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• Computers: Hardware: Standards  (42)
• Computers: Open Source  (724)

Opencores.org     www.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  www.ap-systems.co.uk Embedded system based on ATMEL AT91M40800 processor and Network Card based on Crystal CS8900A.

Art Interface Device  www.interaccess.org/aid/schedule.html The Art Interface Device (AID) is a microprocessor platform for building electronic installation art. It can also be used as an interface between such artworks and computers. It will enable the artworks to respond to people and the physical environment.

Bootloader for Microchip PIC USB Microcontroller  www.diolan.com/pic/bootloader.html Bootloader updates firmware through HID interface – use of generic Windows drivers. XTEA encryption for firmware protection.

Bug Labs  www.buglabs.net 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  researchweb.watson.ibm.com/daisy Goals: make VLIW and other novel ILP architectures fully compatible with common extant architectures such as PowerPC, x86, S/390, and Java Virtual Machine.

Ethernut  www.ethernut.de Embedded Ethernet board equipped with an Atmel ATmega128 CPU and a Realtek RTL8019AS or LAN91C111 Ethernet controller.

Manticore  icculus.org/manticore Was "The HULK"; hardware design for a 3D graphics accelerator, written fully in VHDL. Open source.

Midi for the Pilot  www.physicalbits.com/Pilot/PilotMidi.htm How to build a midi interface for the palm pilot.

Open Graphics Project: OGP  wiki.opengraphics.org Goals: design an open source hardware, architecture and standard for graphics cards, mainly for open source software and operating systems.

OpenCollector Database  opencollector.org Site has a searchable index of many designs, tools and manufacturers.

Ronja (Reasonable Optical Near Joint Access)  ronja.twibright.com Optical point-to-point data link.

SystemC  www.systemc.org Broadly supported C++ open source language and simulation kernel for modeling and implementing electronic systems.

USB Audio Streamer  www.raccoonrezcats.com/soundcard.html Microchip PIC based USB sound card, driven by interrupts instead of polling. Open source.

Writings on Open Source Hardware  opencollector.org/Whyfree 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  www.raiden.net/?aid=315 Brief analysis of some benefits, problems, and means. Raiden's Realm. (October 8, 2007)

Open Source Hardware: Birth of a Long Tail Market?  itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3700366 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  features.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=1999-06-22-005-05-NW-LF Stallman's views, definition, problems. Linux Today. (June 22, 1999)