HiPEAC 2018, January 22nd - 24th, Mancester, UK.

1. www.sundance.com
Open Hardware Repository
Who?, Why? & How?
By: Flemming CHRISTENSEN
Managing Director
Flemming.C@Sundance.com
linkedin.com/in/flemming-christensen-649987
Mobile: +44 07850 911 417
Skype: “Flemming_Sundance”

2. 1. The Sundance ‘Kids’
- who are we?
2. Open Hardware Repository
CERN’s idea – www.ohr.org
3. Why all public funded R&D should follow this idea!
What has Sundance done already
8 MINUTES TO COVER…..

3. Electronics
Design and Manufacturing
Established in 1989 by Flemming CHRISTENSEN
• Employee Owned and a ’Life-Style’ company
• 11x people with 300+ years experince
• ISO9001:2015 accredited
• Always designed and built our own products

4. Self Adaptive Heterogeneous
ManyCore on Flexible Tiles
• FlexTiles Development Platform
• Dual Virtex-6 SX475 FPGAs
• Up to 40x MicroBlaze CPU per board
• EU FP7 Project – www.FlexTiles.eu

5. Embedded Multi-Core Mixed
Criticality Applications
• EMC2 Development Platform
• Intergrated Zynq w. ARM + FPGA
• Support for Xilinx SDSoC Tools
• Artemis Project - http://www.artemis-emc2.eu/

6. Towards Ubiquitous Low-power
Image Processing Platforms
•Tulipp Development Platform
• Xilinx Zynq SoC w. ARMs + FPGA fabric
• Support for Xilinx SDSoC Tools
• Movidus MultiCore CPUs/DSPs
• NVIDIA SoC w. ARMs and GPU
• H2020 Project – www.Tulipp.eu

7. Intelligent decisions
from vineyard robots
H2020 Project – www.vinescout.eu – GA 737669

8. Avoid Vendor lock-in
…

9. Why Open Hardware
o Design Reuse
Enjoy what other people have done
o Well established standards
o Ethernet, PCIe, WISHBONE
o Peer Review
Enjoy contribution from other people
o Rigorous design process

10. o Design Reuse
Why Open Hardware
Enjoy what other people have done
o Well established
o PC/104, VITA, PCIe, WISHBONE

11. Why Open Hardware
o Dissemination of knowledge
Make a
contribution
o Not Free as Free beer
Healthy relationship with companies
o Need to make a living!
o Open projects have paid developers
o Free as Freedom

12. Open: a Win – Win Situation
o Designs with added value
o Freedom to use, improve and produce
o Manufacturing, Testing, Warranty, Support
o Better designs
o Review, Optimize
o More users, more feedback
o Open products are real products
o CERN has designed over ten Open products
o Produced, sold and supported by different companies
o Products used by many institutes and industry
o Fun

13. Open Hardware Repository
www.ohwr.org
o 100 active projects
o 70 initiated by CERN, 30 outside
o 60 hardware designs, 40 IP blocks
o 140 active developers
o 12 companies
o 10 research centers
www.ohwr.org

14. Open Hardware is commercial
Commercial
Non-
commercial
Open
Winning
combination.
Best of both worlds.
Whole burden falls
on developers.
Not scalable.
Proprietary Vendor lock-in.
Dedicated, non-
reusable projects.

15.  https://www.ohwr.org/projects/emc2-dp/wiki
 http://www.sundance.technology/som-cariers/pc104-boards/
Sundance First Contribution

16.  https://www.ohwr.org/projects/vs-1/wiki
 http://tulipp.eu/public-deliverables/d2-1-first-instance-of-power-efficient-platform/
Sundance Next Contribution

17.  https://www.ohwr.org/projects/xxx/wiki
 https://vinescout.eu/web/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/D1.1a_Deployment-of-prototype-I.pdf
Sundance Next Contribution

18. Next… - with you?
www.sundance.com