ANTMICRO
OPEN SOURCE
HARDWARE
PORTAL

Our product design process, based entirely on open source tools, allowed us to build this continuously updated database of popular hardware components and Antmicro’s open hardware boards they were used in, with photorealistic 3D models and rich data. The portal showcases the software-driven, iterative approach to hardware design focused on component reusability.

READY TO USE ELEMENTS

A GROWING LIBRARY FOR EFFICIENT DESIGN

By combining the automatically generated hardware design file releases with the visualization engine, we can provide realistic previews of designs in the making. We can also mock multiple board variants to discuss mechanical arrangements and get the general look and feel of the entire device, even at early design process stages.

Boards

Baseboards, modules and accessories which can be used for prototyping and customization of advanced devices tailored to specific use cases.

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Components

A library of building blocks which allow beautiful visualizations and rapid electronics design.

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OPEN HARDWARE

Opening the hardware design process

The Open Hardware Portal provides users not only with beautiful renders of Antmicro’s designs, but also presents a convenient methodology for PCB design, offering an ever-growing, continuously updated collection of schematics, Bills of Materials and Blender models.

BILL OF MATERIALS

Open source BOMs give designers and manufacturers more transparency and reduce the risk of errors in the manufacturing process by keeping track of components and their potential counterparts.

SCHEMATICS

Open source schematics can be useful for both electronics enthusiasts and professionals, in PCB design education, modification or device replication, especially in collaborative environments.

STACKUP VIEW

By looking at PCB design in the smallest detail, you gain a deep understanding of the board's structure and operation, which you can then use to optimize designs, identify potential issues, and ensure high product quality.

TOOLS

OPEN SOURCE TOOLING

The Open Hardware Portal takes advantage of Antmicro’s hardware design flow, fully based on open source tools which enables versatile prototyping in a collaborative cross-team environment.

KICAD

With a plethora of helper tools and scripts and a powerful, scalable infrastructure, the KiCad open source hardware design suite is one of the staples of Antmicro’s flow.

BLENDER

We take a step further using Blender, the wildly successful open source 3D creation tool, which combined with the rest of the flow, lets us visualize hardware designs at every step of the way.

AUTOMATION

DESIGN FLOW AUTOMATION

The CI-driven, open source tooling-based flow allows us to easily create sophisticated, traceable designs containing always up-to-date assets and can be adopted for entire families of hardware designs and integrated with cloud or internal infrastructure.

KICAD-BLENDER FLOW

In KiCad, we can determine the locations and rotations of any components on the PCB, and then interact with the Blender API via Python scripts to automatically construct a scene and save the complete board in a .blend file.

CI-DRIVEN HARDWARE DESIGN FLOW

The CI-driven hardware design flow, automated releases, and version tracking enable flexibility and rapid development capacities as well as an unprecedented ability to collaborate across teams.

CONTACT

If you are interested in developing hardware solutions using a comprehensive, automated, open source flow in a collaborative, iterative environment, reach out to us by filling in the form.

WRITE TO US:  contact@antmicro.com