OpenCores is a community developing digital open-source hardware through electronic design automation (EDA), with a similar ethos to the free software movement. OpenCores hopes to eliminate redundant design work and significantly reduce development costs. A number of companies have been reported as adopting OpenCores IP in chips,[1][2] or as adjuncts to EDA tools.[3][4] OpenCores is also sometimes cited as an example of open source in the electronics hardware community.[5]
OpenCores has always been a commercially owned organization. In 2015, its core active users established the independent Free and Open Source Silicon Foundation (FOSSi Foundation), and created another directory on the librecores.org[6] website as the basis for all future development, independent of commercial control. It has been shut down to redirect to a post on the FOSSi Foundation website seven years later in favor of a simple web search, reasoning that "free and open source silicon is no longer a dream".[7]
- ^ Andrew Orlowski, "Flextronics demos open source chips", The Register, 12 December 2003, [1]
- ^ Rick Merritt, "Vivace plans to release HD media processors", EE Times India (online edition), 20 April 2006 [2] Archived 7 January 2015 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Dylan McGrath, "Firm packages OpenCores IP with EDA tool", EE Times (online edition), 9 January 2006 [3]
- ^ "OVP Simulator Smashes SystemC TLM-2.0 Performance Barrier", EDA Cafe, 5 February 2009 [4]
- ^ Richard Goering, "Doors 'open' to hardware", EE Times (online edition), 6 June 2005 [5]
- ^ librecores.org
- ^ Philipp Wagner, "Mission accomplished! LibreCores is closing down", 19 October 2022 [6]