20 x Open Source

Developers of embedded systems should be aware that there is a wide range of open source programs, programming tools and hardware platforms now available. Not only do you save the cost of a user licence but the forums are an ideal learning resource. We asked some engineers which products they rated.

www.opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical
www.openmoko.org
www.gnuradio.org
www.ixbat.de
www.sics.se/~adam/uip
www.sics.se/~adam/lwip/
www.fourwalledcubicle.com/LUFA.php
www.das-labor.org/wiki/AVR-Crypto-Lib/en
www.freertos.org
www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot
www.microsoft.com/netmf/default.mspx
www.eclipse.org
www.elektor.com/060018
www.kdevelop.org
www.pnotepad.org
www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen
www.yagarto.de
http://arduino.cc
http://kicad.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php
http://fab.cba.mit.edu
http://wiki.sikken.nl/index.php?title=LPCUSB
http://efsl.be
http://winmerge.org/
http://ttssh2.sourceforge.jp
http://gcc.gnu.org
http://winavr.sourceforge.net