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Free Hardware Projects

Organizations

  • Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE)
  • Open Source Society University (OSSU)

Production Computers

Laptops

  • Novena Laptop
  • MNT Reform
  • GNU/Linux PowerPC Notebook
  • T-Head ROMA Laptop

Motherboards

  • Milk-V Pioneer (SG2042)

Single Board Computers

  • StarFive VisionFive 2 (has a GPU; Compares to RPi 4, but with a GPU; JH7110 SoC = 4x FU740 + IT GPU)
  • Pine64 Star64 (JH7110 + WiFi)
  • Milk-V Mars (JH7110)
  • BananaPi JH7110 based
  • Milk-V Meles (TH1520)
  • BeagleBoard Beagle-V Ahead (TH1520)
  • Sipeed LicheePi 4A (TH1520; Also has tablet, workstation array and console form factors for the LM4A board)
  • Planned Sipeed SBC based on C908 with RVV Extensions v1.0 (https://twitter.com/SipeedIO/status/1654055669774036993/photo/1)

Processors

SoC

  • AMIGA Chipset SoC
  • LibreSoC
  • Rocket Chip SoC Generator (Has Rocket Core and other CPUs, can also add custom cores)
  • StarFive JH7110 (4x SiFive FU740 + Imagination Tech GPU)
  • Alibaba T-Head TH1520 (4x XuanTie C910 + Imagination Tech BXM-4-64 GPU + 4 TOPS NPU)
  • StarFive JH8100 (upcoming, 12nm)
  • SOPHON SG2042 (64 x C920; RV V Extension 0.7.1)

CPU

  • Shakti Open Core
  • XuanTie by T-Head
  • SiFive (U74 is in SiFive Essential 7 Series; can run Linux)
  • Rocket Core (By SiFive, UCB and CHIPS Alliance; included with Rocket Chip Generator)
  • BOOM (Berkeley Out of Order Machines; By UCB)
  • asics.ws Cores
  • Pile of Cores (PoC; VLSI-EDA/PoC on GitHub)
  • FOSS CPU Cores

Some RISC-V Comparison Overview
RISC V Core Comparison.avif

GPU

  • MIAOW GPGPU Core
  • asicguy/gplgpu on GitHub

FPGA

Note
  • FPGA Cores can be implemented on FPGA development boards. Also, a compiled FPGA project is only supported on that toolchain, and if it is not open-source, the only way others can use it is by reverse engineering.
  • FPGA Development boards are based on FPGA Fabrics. The bitstreams associated with the FPGA Fabrics are usually proprietary and compiled using vendor software, but reverse engineering projects have led to the availability of open source development boards.

FPGA Design Tooling

  • OpenFPGA - A complete FPGA development framework
  • F4PGA (formerly SymbiFlow)
  • Yosys Open Synthesis Suite - It is the framework used by F4PGA
Note

ASIC and FPGA EDA Tooling has three components: Hardware Description, Backend and Frontend

Hardware Description: Verilog, VHDL, Chisel, etc.
Backend: ASIC/FPGA Tooling, Verification, Testing and Simulation
Frontend: Synthesis Tools

FPGA Development Boards

The FPGA bitstreams are vendor secrets, and open source development boards are made by reverse engineering various core bitstreams.

  • Radiona ULX3S (Lattice ECP5 based; 4 variants - ECP5 12k-84k LUTs)
  • OrangeCrab FPGA
  • iCEBreaker FPGA (Lattice iCE40 based)
  • Embedded Micro Mojo V3 FPGA

FPGA Fabrics

Lattice Semiconductor, Microchip, Xilinx, Intel, Analog Devices, QuickLogic

Designs

Organizations

  • OpenCores.org
  • CHIPS Alliance
  • LibreSilicon

Sub-organizations

  • Digilent Vivado IPs (e.g. Pmod BLE)
  • Redwood EDA TL-Verilog
  • Redwood EDA Makerchip

Designs

  • WISHBONE Bus
  • lowRISC
  • PowerPC
  • NVIDIA NVDLA
  • RISC-V
  • OpenRISC

Manufacturing

  • Skywater PDK

Educational

  • Ben Eater's 8-bit Computer
  • DERULF's 8-bit Computer (based on Ben Eater's)

Peripherals

Radio

  • openwifi SDR (based on Vivado)
  • MyriadRF SDR
  • Xilinx Zynq based SDRs (Xilinx is not open hardware)

Software

  • NVIDIA PhysX

Software:

Open Algorithm Open Core Open Source Open License

Hardware:

Open Firmware Open Circuit Board Open Hardware Open Case Design Open License
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