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29-06-2017: Open Doors for Universal Embedded Design

added by Erik van der Bij on 2017-07-03 14:14:31.664155

The article Open Doors for Universal Embedded Design in Embedded Systems Engineering, written by Caroline Hayes, Senior Editor, reads:

Charged with finding cost-effective integration for multicore platforms, the European Union’s (EU) Artemis EMC2 project finished at the end of May this year. A further initiative with CERN could mean the spirit of co-operation and the principles of open hardware herald an era of innovation.

and

This collaboration is a new initiative. The PC/104 Consortium will provide design-in examples of new and mature boards, with a reference design, for others to use and create something new. Although the Sundance board is the only [PC/104] product on the CERN Open Hardware Repository, there will be more news in the summer, promises Christensen. “My goal is to get five designs within the first year,” he says, and he is actively working to promote to PC/104 Consortium members that there is a place where they can download—and upload—reference designs which are PC/104-compatible.

Read the full article.

"High Energy Physics and Open Source engineering"

added by Erik van der Bij on 2016-12-02 17:15:18.599246

Andrea Borga from NIKHEF has presented High Energy Physics and Open Source engineering, accelerate shared knowledge at OSSHC 2016, the first edition of the yearly Open Source Software en Hardware Congres for the Benelux countries.

All the presentations (some in Dutch) can be found under the Tab Downloads.

"Open Hardware and Collaboration"

added by Erik van der Bij on 2016-10-25 10:24:02.118411

Javier Serrano will give a Keynote presentation at the PCaPAC conference.

Open Source Hardware (OSHW) follows the lead of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) and has similar goals: ensuring developers can share their work without artificial hurdles, improving quality through peer review, avoiding vendor lock-in and providing for a fair playground in which projects can thrive and accommodate contributions without compromising their long-term future. The talk will introduce OSHW and then attempt to answer a number of questions:
•What are the perceived benefits and issues of OSHW, in general and in the context of public research facilities?
•What is new with respect to FOSS?
•What makes OSHW projects succeed or fail?

The talk will use real examples of OSHW projects throughout, and will conclude with some thoughts about what the future holds in this domain.

The 11th International Workshop Personal Computers and Particle Accelerator Controls 2016 (PCaPAC) will be held by LNLS, in Campinas, Brazil. PCaPAC traditionally focuses on low-cost control systems using PC technology for control & data acquisition systems and emerging technologies.

25-06-2015: Work at CERN as electronics engineer?

added by Erik van der Bij on 2015-06-25 15:38:13.593924

Electronics engineering at its best in a challenging, unusual context?
Are you interested in working for the biggest accelerator complex in the world, taking responsibility for design, development and support of the hardware and HDL code of the control systems?
Would you like to play a key role in the planning and coordination of hardware manufacturing, in collaboration with industry?
Then, join the Hardware and Timing Section of CERN's Controls Group at CERN. Take Part!

Yes indeed, this is the place where the origin of https://www.ohwr.org is, where the CERN Open Hardware Licence has been developed, and where many successful Open Hardware designs have been designed.
Give it a try to start working with us!

Be fast to apply as the Closing date for applying is on 16 August 2015 already.
For more information: http://jobs.web.cern.ch/job/11459

8-6-2015: Open Business Lunch about OH

added by Erik van der Bij on 2015-06-08 17:39:00.523841

"Accélération de l’innovation et partage des savoirs grâce à l’open hardware"* is the title of the speech that Javier Serrano, co-author of the CERN Open Hardware License and creator of the Open Hardware Repository will give on 12 June at the Open Business Lunch in Lausanne.

*: "Accelerating innovation and knowledge sharing with open hardware"

24-03-15: OH at CERN

added by Erik van der Bij on 2015-03-24 12:08:38.204877

CERN Brochure: Open Hardware at CERN (pdf, 1MB)

CERN is actively making its knowledge and technology available
for the benefit of society and does so through a variety of different
mechanisms. Open hardware has in recent years established itself as
a very effective way for CERN to make electronics designs and in particular
printed circuit board layouts, accessible to anyone, while also
facilitating collaboration and design re-use. It is creating an impact on
many levels, from companies producing and selling products based on
hardware designed at CERN, to new projects being released under the
CERN Open Hardware Licence.

