Eclipse ThreadX and RISC-V Advance the Open Embedded Stack
At OCX 2026, the Eclipse Foundation highlighted the growing role of open source in embedded and IoT development, with Eclipse ThreadX and RISC-V at the center of the conversation.
At OCX 2026, the Eclipse Foundation highlighted the growing role of open source in embedded and IoT development, with Eclipse ThreadX and RISC-V at the center of the conversation.
See OpenHW Foundation at Latch-Up on Friday to Sunday May 1–3, 2026 in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. The Latch-Up conference is a weekend of presentations and networking dedicated to free and open source silicon. It’s an event for the open source digital design community, much like its European sister conference ORConf, run by the FOSSi Foundation.
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!
My involvement with the Eclipse Foundation came through the OpenHW Group, which was created in 2019 as an independent non-profit but worked closely with Eclipse Foundation processes, such as the contributor agreement. I became a committer around 2020 when the group operated as a project within the Eclipse Foundation ecosystem.
Thales built a precise performance model for the CVA6 RISC-V core to evaluate changes before touching RTL. The model achieved COREMARK performance results that were within 0.8% of the RTL, uncovering performance bottlenecks and informing the design of a dual-issue CVA6 core.
Outcome? A 40% performance boost with just +7% power and +11% area. This shows how modeling can transform open hardware development.
According to the Chinese Zodiac, we’ve entered the year of the fire horse, a time traditionally associated with forward momentum, freedom, endurance, and success. Whether you subscribe to the Chinese Zodiac or not, this year is already shaping up to be a momentous one for RISC-V and the OpenHW Foundation.
Join the OpenHW Foundation and Eclipse Foundation at “OpenChain and Friends” is an in-person community event focused on open source software supply chain management, compliance, and collaboration. It’s organized by the OpenChain Project in partnership with local and international communities, such as The FOSS-LÄND Community. The event takes place in Stuttgart, Germany and gathers people working with open source across different industries.
The Eclipse Foundation had a lot to cover at Embedded World 2026 in Nuremberg, and most of it pointed in the same direction: open source is no longer just for hobbyists and startups. It’s moving into automotive, aerospace, and industrial applications where safety certification and regulatory compliance are non-negotiable realities.
Florian Wohlrab, Head of OpenHW Foundation presents a talk “Enabling Open Source RISC-V Designs For Commercial Use” as part of EFCL Seminar series at ETH Zurich.
More on the Unified RISC-V IP Access Platform – at hashtag#HiPEAC26, Cairo Caplan explained how giving engineers, researchers, startups, and many more access to RISC-V components will help build out the ecosystem and drive innovation.