{"id":10726,"date":"2021-05-21T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/?p=10726"},"modified":"2021-02-05T11:22:11","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T19:22:11","slug":"open-hardware-open-source-sharing-of-hardware-specifications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/open-hardware-open-source-sharing-of-hardware-specifications\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Hardware: Open-Source Sharing of Hardware Specifications"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The success of Open Source software is leading many to wonder whether a similar model would work with hardware.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Open hardware<\/a>” or “open source hardware” are design and manufacturing specification that are available publicly for study, modification, and manufacturing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The most well-known open hardware project is project for the specification of RISC architecture. RISC was first developed at the University of California at Berkeley in the 1980’s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

RISC-V is an open standard instruction set architecture (ISA) based on established reduced instruction set computer (RISC) principles. Calista Redmond<\/a>, chief executive of the RISC-V Foundation, said that<\/a> “with more than 420 organizations, individuals and universities that are members of the RISC-V Foundation, there is a really vibrant community collaborating together to drive the progression of ratified specs, compliance suites and other technical deliverables for the RISC-V ecosystem. While RISC-V has a BSD open source license, designers are welcome to develop proprietary implementations for commercial use as they see fit. RISC-V offers a variety of commercial benefits, enabling companies to accelerate development time while also reducing strategic risk and overall costs.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ted Marena<\/a>, RISC-V ecosystem director for Western Digital, said that<\/a> “open-source collaboration is well-advanced in the software world, and Linux has demonstrated the power behind that movement. I believe that hardware will start to ride a similar wave, and you\u2019ll see organizations start sharing. They may not share everything, but as they incrementally offer up more and more solutions into the ecosystem, there\u2019s going to be a broader benefit.”<\/p>\n

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The success of Open Source software is leading many to wonder whether a similar model would work with hardware. “Open hardware” or “open source hardware” are design and manufacturing specification that are available publicly for study, modification, and manufacturing. The…<\/span><\/p>\n

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