As you know, the BE-CO-HT section at CERN has been contributing to Kicad for some time now. We see this involvement as a key part of our activities regarding Open Source Hardware [1]. We are also contributing to the adoption of VHDL and System Verilog in the Icarus Verilog simulator, so as to enable cross-language simulation. Other related activities include the operation on the Open Hardware Repository [2] and the development of the CERN Open Hardware License [3]. Regarding our contribution to Ki cad, it took us some time to put our act together, but I believe we are now ready to announce that development has started in earnest. We have come up with a preliminary roadmap [4], which has been discussed with the main Ki cad developers [5]. We have agreed that this strategy is at least a good enough base to start development work.
The main actors involved on our side will be: As you know, the BE-CO-HT section at CERN has been contributing to Ki cad for some time now. We see this involvement as a key part of our activities regarding Open Source Hardware [1]. We are also contributing to the adoption of VHDL and System Verilog in the Icarus Verilog simulator, so as to enable cross-language simulation. Other related activities include the operation on the Open Hardware Repository [2] and the development of the CERN Open Hardware License [3]. Regarding our contribution to Kicad, it took us some time to put our act together, but I believe we are now ready to announce that development has started in earnest. Read More: kicad-developers team mailing list archive