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.
Speaking at the show, Frédéric Desbiens, Senior Manager, Embedded and IoT at Eclipse Foundation, walked through several threads that have accelerated since last year. The Open Hardware Foundation, which the Eclipse Foundation absorbed as an official working group, has added nine new members since December alone. The mission remains focused on providing industrial-grade, verified RISC-V processor cores and supporting IP. The headline contribution at the show came from Thales, which announced it would contribute a dual-lockstep variant of the CVA6 core. Two cores running identical software in lockstep, with automatic failover if one fails, which is exactly the kind of redundancy architecture automotive and safety-critical markets require. “From a European perspective, it’s great to see this,” Desbiens said. “Those French guys are still going strong with us.”
