Opencores.org
- Seeks to design and publish core designs under a license for hardware modelled on the Lesser General Public License (LGPL) for software.
- http://www.opencores.org/
Open Graphics Project: OGP - Goals: design an open source hardware, architecture and standard for graphics cards, mainly for open source software and operating systems. - http://wiki.duskglow.com/tiki-index.php?page=Open-Graphics
Richard Stallman: On Free Hardware - Stallman's views, definition, problems. Linux Today. - http://features.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=1999-06-22-005-05-NW-LF
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. - http://researchweb.watson.ibm.com/daisy/
Bootloader for Microchip PIC USB Microcontroller - Bootloader updates firmware through HID interface – use of generic Windows drivers. XTEA encryption for firmware protection. - http://www.diolan.com/pic/bootloader.html
ARM Developments - Embedded system based on ATMEL AT91M40800 processor and Network Card based on Crystal CS8900A. - http://www.ap-systems.co.uk/
Midi for the Pilot - How to build a midi interface for the palm pilot. - http://www.physicalbits.com/Pilot/PilotMidi.htm
Manticore - Formerly called "The HULK", Manticore is an open source hardware design for a 3D graphics accelerator. It is written entirely in VHDL. - http://icculus.org/manticore/
Ethernut - Embedded Ethernet board equipped with an Atmel ATmega128 CPU and a Realtek RTL8019AS or LAN91C111 Ethernet controller. - http://www.ethernut.de/
PalmBot - A site that documents what you need to build your Palm based robot. - http://www.mbhs.edu/~josborn/palmbot/intro.html
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 - http://www.interaccess.org/aid/schedule.html
Writings on Open Source Hardware - A collection of links to writings on themes related to Open Source Hardware like definitions, libraries, talks and conferences. - http://opencollector.org/Whyfree/
OpenCollector Database - Site has a searchable index of many designs, tools and manufacturers. - http://opencollector.org/
SystemC - Broadly supported C++ open source language and simulation kernel for modeling and implementing electronic systems. - http://www.systemc.org/
Hamburg VHDL Archive - Provides a collection of free, public-domain or shareware, VHDL documentation, models, and tools. - http://tech-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/vhdl/