OpenCores is a loose collection of people who are interested in developing hardware, with a similar ethos to the free software movement. Currently the emphasis is on digital modules called ''cores'', since FPGAs have reduced the incremental cost of a core to approximately zero. Activity is centered around the opencores web site
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