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    1. Open Source Hardware Jamil Khatib Birzeit University 18.04.2007
    2. Contents
      • Open Hardware concepts
      • Barriers & Difficulties
      • Business models
      • Open Hardware for developing countries
      • Handasa Arabia organization
      • Examples
    3. Open Hardware Definition
      • Availability of information needed to reproduce the design/device
      • Design
        • HDL
        • Schematics
        • PCB
      • Concept of operation
      • Testing, verification & Models
      • Interfaces and interconnections
      • Software drivers
      • Production and fabrication
    4. Advantages for developing countries
      • Knowledge transfer
      • Cost reduction of design process
        • Cooperation & Cost distribution
      • Explore and encourage innovators
      • Different point of views (Market, developers, users, etc)
    5. Barriers
      • EDA design software
        • Open source EDA software
      • Physical implementation
        • Simulation
        • Modeling
        • HDL languages
        • Implementation on PLDs (Programmable chips (
      • Test and measurements
        • Online test and measurement devices
        • Shared (online) labs
    6. Intellectual Property (Protection)
      • Copyrights
        • HDLs & schematics (The description)
      • Patents
        • Registration process
    7. Problems in Arab world
      • Lack of technical expertise
      • Lack of industrial R&D activities
      • Lack of cooperation between the industry and the universities
      • Lack of cooperation between universities
    8. Business Models
      • Design distribution
        • OpenTech
      • Design support
        • ASICS.ws
      • Design implementation
        • Flextronics
    9. OpenTech Package
      • 10 CDs
      • More than 300 Electronics design software
      • More than 350 Hardware designs
      • More than 5 free books & tutorials
      • More than 650 sold CDROMs
    10. Advantages to Local Unis
      • New source of learning
      • Share the development
      • Feedback & support
      • Source of innovation
      • Show the prodcuts/projects of the university
      • Free tools and Designs to build upon (Complete system)
      • Possible business models
    11. Handasa Arabia
    12. Handasa Arabia Organization
      • Made in Palestine Competition
        • Arab Science & Technology Foundation
      • International Electronics Design contest for students (IEDCS)
        • IEEE ICM & Waterloo Canada
      • Open Source hardware platform
      • Technology Transfer Support
    13. Contribution to Technological Development
      • International Contests
      • IEDCS04 , 05 , 06, 07
        • International Electronics Design Contest for Students
        • Winners’ Papers published at IEEE ICM Proceedings
      • Local/International Conferences
        • ASTF Technology meeting (Syria, 2006)
        • ALECSO Open Source meeting (Tunis, 2005)
        • Cairo ICT 2005 (Cairo, 2005)
        • IEEE ICM'03,04, IEDCS04 contest (Tunis, 2004)
        • Journalism Syndicate and Scientific Society of Telecommunication Engineers (Cairo, 2004)
        • The IEEE Egyptian Engineering Day (Cairo, 2004)
        • Open source workshop (Syria, 2004)
    14. Open Source EDA
      • Design Entry (Schematics)
      • Layout
      • Simulation
      • Verification
      • VHDL & Verilog
        • Icarus Verilog
        • FreeHDL (VHDL)
        • Alliance (VHDL)
    15. Examples
    16. gEDA
    17. Kicad
    18. KiCAD
    19. gtkwave
    20. Magic
    21. Open Source Hardware
      • Board Designs
        • Test boards, Processors boards
      • Systems
        • Logic Analyzer
      • HDL Cores
        • OpenCores
      • Models
        • Free Model Foundry
    22. OpenCores
    23. OpenCores
    24. Open Hardware resources
      • www.handasarabia.org
      • www.opencollector.org
      • www.opencores.org
    25. Thank you
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