Contribute to OpenSPARC

OpenSPARC is an open source project and contributions from the community are essential to its growth and success. Contributing is easy and you can give as little or as much time as you want. Take the code, implement your ideas, and propose a new design. Today's UltraSPARC solution is just the beginning... Anyone can contribute on any level and here are just a few ways you can get started:

Answer Questions on the Forums

OpenSPARC forum users helping one another is one of the ways to help our community. Registering on the forum is quick and easy, and you can get started right away helping people just like you.

Float your ideas

Join the announcement and/or the general mailing list. Or if you're interested in a particularly project, join the project mailing list. Write a blog related to opensparc and send an email to: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it to request your page to be listed.

Post your notes

If you are studying chip design at a university or research lab, and you have some interesting notes, post them to the forums, post them to the wiki and/or submit them to the University Page by using our contact form.

Contribute your code

If you have some code - either binary or source - that others can use, submit your contribution to the Cool Tools project. Remember, you must provide a license for the code and agree to the Terms of Participation. If your contribution includes source code, you must also sign a Contributor Agreement.

Join a project

Take a look our projects and join one.

Start a project

Do you have project already started or an idea for one that is related/connected to OpenSPARC, then we have a place where we can host it for you. Take a look at Starting a project.

Share your Course Material

Collaborate and share course material related to OpenSPARC, chip multi-threading, multi-core in many areas including hardware design, design tools, CMT Architecture, software systems design, operating systems, concurrent computing and other related areas.  We're looking for professors who have a passion for teaching and contributing to their field of study by sharing their course material with others. Take a look at site we are developing and the course materials already available: http://wiki.opensparc.net/bin/view.pl/CourseMaterial.