Open hardware repository
The Open Hardware Repository ( OHWR ) is a platform on which electrical technicians and engineers from research institutions can collaboratively develop and produce new hardware , analogous to the development of open source software . The platform was founded in 2011 by researchers at CERN and is now home to over 100 different open hardware projects (as of January 2013).
According to CERN, the advantages of open hardware for hardware developers are: help for developers who otherwise cannot master some technologies, avoidance of unnecessary work when the necessary circuits have already been developed, increase quality through reviews of other developers.
Emergence
The development of the OHWR has its origins in the White Rabbit project , an Ethernet- based network for the transmission and synchronization of general data. Javier Serrano, head of the Hardware and Timing group in CERN's Beam Control Group , believed that hardware development could lead to better results through contributions from different teams and individual developers. On July 7, 2011, CERN officially launched version 1.1 after four months of alpha testing. Institutes from eleven European, African and South American universities are now participating in projects (as of January 2013).
Licensing
As part of the further development of the OHWR, CERN published the CERN Open Hardware License in 2011 , a license for the provision of free hardware. It is used by OHWR projects and is available to other developers free of charge.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Marina Giampietro: Hardware joins the open movement. In: cerncourier.com. June 6, 2011, accessed March 9, 2018 .
- ↑ Javier D. Garcia-Lasheras: Introducing CERN's Open Hardware Repository. In: eetimes.com. August 12, 2013, accessed March 9, 2018 .
- ↑ CERN Open Hardware License - Introduction. In: ohwr.org. November 17, 2017, accessed March 9, 2018 .