Open Hardware at CERN in practice: electronics

Friday 9 May 2025, 14:00 → 17:00 Europe/Zurich

503/1-001 - Council Chamber (CERN)

The CERN Open Source Program Office (OSPO) invites you to a half-day event which will provide a complete picture of the journey from idea to commercial Open Source Hardware (OSHW) at CERN. The target audience is electronics designers, and anybody with an interest in OSHW at CERN and elsewhere. This event will focus on Printed Circuit Board (PCB) design, manufacturing, test and interaction with companies for procurement and commercialisation.

1 Welcome and introduction

Speaker: Javier Serrano (CERN)

2 KiCad: a Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) tool for Printed Circuit Board (PCB) design

Speaker: Roberto Fernandez Bautista (CERN)

3 The CERN Electronics Design Office

Speaker: Raphael Berberat (CERN)

4 IT support for Electronics Design Automation (EDA) tools

Speaker: Christos Gentsos (CERN (IT-CA-GES))

5 The Open Hardware Repository

Speaker: Dimitris Lampridis (CERN)

15:10 Coffee break

6 Knowledge Transfer (KT) at CERN and Open Hardware

Speaker: Benjamin Frisch (CERN)

7 The CERN Open Hardware Licence

Speaker: Dane Tacchini (CERN)

8 Support for Open Hardware in CERN's Open Source Program Office (OSPO)

Speaker: Hamza Boukabache (CERN)

9 Procurement of Open Hardware

Speaker: Josh Davison (CERN)

10 Putting it all together: radiation-tolerant lighting in CERN's Proton Synchrotron (PS)

Speaker: James Devine (CERN)

11 Putting it all together: White Rabbit

Speaker: Adam Artur Wujek

12 Discussion session

Speaker: Evangelia Gousiou (CERN)