The OpenHW Foundation is thrilled to announce that lowRISC, a pioneer in the open source semiconductor and RISC-V landscape, has joined our growing community as a participant member!
lowRISC® is leading the charge with the OpenTitan® silicon Root-of-Trust project, which ingeniously incorporates the robust Ibex® RISC-V Core that, like CVA6, originated from ETH Zurich. This Intellectual Property along with its comprehensive documentation and rigorous verification processes meet the highest standards—exactly the level of excellence we pursue here at OpenHW.
Their commitment to quality is already evident in the market, as the OpenTitan IP is already shipping in commercial devices! It’s currently found in new Chromebooks and Google plans to use them in data centers. Ibex and OpenTitan IP have been deployed in other commercial open source projects like Caliptra, and multiple SoCs, which demonstrates a robust commercial use case all the way from technology giants like Google and Microsoft to startups.
Through their COSMIC project and the release of the CHERI Mocha reference Secure Enclave design, lowRISC is extending their reach into higher performance systems. COSMIC uses the CVA6-CHERI derivative of the OpenHW CVA6 processor.
This exciting step forward, working now in close collaboration, allows us to powerfully leverage each other’s strengths! Most importantly, it paves the way to bring OpenHW RISC-V cores into other fully open source projects! This collaboration is a win for the entire community and further solidifies the power of open collaboration in the RISC-V ecosystem.
Please join us in giving a warm welcome to the lowRISC team and stay tuned for what we work on!
