Abstract:Reusability is the key element in today’s VLSI design. Open-source hardware provides a more thorough and effective way for design reusability than traditional charged closed-source IP by sharing its design documents and IP modules. And open-source hardware based SoC design method is being accepted and practiced by more and more designers. This paper introduces relative concepts, benefits, problems and perspectives of open-source hardware in detail, and discusses open-source hardware based design flow in depth by exampling an open-source processor design.
麦宋平; 张春; 杨昆; 王志华. 基于开放源代码的硬件设计方法研究[J]. 电子与信息学报, 2007, 29(7): 1761-1764 .
Mai Song-ping; Zhang Chun; Yang Kun; Wang Zhi-hua. Research on Open-Source Hardware Based Design Method. , 2007, 29(7): 1761-1764 .