OpenCollector Database

gEDA 1.4.3	Category: tool
gs 5 January 2009; 09:23

gEDA is a suite of electronic design automation (EDA) tools. Currently, the project offers a mature suite of free software applications for electronics design, including schematic capture, attribute management, bill of materials (BOM) generation, netlisting into over 20 netlist formats, analog and digital simulation, and printed circuit board (PCB) layout.

Update
This is the sixth stable release of gEDA/gaf. It rolls up a few bug fixes that were made since version 1.4.2. Hopefully this will be the last 1.4.x stable release.

License: GPL

layout editor 20090105	Category: tool
J. Thies 5 January 2009; 06:10

A IC/MEMS layout editor. Features: all angle, font generator, macros, boolean operations, design rule checker, crossplatform compatible, supported formats:Calma GDSII, OASIS (Open Artwork System Interchange Standard), DXF, CIF (Caltech Intermediate Form), Gerber, ...

Update
New features: dialog to manage the layers, mapping layer/datatype on GDS/OASIS import/export possible, shortkey learning with CapsLock key, export of gerber format, barcode generator, add a crop cell function, add a crop sharp angles function, add a convert to mesh function, enhancement of the manual routing, add support of non square vias, editing of circle properties, add SVG+CVS+pixel file formats, ... and many smaller bug fixes.

License: GPL

SVEditor 0.0.4	Category: tool
Matthew Ballance 1 January 2009; 15:50

SVEditor is an Eclipse-based editor for SystemVerilog files.

Update
The 0.0.4 release introduces several new features to provide better navigation and content assist, as well as a few bug fixes.

License: Other

GTKWave 3.2.0RC2	Category: tool
gs 31 December 2008; 07:53

GTKWave is a fully featured GTK+ based wave viewer for Unix and Win32 which reads LXT, LXT2, and VZT files as well as standard Verilog VCD/EVCD files and allows their viewing.

Update
Website moved to sourceforge

License: GPL

Electric 8.08	Category: tool
gs 31 December 2008; 07:50

The Electric VLSI Design System is a framework for all computer-aided design and engineering work. The system understands MOS, Bipolar, schematics, printed circuitry, artwork, and many others. In addition, Electric contains design-rule checkers, simulators, generators (PLA, etc.), routers, a VHDL compiler, a compactor, network comparison, and other tools. Interpretive languages can be built-in (currently LISP and TCL are available). Current versions of Electric have been rewritten from C to Java.

Update
This release includes many improvements and bug fixes. Notable improvements include a faster ERC well check and a new fill generator.

License: GPL

OpenTech Package 1.8.0	Category: announcement
Jamil Khatib` 4 December 2008; 02:35

OpenTech is the first world wide package of free open source hardware designs, software and Books for electronics designs. Since 2000 we have sold OpenTech packages to Students, Professors, Engineers, Startup and even large corporations. In OpenTech package you will find many things that you can not imagine they even exists as open source. Most of the OpenCollector Tools and Designs are available in OpenTech and even more. You will find CPUs , Ethernet, USB and other 300 designs. VHDL, Verilog, Schematic, IC and board layout and many many other software programs more than 300 programs. In short you will find lot of information that helps you in designing your system or testing it. The package is composed of 3DVDs and 1CD that costs only 70 Euros. Use free open source tools and designs in OpenTech package and save more than $500,000 and more than 3 months of download time.

RFID Guardian V3	Category: design
gs 27 November 2008; 09:15

The RFID Guardian Project is a collaborative project focused upon providing security and privacy in Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) systems. The goals of the project are to:

Investigate the security and privacy threats faced by RFID systems
Design and implement real solutions against these threats
Investigate the associated technological and legal issues

The namesake of our project is the RFID Guardian: a mobile battery-powered device that offers personal RFID security and privacy management.

License: Other

Covered 20081119	Category: tool
Trevor Williams 19 November 2008; 18:01

Covered is a Verilog code coverage utility that reads in a Verilog design and generated VCD/LXT dumpfile (or runnable in VPI module form) from that design and generates a coverage file that can be merged with other coverage files and/or used to create a coverage report. Covered also contains the coverage report utility that reads in a coverage file to produce human-readable coverage reports viewable in ASCII or GUI form. Areas of coverage measured by Covered are: line, toggle, memory, combinational logic, FSM state and FSM state transition, and assertion coverage.

Update
Contains new merge capabilities, bug fixes and documentation updates. Beta release for upcoming 0.7 stable release.

License: GPL

GECKO3 3	Category: design
zac1 21 October 2008; 09:03

The GECKO system is a general purpose hardware/software co-design environment for real-time information processing or for system-on-chip (SoC) solutions. The GECKO system supports a new design methodology for system-on-chips, which necessitates co-design of software, fast hardware and dedicated real-time signal processing hardware. Within the GECKO system, the GECKO3main board represents an experimental platform, which offers the necessary computing power for speed intensive real-time algorithms as well as the necessary flexibility for control intensive software tasks. The GECKO3main board can be used for research and industrial projects. The complete GECKO3education system including additional boards with sensors, motors and mechanical housing is used for educational purposes. All parts of this project are open to the public (Open Source) and are either licensed under the GNU General Public License or Creative Commons.

License: Other

Magic 7.5	Category: tool
gs 29 September 2008; 07:07

Magic is the classic ASIC layout tool developed at Berkeley in the late 80s and still used today for chip design. There are ports to Linux, FreeBSD, OS/2, Solaris, etc.
Following a pause in development, an active new team is working on Magic. By including all known magic hackers in the new development team, the developers hope to keep the distributions from splintering in the future, and actually keep magic competitive with the big players.

Update
Version bump; updated web adddress. DEC archived versions no longer available.

License: BSD

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