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• Opencores.org - Seeks to design and publish core designs under a license for hardware modelled on the Lesser General Public License (LGPL) for software.

  ARM Developments Embedded system based on ATMEL AT91M40800 processor and Network Card based on Crystal CS8900A. http://www.ap-systems.co.uk/

  Bug Labs Develops BUG: modular software and hardware platform, web-enabled, set of pre-matched components: color screen, camera (video enabled), GPS, accelerometer; snap together, no soldering. Open source. http://www.buglabs.net/

  DAISY: Dynamically Architected Instruction Set from Yorktown Goals: make VLIW and other novel ILP architectures fully compatible with common extant architectures such as PowerPC, x86, S/390, and Java Virtual Machine. http://researchweb.watson.ibm.com/daisy/

  Elphel, Inc. A project working on cameras and imaging solutions with Free software and open hardware. Contains a list of products along with their prices and documentation. http://www3.elphel.com/

  Ethernut Several open source reference designs, based on 8-bit AVR, ARM7 and ARM9. All schematics and the CAD data are published as open source hardware. http://www.ethernut.de/

  Manticore Was "The HULK"; hardware design for a 3D graphics accelerator, written fully in VHDL. Open source. http://icculus.org/manticore/

  Open Graphics Project: OGP Goals: design an open source hardware, architecture and standard for graphics cards, mainly for open source software and operating systems. http://wiki.opengraphics.org/

  Open Programmer Free USB programmer for PIC micros, I2C EEPROMs and other devices. Control applications for Windows and GNU/Linux are provided along with their source code. http://openprog.altervista.org/

  OpenCollector Database Site has a searchable index of many designs, tools and manufacturers. http://opencollector.org/

  PIC USB Prototype Development Board Prototype development boards based on PIC18LF4455 microcontroller with open source bootloader and schematics. http://www.diolan.com/pic/demoboard.html

  Ronja (Reasonable Optical Near Joint Access) Optical point-to-point data link. http://ronja.twibright.com/

  SystemC Broadly supported C++ open source language and simulation kernel for modeling and implementing electronic systems. http://www.systemc.org/

  Writings on Open Source Hardware A collection of links to writings on themes related to Open Source Hardware like definitions, libraries, talks and conferences. http://opencollector.org/Whyfree/

  The Future of Hardware is Open Source Brief analysis of some benefits, problems, and means. Raiden's Realm. (October 8, 2007) http://www.raiden.net/?aid=315

  Open Source Hardware: Birth of a Long Tail Market? Asks what if creating computer hardware became as individualized, as free from corporate control, as open source software, with future scenario where this occurs. (September 19, 2007) http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3700366

  Richard Stallman: On Free Hardware Stallman's views, definition, problems. Linux Today. (June 22, 1999) http://features.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=1999-06-22-005-05-NW-LF