Opencores' main objective is to design and publish core designs under a license for hardware modelled
on the Lesser General Public License (LGPL) for software. They are committed to the ideal of freely
available, freely usable and re-usable open source hardware.
They have set the following objectives as the means of reaching their main objective:
Develop standards for open source cores and platforms
Create tools and methods for development of open source cores and platforms
Develop open source cores and platforms Provide documentation for these cores and platforms
These tools and methods should allow teams to develop hardware in an open way.
The Open RISC embedded processor platform shows both the
features and full development platform available from OpenCores. The open source, Open RISC
1200 processor is highlighted along with the complete GNU development tool chain
including a running applications and booting Linux.
