Tag: EDA

Wave Computing has announced the MIPS Open initiative, under which it plans to make the instruction set architecture (ISA) available free of charge with no licensing or royalty payments required – a clear response to the growing popularity of the open RISC-V ISA. Wave Computing, which acquired MIPS from Imagination… Read More

An initial programme for ORConf 2018, the open-source digital design conference to be held in Gdansk, Poland this September, has been published – and there are some big names showing off the state of the art on the schedule. While there are more speakers yet to be announced, the initial… Read More

Popular open-source electronic design automation (EDA) package KiCad has hit its milestone 5.0.0 release, described by the team as “a new generation” of the software. “Almost a year after the release of KiCad 4.0.7, the KiCad development team is proud to present a new and improved KiCad 5.0 release,” the… Read More

Parts supplier Digi-Key has announced its support for the open-source KiCad printed circuit board (PCB) and schematic design tool with the release of 1,000 common parts in a permissively-licensed library. “With more restrictive licensing or licenses that don’t align with some of our customers’ needs, some users are looking to… Read More