Challenges and opportunities for Open Source Hardware in academia and industry: Roundtable
summary
Claims a decade of open‑source silicon use in commercial FPGA projects but names infrastructure as the bottleneck: missing IP cores, front‑end parsers, and simulation/verification tooling. Cites concrete efforts and tools (Chisel, Verilog/VHDL front ends, open-source formal verification) plus programs like NetFPGA and DARPA Quattro; notes a RISC‑V membership covenant with ~235 signed agreements for patent non‑suit. Argues startups can prototype on FPGAs, verification remains the costly gate, and cites Red Hat’s $34B buyout and Amazon’s FPGA offerings as business‑model precedents.
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- 0:00Start
- 43:04Business Model
- 52:19How Do We Build a Community around an Open Hardware Artefact
- 1:01:44Formal Verification
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