Jimmy W. A. Smith Announces the Open Hardware Conformance Standard (OHCS)

Electrical Engineer and Clarkson University graduate Jimmy Willard Anthony Smith today announced the release of the Open Hardware Conformance Standard (OHCS), a fully open-source, vendor-neutral specification for mixed-signal finite state controllers used in power electronics, PLC systems, and advanced microsystems.

OHCS defines a complete digital + analog control architecture — including FSM, PWM, DSP control law, ADC interface, analog conditioning, and SMPS plant modeling — along with a rigorous KPI-based certification process.

“OHCS solves a real supply-chain problem. It gives vendors a clear, open, quantitative way to prove their controllers meet the same performance and stability requirements — whether they're building FPGAs, ASICs, SPLDs, CPLDs, GPUs, or photonic-hybrid devices.”