ICALEPCS 2013 pre-conference Open Hardware Workshop
After the success of the 2011 workshop, this one will take place in San Francisco or Berkeley (precise venue to be defined) on Sunday 6 October 2013. Please subscribe to the mailing list if you want to participate in the discussions about the organization of the workshop or just be kept up to date.
For the time being, this is just a placeholder for ideas for the workshop.
Session 1: Intro and Legal Aspects
- A general intro talk. OH concepts, the current state of affairs, etc.
- A talk by the CERN Knowledge Transfer people.
- A talk by the LBNL legal or Tech Transfer people.
- A talk by Bruce Perens. It could be about legal aspects, but also about what OH can learn from FOSS in general. He could also talk about Open Hardware for wireless communications.
Session 2: Business models and experience with commercial companies
- Contact companies so they can give their view.
- CERN's experience with companies.
- LNLS's experience with companies.
Session 3: Tools
- A talk from Soleil about one recent development of a PCB they decided to do in Kicad. It would be about the strengths and weaknesses of the tool.
- A talk about Kicad status and future prospects.
- A talk about Icarus Verilog use in LBNL.
- A talk about Icarus Verilog status and future prospects (Steve)
- CERN might be ready with a talk about a tool to create HDL filters automatically (libre-fda-tool).
- Migen (maybe combined with the libre-fda-tool talk).
- A talk about ngspice and its use in conjunction with scripts.
- Maybe a GEDA talk?
- VPCIE, an open source PCIe device virtualization framework developed at the ESRF.
Daniel:
- Some kind of more structured "round table" where we could explicitly see the open and key points of OH and discuss them. Maybe we could define a set of fundamental questions and propose them to the audience.
- Set a permanent and unified space to discuss any kind of Controls HW for Physics/Large Experiments subjects. Conferences are great to put people together, expose latest advances and promote discussions, but these roles could be complemented by a virtual counterpart where the discussions can be tracked by anyone anywhere at any time in the future. The workshop videos could be put online and open for comments so as to give a broader reach to the talks.
Steve:
- I think we might want to carve out a little time at the end of the Tools session for unstructured interaction between the tool authors (those that are present) and users, current and potential.
Javier:
- We could reserve some time to discuss funding models for FOSS tools for HW development.
Files
- restaurants.pdf
- oh_intro.pdf
- migen_icalepcs.pdf
- OpenPET--_A_Flexible_Open_Source_Electronics_System_20131004.pptx
- ICALEPCS_2013_Libre-FDATool.pdf
- icalepcs_kicad.pdf
- ICALECPS_2013_Icarus_Verilog.pdf
- vpcie.pdf
- 2013_10_06_ICALEPCS_OHW.pptx
- presentation_kt.mp3
- LNLSs_experience_with_Open_Hardware.pdf
- soleil.pdf
- TAPR_Open_Hardware_License__10-2013.odp
- Ackermann_OHL_Presentation_10-2013.mp4
- oh_cern_talk.pdf