Tag: FOSS

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EDeA Project Aims to Make Sharing, Using KiCad “Subcircuits” as Easy as Possible

KiCad users may soon be able to easily share, download, and assemble subcircuits into open-hardware projects thanks to a new initiative dubbed EdeA. “There is a growing Open Hardware movement, a diverse bunch of people with intimidating skill levels, and they are reimplementing the wheel over and over,” explains pseudonymous… Read More

QuickLogic Launches QuickFeather Fully-Open FPGA Dev Board Crowdfunder

QuickLogic has officially launched the a crowdfunding campaign for the QuickFeather, a Feather-compatible fully-open microcontroller and field-programmable gate array (FPGA) development board – and AB Open is proud to be its first backer. The QuickFeather – named for its use of the Feather form factor, a gumstick variant designed for… Read More

CRU: Ten Years of OSHUG, OpenHW Group Membership, RISC-V Trace, and More

Last month marks the tenth anniversary of the inaugural meeting of the Open Source Hardware User Group (OSHUG). AB Open’s Andrew Back recalls the founding of OSHUG: “The nascent open hardware movement had started to gather momentum and in December 2009, Nesta, the UK based charity and innovation… Read More

The Eclipse Foundation Announces a Move to Europe to Boost Growth

The Eclipse Foundation, which acts as a not-for-profit steward of the Eclipse open source software development community working on projects as diverse as edge computing, artificial intelligence, and free and open source silicon, has announced it is moving to Europe – a move which it says will enable it to… Read More

CRU: RISC-V for Beginners, Sensors, and Browsers, MIPS Open Closes, and More

Bootlin’s Michael Opdenacker has published a guide to getting started with embedded Linux on RISC-V in just 40 minutes, as part of a presentation given during the Capitole du Libre 2019 event earlier this month. Building on a presentation first given at the Libre Software Meeting 2005, in which… Read More

KiCad Open-Source EDA Project Joins The Linux Foundation, CommunityBridge

The KiCad electronic design automation (EDA) project has officially joined the Linux Foundation, a move which its maintainers say will allow it to grow its community and ensure the long-term stability of the project. “KiCad is a set of applications used by engineers focused on board design,” explains Michael Dolan,… Read More

Workshop on Open Source Design Automation (OSDA) 2020 Opens Call for Participation

The Workshop on Open Source Design Automation (OSDA), now on its second year, has announced a call for contributions with a deadline of the 12th of January 2020 – and is, as with the year before, taking place at the Conference on Design, Automation, and Test in Europe (DATE). “There… Read More

Bootlin’s Michael Opdenacker Gets You Started with Embedded Linux on RISC-V in Just 40 Minutes

European Commission Publishes Final Open Source Beyond 2020 Agenda

The European Commission is to host the Open Source Beyond 2020 workshop on the future of open source hardware and software next week, featuring a panel on the advent of open source hardware and the Internet of Things chaired by the head of the Competitive Electronics Industry DG Connect A3… Read More

CRU: Next-Gen Wishbone, FOSSi Events, and FOSSi Hits the Cloud

The maintainers of the Wishbone interconnect specification are calling for input on its future evolution, after converting the specification into an editor-friendly format for ease of participation. Offering eight, 16, 32, and 64 bit widths and originally created by the Silicore Corporation before being released under a permissive licence, the… Read More

Open-Source MicroPlatform Provider Foundries.io Raises £2.7 million

Cambridge-based Foundries.io has announced £2.7 million in funding, with which it plans to accelerate its roll-out of Internet of Things (IoT) maintenance and update platform FoundriesFactory. Founded in 2017, Foundries.io launched after a stealth period of just under two years with the announcement of Linux and Zephyr real-time operating… Read More

FOSDEM 2020 RISC-V Devroom Opens Call for Participation

The organisers of the RISC-V Devroom at the FOSDEM 2020 conference, taking place in Brussels this coming February, have opened the call for talk proposals. “FOSDEM 2020 will take place on February 1-2, 2020 in Brussels, Belgium. There will be a half day RISC-V developer’s room on February 1st (Saturday),”… Read More