Jamil Khatib, OpenCores org, OpenIPCore org

OpenIPCore & OpenCores Projects

1  OpenIPCore Project

• Formed in early 1999 by a group of engineers
  as a result of many activities and hardware projects done by engineers all over the world communicating through the Internet.

• It is part of OpenIP Organization
  which has different projects like OpenOS, OpenWeb, OpenSW and OpenIPCore which is the only hardware related project.

• Formed to define OpenHW concepts and objectives
  HW designers do not know the OpenHW concept. They even have many problems that prevents them from following this approach. OIPC formed to define OpenHW concepts and to find all kinds of problems and solutions of OpenHW designs.
  

  Our objectives are:

• OpenHW definition.
  Will be discussed later on.

• OpenHW license and protection schemes
  

  License is an important factor for designers to protect their OpenHW designs which is not the same as open source software because HW includes physical implementation. We suggested different licenses like GNU ``GPL & LGPL'', Open Hardware General Public License ``OHGPL'' & OpenNDA. The licenses have to deal with the design and implementation protection.

• OpenHW design methodology
  We are working on several projects that will help OpenHW designers. Some of these projects are OpenCores interfaces, documentation standards, coding styles, re-usability and design indexing.

• OpenHW business models
  OpenHW will have new impact on the current business models. We have suggestions for such models like Design distribution, Implementation support and PLD industry..

2  OpenCores Project

• Formed in late 1999 by a group of engineers
• Formed to design hardware cores and systems.

• Provides Some services for OpenHW designers.
  Like web pages, mailing list and CVS access

• OR1K cpu, UART, set of FIR filters, Memory Cores, ECC cores, Bus controllers, Video Controllers, Prototype boards.

• OpenCores and OpenIPCore has merged to get more power

3  What is OpenHW?

• Availability of hardware design.
  All design files should be available for free

• Availability of Software interfaces
  All drivers, compilers, instruction set and register interfaces etc ...

• Availability of Documentation
  Application notes, tips, notes and all information

• Visit http://www.opencores.org/OIPC/def.shtml for more information about OpenHW definition.

4  OpenTech CDROM

• The first OpenHW design and tools distribution CDROM published in 1st June 2000.
  The CD will help all kind of engineers ``students, R&D, managers ...'' because it give them every thing they need in a single place.

• Compiles different kind of OpenHW designs in one place
  System Boards, prototyping boards, cpu cores, models, memory cores communication cores etc ...

• Compiles open source EDA tools for different design flows.
  Design Entry, Simulation, Verilog, VHDL, FPGA, board, PIC and manufacturing tools

• It will push towards better HW designs and powerful EDA tools.
  Because engineers can find designs and documentation easily they can improve them or use them in new projects where all bugs will be fixed and new features will be added.

• For more information visit http://www.opencores.org/OIPC/projects/cdrom.shtml
  You can get the latest contents from http://www.opencores.org/OIPC/projects/contents.txt

5  More information

• OpenCores http://www.opencores.org
• OpenIPCore http://www.opencores/OIPC/
• Contact Jamil Khatib khatib@opencores.org