The open-source hardware revolution is descending upon Bologna, Italy, and the OpenHW Foundation is proud to be at the heart of the action. From June 8–12, 2026, the RISC-V Summit Europe will serve as the premier gathering for industry leaders, and OpenHW is participating as a Silver Sponsor to showcase our latest advancements in verified, industrial-grade processor cores.
Ainekko, a startup focused on open AI infrastructure, has contributed its CORE-ET Silicon Platform (ETSP) to the OpenHW Foundation, a RISC-V-centric open hardware initiative hosted under the Eclipse Foundation. The platform combines a many-core 64-bit RISC-V processor architecture, MRAM-based intelligent memory, and open developer tooling designed specifically for low-power AI inference at the edge.
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.
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.
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.
The Eclipse Foundation, one of the world’s largest open source software foundations, will highlight the accelerating role of open source in embedded systems and IoT at embedded world 2026, taking place March 10–12 in Nuremberg, Germany.
In this article, Florian Wohlrab, head of the OpenHW Foundation, introduces us to a first-of-its-kind collection of EU-developed RISC-V components, giving industry and academia access to verified, industry-ready semiconductor intellectual property (IP) from leading European contributors.
High Performance, Minimal Power: How OpenHW Foundation’s CV32E20X core and CV-X-IF interface helped unlock performance and efficiency gains in AI, image, and signal processing for Synthara.
