Welcome to the Free Hardware Foundation (FHF) project web server, www.freehardwarefoundation.org. This organization was founded in 2003. It has the aim of developing free fully detailed hardware specifications, the corresponding VHDL code, whenever possible, the complete drawing of the final chips or modules, and a test suite written in C/C++.
We work with individuals like you who enjoy supporting the Free Hardware Foundation mission: preserve, protect and promote the freedom to use, study, copy, modify, and redistribute free computer hardware specifications, VHDL code, drawings of chips, test suites, etc., and to defend the rights of unlicensed and unpatented hardware concepts (yet copyrighted by all of their rightful authors).
Several companies have recently emitted the idea to protect the hardware more and more to the point of preventing even free software from being created on these new computers using such new hardware. This means removing all freedom from the end users. By supporting the Free Hardware Foundation you can make a difference by enabling smaller companies to create powerful hardware using our free set of archives, and hence giving them a chance to flood the hardware market with high quality chips. In effect, it highly enhance the end user freedom to use computers now and in the future.
If you believe in freedom, you will believe in the Free Hardware Foundation. So please, help us in making this web site and all its documents available on it, be free and stay free for all.
NVidia did an interesting move: it has created a specification for video card used on portable computers. It's called MXM at NVidia. It envisions many manufacturers following this specification in order to help in reducing the costs in link with video drivers for such systems. Also, the end users will beneficiate in that since they will, by themselves, be able to install different boards in their laptop without having to make sure it is compatible. It would be. At this time, this is just a specification, but I suspect NVidia has started following it.
This web site is still under construction. But please, feel free to contact us about any enquiries, request, comment, donation, ideas, help, mirror sites, translation, etc. at the following email address: contact@freehardwarefoundation.org. (if you have problems with that email, please try to email me directly at: fhf@m2osw.com).
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