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The next step in OpenCores evolution
by Unknown on Jun 7, 2007 |
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For your information
When I started OpenCores back in 1999, I didn't think it would become as
popular as it is. These days it has on average 80,000 different visitors
every month and 7.5M web hits. More than 10,000 companies have downloaded
from OpenCores. However it is time to take OpenCores to a new level, from
which both users and developers would benefit.
It is time for some major change. My intention is to sell the web site to an
industry leader in semiconductor or EDA industry. The idea is to find a
strategic partner, whose core business is not competing with OpenCores
activities. This strategic partner should be in the right business so that
the partnership with OpenCores would create a synergy effect from which both
the partner company and OpenCores would benefit.
This could mean a number of benefits for OpenCores developers. Partnership
with an ASIC vendor or a semiconductor foundry could enable developers to
prototype/silicon prove IP in silicon, while partnership with an EDA company
could provide access to the latest EDA semiconductor tools. Partnership with
an FPGA vendor could mean access to FPGA boards and tools.
Partner company should also invest certain amount of funds to make OpenCores
more professional organization, resulting in new business models for
developers and users. For example, that developers could choose a business
model for distribution of their IP and get financial compensation. Imagine
that developers would be able to put their IP onto silicon MPW every six
months - users would see higher value in such IP and be willing to pay for
such IP - developers getting financial compensation would in return be able
to put more time into development. You can see that this is a self
sustainable model. Of course this is just one example - there are many other
ideas but they all require a serious partner with motivation and financial
backing. An industry leader would be a perfect fit.
The benefits for the users would come from the fact that developers would
have access to new services and resources, which means positive consequences
for the quality of IP.
The next step is to get proposals from industry leaders and see what are
their interests. There is going to be a press release about this - however
if you happen to work for a company, such as an ASIC vendor, foundry, EDA
vendor or FPGA vendor, you are welcome to get in contact by emailing
partnership at opencores.org.
kind regards,
Damjan Lampret
Founder OpenCores.org
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The next step in OpenCores evolution
by Unknown on Jun 7, 2007 |
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When I started OpenCores back in 1999, I didn't think it would become as
popular as it is. However it is time to take OpenCores to a new level, from which both users and developers would benefit. It is time for some major change. My intention is to sell the web site to an industry leader in semiconductor or EDA industry. The idea is to find a strategic partner, whose core business is not competing with OpenCores activities. This strategic partner should be in the right business so that the partnership with OpenCores would create a synergy effect from which both the partner company and OpenCores would benefit. My opinion is that this is the best prescription for certain and imminent death of OpenCores as it stands. It could make OpenCores indistinguishable to other sites like open-but-no-so-open-crap, verificationcrapper, etc. It mostly depends on the vendor intentions, and what "partnership" means to them. Could it possibly mean much more taped-out ASICs, FPGA-enabled PCBs etc.? Hopefully, yes, but this would involve a major investment from their side (money , tools, infrastructure and people for coordination or even mentoring). The most important question is under what conditions these IPs (and ASICs) will enter the market. Probably, OpenRISC 1200 and 5-6 other projects from some design houses will have certain success. Anyway OpenCores is your creation and it is up to you. Kind regards Nikolaos Kavvadias PS1: Compensation is a nice vision :) PS2: What about the licensing of the existing OpenCores cores? Will they have e.g. a GPLed version and vendor-endorsed one? |
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The next step in OpenCores evolution
by Unknown on Jun 8, 2007 |
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nkavv at physics.auth.gr escribió:
PS2: What about the licensing of the existing OpenCores cores? Will they have
e.g. a GPLed version and vendor-endorsed one? Only the cores which have been developed by Damjan are his to sell or change the licensing (just for future releases, of course). The rest of the cores have their own licenses unless their developers decide to change it. We have to separate here two things: 1) The SITE opencores.org which belongs to Damjan Lampret, so he can, naturally, do anything he wants with it 2) The CORES which are open because of the license they have been published with, and JUST happen to be uploaded to the site called opencores.org but they will still be "OPEN CORES" ANYWHERE they are. It's its developer the one who decides the license of his/her core. It's just the truth, nothing against Damjan ;-) Best regards, Victor |
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The next step in OpenCores evolution
by Unknown on Jun 8, 2007 |
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Hello All,
I see there are some concerns. Some people are afraid of changes, others see
them as an opportunity for improvement. Without changes there would be no
progress.
I think it would be unwise to jump to conclusions. Therefore my intention is
to wait for feedback from companies, and see what their interests are and
what kind of proposals they have. Based on that I will select a company that
will bring the most benefits to OpenCores community. Until I receive some
solid feedback and see in what direction their proposals are going, I think
any discussion based on speculation will do more harm than good.
regards
Damjan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Damjan Lampret" damjanl at opencores.org>
To: "Discussion list about free open source IP cores" cores at opencores.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2007 12:31 PM
Subject: [oc] The next step in OpenCores evolution
For your information
When I started OpenCores back in 1999, I didn't think it would become as
popular as it is. These days it has on average 80,000 different visitors
every month and 7.5M web hits. More than 10,000 companies have downloaded
from OpenCores. However it is time to take OpenCores to a new level, from
which both users and developers would benefit.
It is time for some major change. My intention is to sell the web site to
an industry leader in semiconductor or EDA industry. The idea is to find a
strategic partner, whose core business is not competing with OpenCores
activities. This strategic partner should be in the right business so that
the partnership with OpenCores would create a synergy effect from which
both the partner company and OpenCores would benefit.
This could mean a number of benefits for OpenCores developers. Partnership
with an ASIC vendor or a semiconductor foundry could enable developers to
prototype/silicon prove IP in silicon, while partnership with an EDA
company could provide access to the latest EDA semiconductor tools.
Partnership with an FPGA vendor could mean access to FPGA boards and
tools.
Partner company should also invest certain amount of funds to make
OpenCores more professional organization, resulting in new business models
for developers and users. For example, that developers could choose a
business model for distribution of their IP and get financial
compensation. Imagine that developers would be able to put their IP onto
silicon MPW every six months - users would see higher value in such IP and
be willing to pay for such IP - developers getting financial compensation
would in return be able to put more time into development. You can see
that this is a self sustainable model. Of course this is just one
example - there are many other ideas but they all require a serious
partner with motivation and financial backing. An industry leader would be
a perfect fit.
The benefits for the users would come from the fact that developers would
have access to new services and resources, which means positive
consequences for the quality of IP.
The next step is to get proposals from industry leaders and see what are
their interests. There is going to be a press release about this - however
if you happen to work for a company, such as an ASIC vendor, foundry, EDA
vendor or FPGA vendor, you are welcome to get in contact by emailing
partnership at opencores.org.
kind regards,
Damjan Lampret
Founder OpenCores.org
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