04-12-14: From Do-It-Yourself To Do-It-Together

added by Erik van der Bij on 2014-12-04 10:48:48.540836

"From Do-It-Yourself To Do-It-Together" is the title of the speech that Javier Serrano, co-author of the CERN Open Hardware License and creator of the Open Hardware Repository will give at TEDxPlaceDesNations.

You can see the live webcast on Wednesday 11 December 2014.

Update: recording available

From Do-It-Yourself to Do-It-Together, TEDxPlaceDesNations, Javier Serrano, Dec.2014

07-10-2013: Programmable Planet blogs about OHWR

added by Erik van der Bij on 2013-10-07 09:40:00.036254

William Murray writes about the ohwr.org site in his blog CERN's Open Hardware Project: Where White Rabbits Photomultiply.

Note that, unlike the blog states, the designs are not made with the Kicad tool.

07-10-2013: "How to create successful OH projects"

added by Erik van der Bij on 2013-10-07 09:25:21.511638

How to create successful open hardware projects - about White Rabbits and open fields (pdf) is a presentation describing the CERN Open Hardware projects and contains a very short introduction about the White Rabbit project. The main focus is on the five points that seem to be required to make an Open Hardware project successful.

It contains on page 15 a nice table of the eight CERN OH designs that found manufacturers and clients.

This slideshow was presented on 25 September at the Topical Workshop on Electronics for Particle Physics, Perugia, Italy, September 23-27, 2013. TWEPP2013

07-10-2013: OH workshop held in San Francisco

added by Erik van der Bij on 2013-10-07 09:05:18.205397

An Open Hardware workshop was held on 6 October just before the start of the ICALEPCS 2013 International Conference on Accelerator & Large Experimental Physics Control Systems.

Soon you'll be able to find the presentations at the workshop page.

26-03-2013: Open Hardware Development presentation

added by Erik van der Bij on 2013-02-26 11:40:50.158446

On 19 February Erik made for the electronics community at CERN the presentation Open Hardware Development.

While based on the presentation made at the Accelerator conference ICALEPCS, it has been expanded by the interesting sections "Experience with industry" and "Why does it seem to work?" that may be interesting to anyone who want to make the most out of Open Hardware.

31-01-2013: 100 projects on ohwr!

added by Erik van der Bij on 2013-01-31 14:20:30.860807

We have done some manual counting of statistics on the Open Hardware Repository.

There are 100 projects on ohwr:

52 hardware projects
39 HDL or Software projects
9 other projects

There are eleven instititutes leading the different projects:

CERN
Soleil
GSI
Brazillian Light Source
University of Bristrol
Warsaw University of Technology
University of Zurich
University of Pavia
Rockefeller University
University of Cape Town
Heidelberg University

And there are 16 commercial companies are involved who develop, produce and/or test open hardware products.

Exceptionally Hard & Soft Meeting 2012

added by Javier Serrano on 2012-11-21 17:45:48.112536

The Exceptionally Hard & Soft Meeting 2012 will take place in Berlin on December 28-30 2012. Evangelia Gousiou will present White Rabbit and the Open Hardware Repository.

27-06-2012: CERN Annual Report highlights OH initiative

added by Erik van der Bij on 2012-06-27 17:51:33.757455

CERN's President of Council writes in his message in the CERN Annual Report 2011:
"The launch of the Open Hardware Initiative follows other ‘open innovations’, such as the famous example of the web and open access in publishing."

In addition, the section Making an impact of CERN's Annual Report reads:
"In 2009, in the spirit of open science, electronics designers working in experimental-physics laboratories set up the Open Hardware Repository. The aim — to exchange knowledge across a wide community. Now the hardware design for more than 40 projects can be shared using the CERN Open Hardware Licence, published in 2011. The licence manages intellectual property by governing the use, copying, modification and distribution of hardware design documentation, and the manufacture and distribution of products."

