The Open Graphics Project

The Open Graphics Project (OGP) is developing graphics cards with fully published specs and open source drivers.

7 July 2008 Announcement: The Non Profit Open Hardware Foundation is now accepting donations. Donations allow the OHF to support open hardware projects, free software, and open source causes and the Foundation's initial focus is to facilitate production of the OGD1 hardware prototype card. Yes, your donations can help assist our OGP graphic card developers to purchase and develop on an ODG1 development board. There is a bright yellow donate button on the OHF homepage. If you want to help toward building an open graphics card please use it frequently. :)

21 May 2008 Announcement: OGD1 is ready for pre-orders. The first 100 pre-orders get a $100 discount and free accessories (programming cable that retails for $65).

• The order page: http://www.traversaltech.com/store.phtml
• The Traversal Technology FAQ: http://www.traversaltech.com/ogd1p_faq2.phtml
• The product info page: http://www.traversaltech.com/products.phtml

This board is for Hardware developers. As soon as enough boards have been ordered, production will start and coding will move even faster with developers working on their own development boards. We looked far and wide for a suitable board, and in the end we had to make our own. This board was designed to have enough outputs so that it can be used for other projects as well.

If you want to promote Open Graphics, you can donate to the Open Hardware Foundation, because they will sponsor discounts on this board for serious Open Graphics developers.

Artwork Released
A major defining moment of the Open Graphics Project is rapidly approaching: The final schematic and bill-of-materials for OGD1 are finally out, and the artwork is in progress.

You can find the schematic and BoM here:

• Schematic
• Bill of Materials

Documentation progress, Learning HDL, Keeping an eye on the competition and more...
Open Graphics Newsletter OGPN25

• About OGP explains who we are and what we do.
• Newsletters
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Press about the project

OGP Development

• OGD1 the Open Graphics Development board, series 1 the Current Open Graphics Card Under Development
• OGD1 Components Guide
• OGC1 Future Graphics Card Feature List
• Documentation contains requirements, specification, and other project documentation.
• VGA Code Sprint to finish VGA
• Ideas for projects.

Verilog Lessons - By Tim

• Introduction to Verilog
• Verilog Lesson 1 - Signals
• Verilog Lesson 2 - Arithmetic/Logic Operators
• Verilog Lesson 3 - Combinatorial logic expressed behaviorally
• Verilog Lesson 4 - Sequential Logic

Community Resources

• Mailing List (SVN Commit) (Announcements)
• Contributing to OGP
• Development Tools (subversion, HDL tools, etc)
• HDL Resources (logical circuits, Verilog, etc)
• The Open Graphics Project SVN repository (Important: Subversion Commit Policy )
• Traversal Technology, LLC Homepage
• Open Hardware Foundation Homepage

Français:Open-Graphics
German: Open-Graphics