ICLC_2003 Bologna 21-22/11/03

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SECTION 4
FREE HARDWARE
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DEFINITIONS
Free Hardware Design a design which can be
freely copied, distributed, modified and
transformed into chips. Open Source Hardware
the whole information relative to the design is
available, but with some restrictions. Open
Hardware a trademark of Open Hardware
Specification Program. The design documents
must make it possible to produce a
chip compatible with the considered system, but
some details relative To hardware and firmware
are not available.
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THE REASONS OF EXPLOSION OF F.H.D.
1. The scale of new I.C.'s and S.O.C.'s Some
libraries such as OpenCores are now available.
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THE REASONS OF EXPLOSION OF F.H.D.
2. A complete circuit, not only a processor, can
be contained in a chip, by virtue of the progress
of FPGA's.
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THE REASONS OF EXPLOSION OF F.H.D.
3. The explosion of the market of embedded
systems. Examples Lart, with CPU StrongArm e
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