Agenda for the Open Hardware Workshop
This workshop will be held during the Sunday preceding ICALEPCS 2011, i.e. 9 October 2011 in Grenoble, France. There will be a participation fee of 50 euros to book the venue. This fee includes a pack lunch. You will find the current state of the program below. Please subscribe to the workshop mailing list if you wish to take part in the discussion. If you want to participate in the workshop, please use the official registration page (notice it is certainly possible to attend only the workshop instead of workshop+conference, by using this link).
Morning
- Session 1: Introduction and legal framework. This will be an
opportunity to define exactly what we mean by OH and discuss the
latest developments on the legal side, such as the
recently-published CERN Open Hardware License.
- Open Hardware: what, why, how, when, who (Javier Serrano).
- *Summary of the Open Hardware Summit* (Tomasz Wlostowski).
- Open Hardware Licensing (Myriam Ayass).
- Discussion.
- Session 2: Business models. It is very interesting to discuss the
role(s) of companies and how they can make business under an open
paradigm.
- Open Hardware in Creotech (Grzegorz Kasprowicz).
- Open Hardware perspectives in National Instruments (Ravi Marawar, 20 min).
- First experience in Seven Solutions (Eduardo Ros).
- Clear roadmap for Open HW in Instrumentation Technologies (Borut Repič).
- Arduino (David Cuartielles).
- The Facebook Open Compute Project (John Kenevey, 40 min, video CC BY-SA). Facebook's Open Compute Project is a nascent community which is actively seeking participants who are passionate about making strong technical contributions to defining and delivering the most efficient server, storage and data center designs. One of the enablers of said community is to ensure they have the necessary tools to provide open electrical and mechanical designs to the Open Compute Project. I will share Open Computes genesis and future community driven trajectory in this presentation.
- Discussion.
Afternoon
- Session 3: Tools. Most of our tools are not open themselves yet.
Here we can discuss about what is the current offer and possible
future plans. This affects mainly HDL simulation and PCB design.
- Makefile-driven HDL flow (Pawel Szostek).
- Icarus Verilog/VHDL (Pawel Szostek).
- How to design logic synthesis and place&route tools (Sébastien Bourdeauducq, 45 min, video CC BY-SA). While many researchers and engineers agree that several obstacles stem from the proprietary tools of the FPGA vendors, writing an alternative from scratch has always been perceived to be far too complex of a task. This perception comes largely from the lack of generic knowledge about the internals of a synthesis and place-and-route tool and the absence of published details regarding particular FPGA architectures and bitstream formats. In order to encourage the development of alternative tools, we will attempt to shed some light on these concepts and give hints about how the Xilinx Spartan-6 architecture and bitstream format work and how they could be fully understood.
- GNU PCB (Larry Doolittle).
- Kicad (Dick Hollenbeck).
- *What's missing in current FOSS PCB design tools* (Tomasz Wlostowski).
- Discussion.
- Session 4: Ongoing projects in labs and institutes. A selection of
current projects illustrating OH practice. Here we could also
discuss common platforms, both in HW and HDL.
- CERN OH developments (Erik van der Bij).
- OH developments in Soleil (Pascale Betinelli).
- The Rhino Project (Alan Langman).
- Discussion.
Participants so far
01. Michael Abbott (Diamond Light Source Ltd).
02. Yves-Marie Abiven (Soleil).
03. Pablo Álvarez (CERN).
04. Myriam Ayass (CERN).
05. Ralph Baer (GSI).
06. Dietrich Beck (GSI).
07. Pascale Betinelli (Soleil).
08. Jerôme Bisou (Soleil).
09. Andrea Borga (NIKHEF).
10. Sébastien Bourdeauducq (Milkymist).
11. Charlie Briegel (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory).
12. Nicola Cardines (CERN).
13. Matthieu Cattin (CERN).
14. Jean-Pierre Charras (Kicad).
15. Dominique Corruble (Soleil).
16. David Cuartielles (Arduino).
17. Don Dale (TRIUMF).
18. Daniel de Oliveira Tavares (Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory,
LNLS).
19. Nicolas di Risio (University of Pavia)
20. Larry Doolittle (LBNL).
21. George Fatkin (Russian Academy of Sciences).
22. Pablo Fernández (CERN).
23. Sébastien Franz (CERN).
24. Kazuro Furukawa (KEK).
25. Yukito Furukawa (Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute).
26. Philippe Gayet (CERN).
27. Patrick Gessler (European XFEL GmbH).
28. Guanghua Gong (Tsinghua University).
29. Matias Guijarro (ESRF).
30. Steve Gunn (University of Southampton).
31. Brandon Hamilton (University of Cape Town).
32. Dick Hollenbeck (Kicad).
33. Billy Huang (Culham Centre for Fusion Energy).
34. Benjamin Jean (Inno 3).
35. Mike Jennison (EURATOM/CCFE).
36. Tomasz Jezynski (DESY).
37. Grzegorz Kasprowicz (Creotech).
38. John Kenevey (Facebook).
39. Jean-Marc Koch (ESRF).
40. Ivan Kohler (iThemba LABS).
41. Martin Kraimer (ANL).
42. Mathias Kreider (GSI).
43. Žiga Kroflic (COBIK/Cosylab).
44. Alan Langman (University of Cape Town).
45. Maciej Lipinski (CERN).
46. Ravi Marawar (National Instruments).
47. Takemasa Masuda (Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute).
48. Andrew Moore (University of Cambridge).
49. Alexey Panov (Russian Academy of Sciences).
50. Stefan Rauch (GSI)
51. Guillaume Renaud (Soleil).
52. Borut Repič (Instrumentation Technologies).
53. Jean-Paul Ricaud (Soleil).
54. Eduardo Ros (Seven Solutions).
55. Alessandro Rubini (University of Pavia).
56. Lucas Sanfelici (Sirius Project, LNLS).
57. Stefan Schlenker (CERN)
58. Luka Šepetavc (COBIK/Cosylab).
59. Carlos Serrano (LBNL).
60. Javier Serrano (CERN).
61. Bart Sijbrandij (INCAA Computers).
62. Pawel Szostek (Technical University Warsaw).
63. Charilaos Tsarouchas (CERN).
64. Isa Uzun (Diamond Light Source Ltd).
65. Federico Vaga (University of Pavia)
66. Erik van der Bij (CERN).
67. Axel Voitier (CERN).
68. Tomasz Wlostowski (CERN).
Reference material
- Third part of the Document.
- Slides and notes for an OH talk in FSCONS 2010 (video part 1 and part 2).