Open-source computing hardware
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Open-source computing hardware comprises computers and computer components with an open design. They are designed as open-source hardware using open-source principles.
Computers[edit]
Single-board computers[edit]
ARM (32-bit)[edit]
- Banana Pi, Allwinner A20-based ARM board made in China
- Beagle Board, uses low-power Texas Instruments processors with an ARM Cortex-A8 core; runs Angstrom Linux
- IGEPv2, an ARM OMAP 3-based board designed and manufactured by ISEE in Spain. Its expansion boards are also open-source.
- OLinuXino, designed with KiCAD by OLIMEX Ltd in Bulgaria[1]
- Panda Board, a variation of the Beagle Board
- Rascal, an ARM based Linux board that works with Arduino shields, with a web server that includes an editor for users to program it in Python. Hardware design files released under the Creative Commons BY-SA license.
Motorola 68000 series[edit]
- Minimig – a re-implementation of an Amiga 500 using a field-programmable gate array (FPGA).
National Semiconductor NS320xx series[edit]
- PC532, a personal computer design released in 1990, based on the NS32532 microprocessor
Notebook computers[edit]
- Novena, a notebook computer that uses a 1.2 GHz quad-core Freescale processor closely coupled with a Xilinx FPGA[2][3][4][5]
- VIA OpenBook, a netbook case design released by VIA Technologies
Handhelds, palmtops, and smartphones[edit]
- Ben NanoNote, a palmtop PC based on the MIPS architecture
- Openmoko, a smartphone containing a single-board computer equipped with a GSM/UMTS modem
- Simputer, a handheld computer released in 2002
Components[edit]
- Ethernut, embedded Ethernet adapters
- IOIO, a board that allows Android applications to interface with external electronics
- PLAICE, a device that combines a flash memory programmer, in-circuit emulation, and a multichannel logic analyzer. It runs uClinux.
- Tinkerforge, a platform comprising stackable microcontrollers for interfacing with sensors and other I/O devices
- Twibrigh RONJA, a 10 Mbit/s full duplex FSO wireless optical network adapter from 2001[6]
CPUs[edit]
- Amber is an ARM-compatible 32-bit RISC processor. Amber implements the ARMv2 instruction set.
- LEON, a 32-bit, SPARC-like CPU created by the European Space Agency
- OpenSPARC, a series of open-source microprocessors based on the UltraSPARC T1 and UltraSPARC T2 multicore processor designs
- OpenPiton, a general-purpose, multithreaded manycore processor[7]
- ZPU, a small, portable CPU core with a GCC toolchain. It is designed to be compiled targeting FPGA[8]
- Zet (hardware), x86 implementation on programmable logic
Instruction sets[edit]
- RISC-V, a RISC ISA that originated in 2010 at the University of California, Berkeley
- J-Core, an implementation of the SuperH with some extensions[9][10]
Organisations[edit]
- Bug Labs, a US technology company that began by developing and selling open-source hardware peripherals for rapid prototyping of electronics
- M-Labs, developers of the Milkymist system on a chip
- Open Compute Project, an organization for sharing designs of data center products among companies
- Open Graphics Project, a project that aims to design a standard open architecture for graphics cards
- OpenCores, a loose community of designers that supports open-source cores (logic designs) for CPUs, peripherals and other devices. OpenCores maintains an open-source on-chip interconnection bus specification called Wishbone
- OpenRISC is a group of developers working to produce a very-high-performance open-source RISC CPU.
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Katherine Noyes. "Tiny $57 PC is like the Raspberry Pi, but faster and fully open". PCWorld. 2012.
- ^ "Novena". Crowd Supply.
- ^ "The Almost Completely Open Source Laptop Goes on Sale". Wired. 2 April 2014.
- ^ "Novena Helps Hackers Build Their Own Laptop".
- ^ Holbrook, Stett (April 2, 2014). "The World's First Open Source Laptop Makes Its Debut". Make. Retrieved 2017-03-12.
- ^ "Twibright Labs - Ronja".
- ^ Trader, Tiffany (25 August 2016). "Manycore 'Piton' Climbs Toward 200,000-Core Peak". HPCwire. Tabor Communications.
- ^ "ZPU - the worlds smallest 32 bit CPU with GCC toolchain :: Overview :: OpenCores".
- ^ "J-Core Open Processor". Retrieved Jun 19, 2016.
- ^ j-core Design Walkthrough (PDF). Embedded Linux Conference. San Diego. 6 April 2016. Retrieved Jun 19, 2016.
External links[edit]
- h-node, a hardware database compiled by the FSF to identify devices that work with a fully free operating system
