Announced About the formation of a new non-profit organization Open-Source FPGA Foundation (OSFPGA) aimed at developing, promoting and creating a comfortable environment for the joint development of open hardware and software solutions related to the use of programmable logical integrated circuits FPGA (user-programmable valve matrix) allowing reprogramming work logic after Making chip. Key binary operations (and, Nand, OR, NOR and XOR) are implemented in such chips using logical valves (switches) having multiple inputs and one output, the configuration of the connections between which can be changed programmatically.
to Independents OSFPGA organization included some prominent technologies related to FPGA related to companies and projects as EPFL, QuickLogic, Zero ASIC and GSG Group. Under the auspices of the new organization will develop a set of open and free tools for quickly creating prototypes based on FPGA chips and support tools for automating electronics design (EDA). The organization will also oversee the joint development of open standards related to FPGA, providing companies in a neutral platform for sharing experience and technologies.
It is expected that thanks to OSFPGA’s activities, chip manufacturing companies will be able to get rid of some engineering processes in the production of FPGA, final decisions developers will receive a ready-made configurable software stack for FPGA and will be sold together to create new high-quality architectures.
It is noted that in the organization provided by OSFPGA open tools will be supported by the highest level of quality, the corresponding or superior requirements of industrial standards.
The main objectives of Open-Source FPGA FOUNDATION:
- Providing resources and infrastructure to develop a set of tools associated with FPGA equipment and software.
- Promotion of using data tools through various events.
- Providing support, development and openness tools for the study of advanced FPGA architectures, as well as related software and hardware developments.
- Maintaining the catalog of publicly available FPGA architectures, design and designing technologies borrowed from publications and descriptions of patents with an expiratory period.
- Preparation and provision of access to educational materials, helping to form a community of concerned developers.
- Simplify interaction with chip manufacturers to reduce costs and reduce testing time and checking new FPGA and equipment architectures.
Project-related open tools: