The Open Hardware Consultancy.

Who are AB Open?

AB Open is an open source and technical communities consultancy that specialises in embedded and wireless systems.

Our clients include semiconductor companies, component distributors, equipment vendors and service providers.

We provide a range of services, that includes:

Open source consulting
Community management
Special projects

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Wuthering Bytes and OSHCamp Dates Confirmed, as the Call for Participation Opens

The dates for this year’s Wuthering Bytes festival and the Open Source Hardware Camp (OSHCamp) have been announced, with a call for participation now open. This year the Wuthering Bytes festival will be taking place in Hebden Bridge from Friday the 23rd to Saturday the 31st of August… Read More

Wuthering Bytes 2023 First Speakers Confirmed

Confirmed speakers include Matthew Venn, a science and technology communicator and electronic engineer, who will be delivering a talk on how to design your own open source microchips. Also joining the line-up is composer, electronic artist and robotic instrument maker Sarah Angliss who will be exploring the life and legacy of Daphne Oram. Read More

Wuthering Bytes Returns for its 10-Year Anniversary, and We’d Love You to be Involved

AB Open is proud to announce the return of Wuthering Bytes, the three-day festival celebrating interesting and inspiring technology now celebrating its 10-year anniversary – and we’re looking for participants to run events or give presentations. After global and local conditions caused a three-year hiatus, AB Open is now… Read More

Efabless’ CLEAR, a Fully-Open RISC-V ASIC Built on chipIgnite, Nears its Goal with Days to Go

CLEAR, a fully-open development board built around a RISC-V embedded-FPGA application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) designed by Efabless as a showcase of what its chipIgnite platform can offer, is entering the last days of its crowdfunding campaign with just a handful of boards left to reach its goal. “CLEAR is an… Read More

Ten Reasons to use SiliconCompiler – Including SPDX Provenance Support

Zero ASIC’s chief executive Andreas Olofsson has called for “all chip designers” to try out the open-source SiliconCompiler build system, showcasing his top ten reasons for giving it a go – including a provenance feature which supports the Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) standard. “We have been working hard on… Read More

Chip floorplan example, courtesy Mirhoseini et al.

Google Research Releases Circuit Training, an Open-Source Framework for Automated Chip Floorplanning

Google Research has released the source code for a chip floor-plan generate based on deep reinforcement learning – after publishing a paper demonstrating how effective the approach could be in April last year. “Chip floorplanning is the engineering task of designing the physical layout of a computer chip,” the research… Read More

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