BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Pentabarf//Schedule 0.3//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALDESC;VALUE=TEXT:CAD and Open Hardware devroom X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:CAD and Open Hardware devroom X-WR-TIMEZONE;VALUE=TEXT:Europe/Brussels BEGIN:VEVENT METHOD:PUBLISH UID:8732@FOSDEM19@fosdem.org TZID:Europe-Brussels DTSTART:20190203T090000 DTEND:20190203T092500 SUMMARY:Gnucap -- The GNU circuit analysis package DESCRIPTION:
Digital vs analog simulation and in between, principles of fast spice algorithms, how Gnucap does it. Possible simulator architectures, monolithic vs modular. Relevant implementation details and benefits will be highlighted.
Recent applications will be presented, including Gnucsator, Gnucap-Python. Gnucsator provides the component library needed to replace the simulator behind the QUCS project. Gnucap-Python builds the bridge between component modelling, circuit simulation and scientific software packages available from Python scripts. Examples include parametric optimisation (nlopt) and transfer function analysis (scipy).
CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:CAD and Open Hardware URL:https:/fosdem.org/2019/schedule/2019/schedule/event/gnucap/ LOCATION:AW1.125 ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;CUTYPE=INDIVIDUAL;CN="Felix Salfelder":invalid:nomail END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT METHOD:PUBLISH UID:8636@FOSDEM19@fosdem.org TZID:Europe-Brussels DTSTART:20190203T093000 DTEND:20190203T095500 SUMMARY:ngspice, current status and future developments DESCRIPTION:The talk will review the current status of ngspice, the open source spice simulator for electric circuits.After some years of quiet development, with release of ngspice-27 in 2017 we have accelerated the pace for development. Major activities have been around compatibility, code stability and features for enhanced applicability.
CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:CAD and Open Hardware URL:https:/fosdem.org/2019/schedule/2019/schedule/event/ngspice/ LOCATION:AW1.125 ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;CUTYPE=INDIVIDUAL;CN="Holger Vogt":invalid:nomail END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT METHOD:PUBLISH UID:8730@FOSDEM19@fosdem.org TZID:Europe-Brussels DTSTART:20190203T100000 DTEND:20190203T102500 SUMMARY:openEMS - An Introduction and Overview DESCRIPTION:openEMS is an electromagnetic field solver using the FDTD method. The tool can be used to design and understand the electromagnetic behavior of antennas, filters, PCBs and more. It has an Octave (or Matlab) and Python interface to setup and analyze the simulation model. This allows for a great flexibility and the possibility to integrate or interface to other software.
The talk will give a short introduction into the FDTD method and for which cases it is suitable, which features it offers, how to get started using the tool and which interfaces to other software already exist.
CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:CAD and Open Hardware URL:https:/fosdem.org/2019/schedule/2019/schedule/event/openems/ LOCATION:AW1.125 ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;CUTYPE=INDIVIDUAL;CN="Thorsten Liebig":invalid:nomail END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT METHOD:PUBLISH UID:7946@FOSDEM19@fosdem.org TZID:Europe-Brussels DTSTART:20190203T103000 DTEND:20190203T105500 SUMMARY:Project Trellis and nextpnr DESCRIPTION:Following on from Project Icestorm; Project Trellis has created bitstream documentation for the substantially larger Lattice ECP5 FPGAs. This has been combined with a new multi-architecture FOSS place-and-route tool, nextpnr, and the existing Yosys Verilog synthesis tool to build a fully-FOSS FPGA flow for these parts; capable of building advanced designs including SoCs running Linux! This talk will include an overview of the flow for developers and end users alike; as well as how you can contribute to the FOSS FPGA ecosystem.
CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:CAD and Open Hardware URL:https:/fosdem.org/2019/schedule/2019/schedule/event/trellis_and_nextpnr/ LOCATION:AW1.125 ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;CUTYPE=INDIVIDUAL;CN="David Shah":invalid:nomail END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT METHOD:PUBLISH UID:8763@FOSDEM19@fosdem.org TZID:Europe-Brussels DTSTART:20190203T110000 DTEND:20190203T112500 SUMMARY:Design Automation in Wonderland DESCRIPTION:The EPFL logic synthesis libraries are a collection of open source C++ libraries for the development of logic synthesis applications. Today, there are six libraries focused on classical computing: alice, easy, kitty, lorina, mockturtle and percy. All libraries are well documented and tested. Furthermore, being header-only, the libraries can be readily used as core components in complex design automation systems, e.g., Yosys.