22-05-2012: Brazil and China join ohwr.org

added by Erik van der Bij on 2012-05-22 10:48:55.170796

ohwr.org started with projects designed in Europe and soon it was followed by the RHINO project run in South Africa. Now also projects from Brazil and China are hosted on the site.

25-04-2012: Is open hardware creating a more open world?

added by Erik van der Bij on 2012-04-27 14:17:03.422135

The article Is open hardware creating a more open world? in iSGTW describes extensively OHWR, White Rabbit, RHINO, a commercial partner active on OHWR and many other aspects of Open Hardware projects. iSGTW is an international weekly online publication that covers distributed computing and the research it enables.

23-01-2012: Creotech produces 4 CERN OHR designs

added by Erik van der Bij on 2012-01-23 16:12:38.406444

The Polish company Creotech, that was already involved in the design of the SPEC PCIexpress FMC carrier, has decided to commercialise three Open Hardware designs that were initiated by CERN: SPEC, FMC ADC 100M 14b 4cha, the FMC DEL 1ns 4cha and the FMC DIO 5ch TTL a.
The same company has also created modified versions of the CERN's SPEC board for dedicated applications of its clients. These designs will soon be published on the ohr site as Open Hardware designs.

13-01-2012: Journal of Instrumentation published OH article

added by Erik van der Bij on 2012-01-13 10:51:16.634719

The article Open Hardware for CERN’s Accelerator Control Systems, by E. van der Bij et al, has been published in the Journal of Instrumentation JINST Vol.7, January 2012. It presents concisely the different aspects of CERN's Open Hardware developments.

The article is related to the poster Open Hardware for CERN’s Accelerator Control Systems presented at the TWEPP 2011 conference in Vienna, Austria.

03-11-2011: First CERN OH product in catalog of company

added by Erik van der Bij on 2011-11-03 09:36:19.175423

The FMC ADC 100M 14b 4cha FMC card designed at CERN is available as a product in the catalog of the Dutch company INCAA Computers. It is the first CERN Open Hardware product that is available this way. The SPEC PCI Express carrier is also commercially available, but is not yet shown in the catalog of the two companies that produce it.

TWEPP conference presents OHR

added by Erik van der Bij on 2011-10-13 10:42:52.958718

At the TWEPP conference in Vienna, Austria, the poster Open Hardware for CERN’s Accelerator Control Systems has been presented.

CEO LinkedIn: "I keep a close eye on Open Source Hardware"

added by Erik van der Bij on 2011-09-20 09:39:08.167509

In an interview with Le Figaro, when the final question is asked: "From where do you see the next big technological turning point?", Reid Hoffman, CEO of LinkedIn answers: "I keep a close eye on the domain of open source hardware".

See the interview (in French) at Le Figaro

Q: "D'où voyez-vous venir la prochaine grande rupture technologique?".
A: "Je surveille de près le domaine du hardware open source."

OH Workshop just one month away!

added by Javier Serrano on 2011-09-10 11:48:59.864453

Registration instructions can be found in the workshop page.

08-07-2011: CERN releases Open Hardware License v1.1

added by Javier Serrano on 2011-07-08 08:55:08.686135

"Four months after launching the alpha version, CERN has today issued version 1.1 of the Open Hardware Licence (OHL), a legal framework to facilitate knowledge exchange across the electronic design community." More info here.

Open Hardware workshop to happen in October

added by Javier Serrano on 2011-07-08 08:52:42.171729

We are preparing an Open Hardware workshop to discuss legal aspects, commercial models, tools and designs. More info here.

07-06-2011: OHR in CERN Courier

added by Erik van der Bij on 2011-06-07 14:43:38.561304

The CERN Courier, aka the International Journal of High-Energy Physics has a full article titled Hardware joins the open movement describing the Open Hardware Repository, the CERN Open Hardware Licence and the White Rabbit timing protocol.