Editing OpenCores (section)

{{Short description|Open-source hardware community}}
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'''OpenCores''' is a community developing [[Digital data|digital]] [[open-source hardware]] through [[electronic design automation]] (EDA), with a similar ethos to the [[free software movement]]. OpenCores hopes to eliminate redundant design work and significantly reduce development costs. A number of companies have been reported as adopting OpenCores IP in chips,<ref name="flextronics">Andrew Orlowski, "Flextronics demos open source chips", ''The Register'', 12 December 2003, [https://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/12/12/flextronics_demos_open_source_chips/]</ref><ref>Rick Merritt, "Vivace plans to release HD media processors", ''EE Times India'' (online edition), 20 April 2006 [http://www.eetindia.co.in/ART_8800415135_1800010_NT_22ab7fe0.HTM] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150107075217/http://www.eetindia.co.in/ART_8800415135_1800010_NT_22ab7fe0.HTM|date=7 January 2015}}</ref> or as adjuncts to EDA tools.<ref>Dylan McGrath, "Firm packages OpenCores IP with EDA tool", ''EE Times'' (online edition), 9 January 2006 [http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=192501283]</ref><ref>"OVP Simulator Smashes SystemC TLM-2.0 Performance Barrier", ''EDA Cafe'', 5 February 2009 [http://www10.EDACafe.com/nbc/articles/view_article.php?section=CorpNews&articleid=650050]</ref> OpenCores is also sometimes cited as an example of open source in the electronics hardware community.<ref>Richard Goering, "Doors 'open' to hardware", ''EE Times'' (online edition), 6 June 2005 [http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=163702854]</ref>

OpenCores has always been a commercially owned organization. In 2015, its core active users established the independent [[Free and Open Source Silicon Foundation]] (FOSSi Foundation), and created another directory on the librecores.org<ref>[https://www.librecores.org librecores.org]</ref> website as the basis for all future development, independent of commercial control. It has been shut down to redirect to a post on the FOSSi Foundation website seven years later in favor of a simple web search, reasoning that "free and open source silicon is no longer a dream".<ref>Philipp Wagner, "Mission accomplished! LibreCores is closing down", 19 October 2022 [https://www.fossi-foundation.org/2022/10/19/librecores]</ref>