoder
      A Verilog 8b10b encoder and decoder, complete with testbench.
      Details
    • Alltel
      Alltel is a piece of hardware which allows its user to monitor the phone line in several ways not supported by normal modems.
      Details
    • fractional-N divider generator
      Perl script to write VHDL and Verilog to implement a fractional-N fixed frequency divider.
      Details
    • ITU-T G.711 core
      VHDL implentations of the standard A-Law and u-Law speech codecs.
      Details
    • reed solomon codec
      A fully synthesizable (255,247) Reed-Solomon Codec in verilog format.
      Details
    • uWebserver
      Microwebserver project with schematics and pcb layouts.
      Details
    • WWWpic2
      WWWpic2 is a web server for a Microchip PIC 16F84.
      Details

  • Other

    • FIFO buffer
      The First-In First-Out memory buffer design is targeted to Xilinx FPGA XC400 family.
      Details
    • FPGA-based Logic Analyzer
      This is a 32-channel logic analyzer based on an Altera FPGA.
      Details
    • FPGA-evb-S2
      FPGA-evb-S2 is a low cost Xilinx Spartan-II FPGA evaluation platform.
      Details
    • MGuide
      This is a design for a genetic microarray production system; it isn't directly an electronics-related entry: see the O.
      Details
    • MhProgrammer
      MhProgrammer is a free alternative to expensive and limited IC programming devices.
      Details
    • MPGA
      This is an open source design for an FPGA to be implemented on an FPGA; a meta-FPGA (hence the name).
      Details
    • Oscar
      A project to develop an open-source car.
      Details
    • PAM-Blox
      PAM-Blox is a free/open repository of object-oriented circuit generators for Xilinx XC4000 FPGAs targeted at high-performance adaptive computing.
      Details
    • Prototype board
      This board is going to be simple and generic board for prototyping digital designs.
      Details
    • SOC Development Platform
      SOC- Development Platform - This project aims to develop a low cost PLD platform for learning about PLDs and testing some of the open source and other IP cores.
      Details
    • SOCPLAT1
      This project aims to develop a low cost PLD platform for learning about PLDs and testing some of the open source and other IP cores.
      Details
    • STM
      This site describes my ongoing efforts to home-build a Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM).
      Details
    • STM
      The goal of this project is to build a simple Scanning Tunneling Microscope that can resolve atoms, with a cost of materials less than $100.
      Details
    • Synthesizable 8051
      A VHDL synthesizable model (for Synopsis) of the 8051 and a C++ based 8051 instruction-set simulator, together with a tuning environment, to assist a designer who wants to modify the 8051 architecture to be more power efficient for a particular program You see, a particular 8051 will probably execute the same program over and over for its lifetime, so it would be nice to orient the 8051 towards that program.
      Details
    • XOscope
      Xoscope (or oscope) is a digital oscilloscope using input from a sound card and/or a ProbeScope/osziFOX.
      Details

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  Community

  • Boondog
    Want to interface your PC and build your own robot?
    Details
  • Free Computers
    The most common failed search request in the database is for 'free computers'.
    Details
  • FreeIO.org
    FreeIO is a website dedicated to the cooperative development of free hardware designs, and drivers for them.
    Details
  • gEDAbr
    A Brazilian portal site for everything related to gEDA and PCB.
    Details
  • Linux Hardware
    The goal of this site is to provide a place where Linux users can submit information about their systems or the performance of specific pieces of hardware under Linux.
    Details
  • MSX Core Club
    Non-profit organization started its activities in july of 1993 with the following objectives: - To develop software and hardware - To organize meetings and join expositions - To create and to translate documentations, manuals and courses - To solve games, making routes, cheats and maps - To keep a collection of software, books, magazines and schematics
    Details
  • OC News Pages
    I've just realised that many users of the database may not know about the OC news pages - many links to this site point here directly, bypassing the front page.
    Details
  • Open PPC
    The immediate goal of the project is to enable interested parties to build inexpensive, PPC-based Linux boxes from IBM's reference plans.
    Details
  • Open Source for Open Telecom
    This site is devoted to Open Source (tm) software for computer telephony, specifically focusing on hot-swap and circuit switching capabilities for systems built with CompactPCI and the H.
    Details
  • openH.org
    openH.
    Details
  • OpenHardware.net
    This site is devoted to people who wish to share their embedded system designs with others.
    Details
  • OpenIP organization
    This project is intended to define an openHardware license and provide hardware designers with many free open designs and ideas using free open design tools.
    Details
  • OpenTech CDROM
    The aim of this project is to compile open hardware designs and free design tools and put them in a single distribution CDROM to be available for all hardware designers.
    Details
  • Otherpower.com
    OtherPower.
    Details
  • Spindletop
    Spindletop is in the process of becoming the first (and only) GNU Cooperative, s upporting the hardware needs of end-users of free software such as GNU/Linux.
    Details

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