See also:

• Computers: Hardware: Standards  (54)
• Computers: Open Source  (738)
• Computers: Programming: Disassemblers: SPARC  (2)

Opencores.org -  .

- Seeks to design and publish core designs under a license for hardware modelled on the Lesser General Public License (LGPL) for software.

Art Interface Device - - 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.

DAISY - - Aims to make VLIW and other novel ILP architectures hundred percent compatible with popular existing architectures such as PowerPC, x86, and S/390, as well as the Java Virtual Machine.

Ethernut - - Open Source embedded Ethernet Board combining and ATmega 128 with Realteks RTL8019AS.

Free Model Foundry - - Advancing standard modeling practices within the electrical engineering community. Supporting the use of VHDL, Verilog, and IBIS modeling languages.

Hamburg VHDL Archive - - Provides a collection of free, public-domain or shareware, VHDL documentation, models, and tools.

Manticore - - Formerly called "The HULK", Manticore is an open source hardware design for a 3D graphics accelerator. It is written entirely in VHDL.

Microcontroller: VHDL: PIC 16C5X - - One stable version, and another one under development.

Open Source Hardware - - Industry analysis paper for a college course proposing a business to apply the Open Source model to hardware.

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

PalmBot - - A site that documents what you need to build your Palm based robot.

The PalmOS Open Source Portal - - Provides a database of links to Palm based open source hardware projects, such as memory cards and sensors.

SCEZ - Smart Card Library - - Smart Card Library with documentation on hardware modifications to run that cards on a palm.

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

ThinkCycle: Open Collaborative Design - - Non-profit initiative that supports open source development and hosts a public repository of engineering design innovations in critical problem domains, such as low-power devices and portable health-care solutions for rural settings.

Writings on Open Source Hardware - - A collection of links to writings on themes related to Open Source Hardware like definitions, libraries, talks and conferences.

Linux Today - - Richard Stallman's thoughts on free hardware. (June 22, 1999)