In this talk, I will demonstrate how simple it is to compose these libraries to create a personalized synthesis tool capable of reading a Verilog description of a circuit, building a logic network out of it, optimizing the logic network, and then map it to lookup tables of six inputs (LUT6).
The libraries: - The alice library is a lightweight wrapper for shell interfaces, which is the typical user interface for most design automation applications. It includes a Python interface to support scripting. - The lorina library is a parsing library for simple CAD file formats. - The kitty library is a truth table library for explicit representation and manipulation of Boolean functions. - The mockturtle library implements several logic network representations and logic optimization algorithms. - percy is an exact synthesis library with multiple engines to find optimum logic networks.
CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:CAD and Open Hardware URL:https:/fosdem.org/2019/schedule/2019/schedule/event/epfl_logic_synthesis/ LOCATION:AW1.125 ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;CUTYPE=INDIVIDUAL;CN="Bruno Schmitt":invalid:nomail END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT METHOD:PUBLISH UID:7749@FOSDEM19@fosdem.org TZID:Europe-Brussels DTSTART:20190203T113000 DTEND:20190203T114000 SUMMARY:Open source virtual prototyping for faster hardware and software co-design DESCRIPTION:Co-designing hardware and software is a long and iterative process specific to embedded system design. Mainly driven by hardware prototype iterations, it makes project time and cost hard to forecast.While software modifications can be done in a modular and non-destructive way, reworking on hardware implies production of new prototypes. Moreover, software optimizations being strongly hardware-dependent, the software development could remain idle during hardware re-prototyping. This uncertainty on time and cost makes embedded systems projects hard to fund. In the end, ambitious projects are mostly reserved to large companies.Hardware simulation and virtual prototyping contributes to solve this issue. A virtual prototype consists in a software application representing the system's hardware behavior, allowing system's software to be directly executed without the real hardware. Once available, a virtual prototype reduces embedded system time-to-market and development cost.However, virtual prototype development cost makes them inaccessible. Hardware simulation leverages models which are hard to find and which interoperability is lacking. Each company should invest and maintain its own virtual prototyping solution. That is why in Hiventive, we believe that the emergence of an open source, unified, normalized hardware and software ecosystem leveraging state-of-the-art virtual prototyping technologies and methodologies is necessary to boost and widely generalize the use of virtual prototypes. Thus, we will present our innovative open source collection of solutions to enable and empower virtual prototyping for everyone.
CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:CAD and Open Hardware URL:https:/fosdem.org/2019/schedule/2019/schedule/event/virtual_prototyping/ LOCATION:AW1.125 ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;CUTYPE=INDIVIDUAL;CN="Guillaume Delbergue":invalid:nomail END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT METHOD:PUBLISH UID:8455@FOSDEM19@fosdem.org TZID:Europe-Brussels DTSTART:20190203T114500 DTEND:20190203T115500 SUMMARY:Lesson learned from Retro-uC and search for ideal HDL for open source silicon DESCRIPTION:The Retro-uC was a crowdfunding campaign for an open source silicon project. One of the reasons the campaign did not attract enough people was a lack of enough attractive features. The feature set was kept minimal to allow a first time right chip production.The choice of HDL is important to allow to implement more features with enough productivity and without increasing the risk of having buggy silicon. As will be presented, the venerable VHDL and Verilog RTL languages are not considered ideal for this purpose. In the quick talk an overview of pros and cons of some HDL investigated for further development will be presented.
CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:CAD and Open Hardware URL:https:/fosdem.org/2019/schedule/2019/schedule/event/chips4makers/ LOCATION:AW1.125 ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;CUTYPE=INDIVIDUAL;CN="Staf Verhaegen":invalid:nomail END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT METHOD:PUBLISH UID:8683@FOSDEM19@fosdem.org TZID:Europe-Brussels DTSTART:20190203T120000 DTEND:20190203T122500 SUMMARY:Fritzing - the past, the present and the future DESCRIPTION:Making electronics accessible to the broad public was mainly made possible by Arduino, the Raspberry PI and last but not least Fritzing. Back in 2009 it was a pain to get from a loose wiring on a breadboard to a PCB. Fritzing came up first with a unique breadboard view and a simple to use PCB layout.Fast forward 10 years Fritzing is still widely used by over 200.000 users but struggles to find a sustainable way to fund its development.
This talk will give a rough introduction to Fritzing including its strength and weaknesses and introduce a roadmap for its further development.
CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:CAD and Open Hardware URL:https:/fosdem.org/2019/schedule/2019/schedule/event/fritzing/ LOCATION:AW1.125 ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;CUTYPE=INDIVIDUAL;CN="Patrick Franken":invalid:nomail END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT METHOD:PUBLISH UID:7888@FOSDEM19@fosdem.org TZID:Europe-Brussels DTSTART:20190203T123000 DTEND:20190203T125500 SUMMARY:KiCad Project Status DESCRIPTION:A state-of-the-union talk by KiCad's project leader.
CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:CAD and Open Hardware URL:https:/fosdem.org/2019/schedule/2019/schedule/event/kicad/ LOCATION:AW1.125 ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;CUTYPE=INDIVIDUAL;CN="Wayne Stambaugh":invalid:nomail END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT METHOD:PUBLISH UID:8656@FOSDEM19@fosdem.org TZID:Europe-Brussels DTSTART:20190203T130000 DTEND:20190203T131000 SUMMARY:Drawing PCBs with Inkscape DESCRIPTION:A quick introduction to using the vector drawing tool Inkscape with the SVG2Shenzhen plugin to turn arbitrary drawings into PCB design layers in KiCad. No previous knowledge of PCB design, electronics or Inkscape required.
CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:CAD and Open Hardware URL:https:/fosdem.org/2019/schedule/2019/schedule/event/pcb_inkscape/ LOCATION:AW1.125 ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;CUTYPE=INDIVIDUAL;CN="Kaspar Emanuel":invalid:nomail END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT METHOD:PUBLISH UID:8488@FOSDEM19@fosdem.org TZID:Europe-Brussels DTSTART:20190203T131500 DTEND:20190203T132500 SUMMARY:The Kitspace BOM Builder DESCRIPTION:The Kitspace BOM builder is a tool that tries to make it easy and fun to select parts for your electronics project by giving you all the information you need and automating everything that can be automated. This talk covers what it does, how to use it and how it is built.
CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:CAD and Open Hardware URL:https:/fosdem.org/2019/schedule/2019/schedule/event/kitspace_bom_builder/ LOCATION:AW1.125 ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;CUTYPE=INDIVIDUAL;CN="Kaspar Emanuel":invalid:nomail END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT METHOD:PUBLISH UID:8463@FOSDEM19@fosdem.org TZID:Europe-Brussels DTSTART:20190203T133000 DTEND:20190203T135500 SUMMARY:horizon EDA - what's new DESCRIPTION:Horizon is a from-scratch EDA package with focus on useful parts management and rule-driven design. It has already proven it's suitability for medium-complexity projects in the board design for my master thesis.
CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:CAD and Open Hardware URL:https:/fosdem.org/2019/schedule/2019/schedule/event/horizon/ LOCATION:AW1.125 ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;CUTYPE=INDIVIDUAL;CN="Lukas Kramer":invalid:nomail END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT METHOD:PUBLISH UID:8564@FOSDEM19@fosdem.org TZID:Europe-Brussels DTSTART:20190203T140000 DTEND:20190203T142500 SUMMARY:From the idea to the prototype using FLOSS DESCRIPTION:Now that Arduino, Raspeberry Pi & other development boards are widely available, anyone can envision creating an intelligent and/or connected object. But which tools do the FLOSS community provide to help us in this kind of project ?
CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:CAD and Open Hardware URL:https:/fosdem.org/2019/schedule/2019/schedule/event/idea_to_prototype/ LOCATION:AW1.125 ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;CUTYPE=INDIVIDUAL;CN="Arnaud Ferraris":invalid:nomail END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT METHOD:PUBLISH UID:8602@FOSDEM19@fosdem.org TZID:Europe-Brussels DTSTART:20190203T143000 DTEND:20190203T145500 SUMMARY:The Software Developer’s Guide to Open Source Hardware DESCRIPTION:The popularity of the open source hardware movement and IoT is constantly increasing. But is it worth making open source hardware using expensive proprietary software? Of course not!
In this presentation Leon Anavi will share his experience in developing IoT by designing printed circuit boards (PCB) with the free and open source EDA tool KiCAD, the open source hardware certification program of OSHWA, crowdfunding opportunities for low volume manufacturing and open source success stories for building a community. Practical examples based on the certified open source hardware development boards ANAVI Light Controller and ANAVI Thermometer will be provided. The talk also contains information about open source hardware licenses, KiCAD getting started guidelines, tips and tricks for avoiding common mistakes.
Always take with a pinch of salt anything that a software engineer like Leon says about hardware and in the same time have in mind that if he can do it, anyone can! Hopefully the talk will encourage more people to use KiCAD, join the open source hardware movement and certify their open source devices at OSHWA.
CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:CAD and Open Hardware URL:https:/fosdem.org/2019/schedule/2019/schedule/event/guide_to_oshw/ LOCATION:AW1.125 ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;CUTYPE=INDIVIDUAL;CN="Leon Anavi":invalid:nomail END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT METHOD:PUBLISH UID:7754@FOSDEM19@fosdem.org TZID:Europe-Brussels DTSTART:20190203T150000 DTEND:20190203T152500 SUMMARY:Pocket Science Lab - An Open Source Hardware for Electronics Teaching & Learning DESCRIPTION:The hardware comes with a firmware, desktop app, android app - all open source. This tiny pocket lab provides an array of sensors for doing science and engineering experiments. It comes with functions of numerous measurement devices including an oscilloscope, a waveform generator, a frequency counter, a programmable voltage, current source and as a data logger.
During this session, PSLab team will speak about the current development of the project, new features, usage, communities and a story of production in China and lesson learned.
CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:CAD and Open Hardware URL:https:/fosdem.org/2019/schedule/2019/schedule/event/pocket_science_lab/ LOCATION:AW1.125 ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;CUTYPE=INDIVIDUAL;CN="Hong Phuc Dang":invalid:nomail END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT METHOD:PUBLISH UID:7386@FOSDEM19@fosdem.org TZID:Europe-Brussels DTSTART:20190203T153000 DTEND:20190203T155500 SUMMARY:Open Source Hardware for Smart City DESCRIPTION:Smart City concept includes Park Management, City Lighting management, Waste Management, Public Transport monitoring and management, Air quality monitoring, Security and People Healthcare alerts and monitoring. Olimex is working on OSHW solutions for two popular LWPAN technologies, the results of the work will be presented and demonstrated.
CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:CAD and Open Hardware URL:https:/fosdem.org/2019/schedule/2019/schedule/event/oshw_smart_city/ LOCATION:AW1.125 ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;CUTYPE=INDIVIDUAL;CN="Tsvetan Usunov":invalid:nomail END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT METHOD:PUBLISH UID:8640@FOSDEM19@fosdem.org TZID:Europe-Brussels DTSTART:20190203T160000 DTEND:20190203T162500 SUMMARY:Building open source scientific equipment DESCRIPTION:One of the biggest limiting factors preventing people to participate in science & education, is the lack of access to research equipment. Scientific hardware is vital for researchers and educators to conduct the experiments that will provide them with data necessary to answer scientific questions.Luckily, technological advances are making the entry barrier and learning curve for hardware development low enough that more and more researchers are trying their hands at building the tools they need in their labs. In this talk we are going to see examples of Open Source Hardware in Academia, current repositories curating these types of projects, and see more technical details of one of these tools, the FlyPi, an open source “all in one” biology lab to perform state-of-the-art methods in neuroscience, built using off-the-shelf components and 3D printed parts, costing 10-20X less then proprietary counterparts.
CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:CAD and Open Hardware URL:https:/fosdem.org/2019/schedule/2019/schedule/event/scientific_oshw/ LOCATION:AW1.125 ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;CUTYPE=INDIVIDUAL;CN="Andre Maia Chagas":invalid:nomail END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT METHOD:PUBLISH UID:8438@FOSDEM19@fosdem.org TZID:Europe-Brussels DTSTART:20190203T163000 DTEND:20190203T170000 SUMMARY:FST-01SZ (Flying Stone Tiny 01 revision ShenZhen) DESCRIPTION:Gnuk Token is a security hardware USB token for GnuPG, which supports OpenPGP card protocol.The important feature is it avoids special thing like hardware accelerator or tool (which comes with NDA).Development environment, Tools, Firmware, and hardware design are all free, as they should be.
FST-01 was designed and used as a reference hardware implementation for Gnuk.In 2011, FST-01 was designed as free hardware design with KiCAD, so that people can use Gnuk Token for their computing, having the nature of reproducible by other parties.In 2016, we had a revision called FST-01G, following update of KiCAD. FST-01 and FST-01G were mass produced and sold more than 1200 pieces (2012-2018).In 2018, it has major update, now called FST-01SZ, using Chinese chip (GD32F103TB) and Chinese connector for USB, following another update of KiCAD.In this short talk, I will show my experience of FST-01/FST-01G/FST-01SZ, focusing new revision.
CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:CAD and Open Hardware URL:https:/fosdem.org/2019/schedule/2019/schedule/event/gnuk_hardware/ LOCATION:AW1.125 ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;CUTYPE=INDIVIDUAL;CN="Yutaka Niibe":invalid:nomail END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR