OpenTitan® Partnership Makes History as First Open-Source Silicon Project to Reach Commercial Availability
Definitive Project Success is Result of Five Years of Strong Collaboration and Investment by the OpenTitan Coalition to Bring First Trustworthy, Transparent, Secure Silicon Platform to Market
Definitive Project Success is Result of Five Years of Strong Collaboration and Investment by the OpenTitan Coalition to Bring First Trustworthy, Transparent, Secure Silicon Platform to Market
CAMBRIDGE, England – February 13, 2024 – lowRISC C.I.C., the open silicon ecosystem organization, and the OpenTitan coalition today announced a historic milestone as the first open-source silicon project to reach commercial availability, with validated chips in hand. The capstone moment is the result of an unprecedented amount of support and investment by the nine coalition members, including Google, Winbond, Nuvoton, zeroRISC, Rivos, Western Digital, Seagate, ETH Zurich and Giesecke+Devrient, hosted by the non-profit lowRISC CIC.
OpenTitan® – The World’s First Commercial-Grade Open-Source Silicon is Here!
“I am incredibly proud of the OpenTitan partnership for succeeding where every other project has failed – producing the first commercial quality open-source chip in the world,” said Dr. Gavin Ferris, CEO of lowRISC, OpenTitan’s host organization. “This is the culmination of the monumentally hard work of a vibrant and engaged community of contributors focused on a singular goal to achieve what’s never been done before – make open-source silicon work the same way as open-source software. I am grateful for this support and can’t wait for what’s to come.”
Google launched the OpenTitan project together with lowRISC and its partners in 2018 with the goal to make a completely transparent and trustworthy secure silicon platform. It is the world’s first open-source secure chip to include commercial-grade design verification, top-level testing and continuous integration. Capable of serving as the hardware root of trust, OpenTitan ensures that the hardware infrastructure and the software that runs on it remain in their intended, trustworthy state by verifying that the critical system components boot securely using only authorized and verifiable code.
With Google’s support, the project took off from its first year, setting it on a trajectory to make it the most active and successful open-source silicon project in history. Throughout its lifetime, the OpenTitan coalition thrived as an open silicon ecosystem, consistently following a well-defined roadmap from discrete to integrated secure silicon designs. The project partners are deeply engaged in this process, ensuring that the final designs are adaptable to many applications. OpenTitan also has a large and growing community of contributors beyond its formal partners. As a whole, the community resolves hundreds of pull requests and issues monthly.
“OpenTitan in silicon is the realization of many years of dedication and hard work from our team. It is a significant moment for us and all contributors to the project,” emphasized Miguel Osorio, OpenTitan Lead at Google.
This major milestone follows a series of significant successes for the OpenTitan project in 2023. Most critically, the project also accomplished the first discrete silicon tapeout in June 2023. In November 2023, the project coalition announced the first SoC secure execution environment, including RoT functionality, which has enabled coalition partners to embed OpenTitan in their SoC and chiplet designs.
Supporting Quotes from OpenTitan Members
“We’ve been privileged to work closely with our OpenTitan coalition partners from early on and are even prouder now to bring the first ‘EarlGrey’ OpenTitan chip design to market, demonstrating our leadership in open, secure ICs,” said Erez Naory, VP of Client and Security Products at Nuvoton. “Open-source secure silicon is now proven as a radical leap forward in solving the market’s need for a truly trustworthy foundation.”
“Our mission is to advance the incredible work of the OpenTitan project by delivering an end-to-end supply chain security solution built on an open secure silicon foundation,” said Dom Rizzo, zeroRISC CEO. “That we’re able to deliver commercial products so soon after tapeout clearly illustrates the coalition’s momentum. With this first, crucial step for open silicon implementations, we look forward to a world where a transparent and trustworthy supply chain is the default.”
“The rigor at the heart of the OpenTitan project’s roadmap has ensured the success of this first-of-its-kind, silicon-proven integrated design,” said Tung-Yi Chan, Vice Chairman and Deputy CEO at Winbond. “By proving the viability of securely integrating certified IPs, OpenTitan opens up new possibilities for SoC vendors. Winbond supports the OpenTitan initiative with its certified Secure Flash solutions.”
“We’ve benefited tremendously from the collaborative relationships within the OpenTitan partnership,” said Mark Hayter, Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Rivos Inc. “It’s made it easy for us to share our SoC experience to help the coalition provide silicon-proven IP that enables us to integrate RoT into our chiplets.”
“Seagate is a proud consortium member and contributor of the OpenTitan project,” according to Ed Gage, VP of Seagate Research. “Both the open-source IP and the OpenTitan chip will set a new baseline for hardware-based security. Seagate considers this high-quality security IP a key enabler of both enhanced storage device integrity and data protection.”
“It has been a privilege for Giesecke+Devrient to contribute to the success of OpenTitan so far, as we believe that a secure IP block based on OpenTitan will enable smooth, fast and cost-effective integration into larger SoCs, unlocking a host of new use cases, especially in the IoT ecosystem,” says Bernd Müller, Head of Connectivity and IoT Portfolio Strategy at Giesecke+Devrient. “With G+D’s trusted embedded operating systems pre-integrated on OpenTitan coupled with our broad portfolio of IoT and connectivity solutions, we are excited for the opportunity this provides us to support customers and projects in this emerging ecosystem.”
The OpenTitan coalition continues to work in unison to accelerate the project’s momentum. Upcoming key milestones include the full production release of the “Darjeeling” integrated OpenTitan secure extension environment (SEE) and the first production release of “Chai,” the integrated OpenTitan SEE with support for secure external flash. In addition, the project will release an updated discrete “EarlGrey” chip design, with additional coverage and development.
About lowRISC
Founded in 2014 at the University of Cambridge Department of Computer Science and Technology, lowRISC is a not-for-profit company/CIC that provides a neutral home for collaborative engineering to develop and maintain open-source silicon designs and tools for the long term. The lowRISC not-for-profit structure combined with full-stack engineering capabilities in-house enables the hosting and management of high-quality projects like OpenTitan via the Silicon Commons approach.
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zeroRISC, Nuvoton and Winbond Join Forces to Deliver the First Commercial Product Based on the OpenTitan® Open-Source Secure Silicon Platform
Building on the Historic Success of the OpenTitan Project, Nuvoton and zeroRISC Make First Commercial Chip Based on Open-Source Silicon RoT Available Through Early Access Program; Winbond and zeroRISC Co-Developing First Commercial OpenTitan-based Integrated Secure Execution Environment
Building on the Historic Success of the OpenTitan Project, Nuvoton and zeroRISC Make First Commercial Chip Based on Open-Source Silicon RoT Available Through Early Access Program; Winbond and zeroRISC Co-Developing First Commercial OpenTitan-based Integrated SEE
BOSTON – February 13, 2024 – zeroRISC, a provider of commercial cloud security services for open-source secure silicon, and Nuvoton Technology Corporation, an affiliate of Winbond Electronics Corporation and a leader in the secure IC market, today announced the availability of the first open-source, commercial chip built on the OpenTitan® secure silicon design. The new chip brings truly trustworthy secure silicon capable of serving as a root of trust (RoT) to the marketplace and is being made commercially available via early access through a partnership with Nuvoton and Winbond.
This release is in conjunction with today’s historic announcement by lowRISC and the OpenTitan coalition as the first open-source silicon design to reach commercial availability. Since its inception in 2018, zeroRISC, Nuvoton and Winbond have worked closely within the OpenTitan project to develop and ensure the success of the project’s first-of-its-kind silicon-proven design.
“Until now, nearly all connected devices have been built without true foundational security and so are open to stealthy cyberattacks both in the silicon supply chain and after deployment in the field,” said Dominic Rizzo, founder and CEO of zeroRISC. “By partnering with Nuvoton, Winbond and other coalition partners to produce the first commercial-grade open-source chip in the world, we’re delivering on the promise of the OpenTitan project and democratizing access to open, trustworthy foundational security.”
While conventional security starts at the operating system (OS) layer, the most sophisticated, pernicious and stealthy cyberattacks target the firmware layer below it and the hardware on which it runs. As such, truly trustworthy security must start below the OS with secure silicon like OpenTitan® and secure-by-design firmware. Since its founding in April 2023, zeroRISC has focused on open-source development of production-quality OpenTitan-based discrete secure chips as well as secure silicon subsystems that are easily integrated into third-party systems on a chip (SoCs) and chiplets.
In partnership with Nuvoton, zeroRISC makes the discrete OpenTitan® chip commercially available to key markets such as Internet of Things (IoT) and critical infrastructure via an early access program. The chip is based on the “Earl Grey” OpenTitan discrete chip design that achieved tapeout in mid-2023 and will play a crucial role in ensuring the integrity of devices ranging from motherboards and network cards to laptops, phones, and IoT platforms. It serves as the foundation for security services and brings the ready-made benefits of a hardware RoT to these devices.
“Open, trustworthy foundational security has become a ‘must-have,’ not a ‘nice-to-have,’” said Erez Naory, VP of Client and Security Products at Nuvoton. “As a leader in providing best-in-class security IC solutions, our focus in working with zeroRISC and the OpenTitan coalition has been to bring value to our customers through an open-source hardware approach. We’re proud to jointly deliver this to the market today through the first commercial-grade open-source chip.”
Beyond the commercial availability of the discrete chip, Winbond and zeroRISC are actively engaged with the OpenTitan coalition on the joint development of the first OpenTitan-based integrated secure execution environment (SEE). Scheduled for production release later this year, the integrated SEE underscores the coalition’s shared commitment to advancing transparency and trustworthiness in silicon. Additionally, Winbond and zeroRISC are working closely to introduce the integrated OpenTitan SEE equipped with comprehensive support for secure external flash.
“As the worldwide leading supplier in the code storage Flash memory, ensuring the security of the supply chain and transparency and trustworthiness of our Secure Flash products is paramount to us,” said Tung-Yi Chan, Vice Chairman and Deputy CEO at Winbond. “Our early involvement in the OpenTitan project underscores our commitment to advancing open silicon initiatives, recognizing their potential to revolutionize the secure hardware industry. We take great pride in being a core member of this groundbreaking project that produced the first commercially available open-source chip, paving the way for future integrated secure solutions.”
zeroRISC has found a way to democratize silicon security with the launch of this new commercial chip, according to TIRIAS Research Founder and Principal Analyst Jim McGregor. “As more sophisticated threat actors increasingly target critical infrastructure, firmware and the supply chain, zeroRISC can better protect billions of connected devices with stronger security that begins below the operating system, bolstered by hardware root of trust technology. This comes at a time when widespread global regulation – including the Biden-Harris Cybersecurity Strategy and the Cyber Resilience Act – highlight vendor responsibility and liability in the event of escalating cyber attacks and breaches,” said McGregor.
For more information about early access availability of the first open-source chip built on the OpenTitan secure silicon design, visit zerorisc.com/OT-interest.
About zeroRISC
Built on the OpenTitan open-source silicon root of trust project, zeroRISC is the first commercial cloud security service for silicon that delivers transparency and reliability for data centers and ICS/OT, IoT and edge devices. The zeroRISC platform is the only all-in-one drop-in silicon, software and services solution that delivers trustworthy, cloud-based secure device management below the operating system, while making secure ownership transfer straightforward. Headquartered in Boston, MA, zeroRISC is backed by Cambridge Angels and is a member of and contributor to the OpenTitan project. For more information, visit https://zerorisc.com/.
About Nuvoton
Nuvoton Technology Corporation (Nuvoton) was founded to bring innovative semiconductor solutions to the market. Nuvoton was spun-off as a Winbond Electronics affiliate in July 2008 and went public in September 2010 on the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TWSE). Nuvoton focuses on the development of microcontroller, microprocessor, smart home, cloud security IC, battery monitoring IC, components, visual sensing and IoT with security. The company has a strong market share in Industrial, Automotive, Communication, Consumer and Computer markets. Nuvoton owns 6-inch wafer fabs equipped with diversified processing technologies to provide professional wafer foundry services. Nuvoton provides products with a high performance/cost ratio for its customers by leveraging flexible technology, advanced design capability, and integration of digital and analog technologies. Nuvoton values long term relationships with its partners and customers and is dedicated to continuous innovation of its products, processes, and services. Nuvoton has established subsidiaries in the USA, China, Israel, India, Singapore, Korea and Japan to strengthen regional customer support and global management. For more information, please visit https://www.nuvoton.com
About Winbond
Winbond Electronics Corporation is a leading global supplier of semiconductor memory solutions. The Company provides customer-driven memory solutions backed by the expert capabilities of product design, R&D, manufacturing, and sales services. Winbond’s product portfolio, consisting of Specialty DRAM, Mobile DRAM, Code Storage Flash, and TrustME® Secure Flash, is widely used by tier-1 customers in communication, consumer electronics, automotive and industrial, and computer peripheral markets. Winbond is headquartered in Central Taiwan Science Park (CTSP), and it has subsidiaries in the USA, Japan, Israel, China, Hong Kong, and Germany. Based on Taichung and Kaohsiung 12-inch fabs in Taiwan, Winbond keeps pace to develop in-house technologies to provide high-quality memory IC products.
OpenTitan® Partnership Announces First Public Secure Execution Environment for Integrated
Open Silicon Coalition Rapidly Develops Integrated Secure Execution Environment with the Silicon Commons Ecosystem
Open Silicon Coalition Rapidly Develops Integrated Secure Execution Environment with the Silicon Commons Ecosystem
CAMBRIDGE, England and BOSTON – November 13, 2023 – lowRISC C.I.C., the open silicon ecosystem organization, and zeroRISC, the first provider of commercial cloud security services for open silicon, today announced the early release of the first SoC secure execution environment, including root of trust (RoT) functionality, as part of the OpenTitan project. This major milestone comes only six months after the tapeout of OpenTitan’s first discrete design, demonstrating significant momentum for all participating partners. The design was developed with contributions from partners including Google, Winbond, Rivos, Giesecke & Devrient and zeroRISC and is now available under the permissive Apache 2 license for further innovation and exploitation, lowering the cost of core silicon security technology.
Since 2018, the OpenTitan coalition has been focused on creating an open silicon ecosystem by consistently following a well-defined roadmap from discrete to integrated secure silicon designs. The project partners are deeply engaged in this process, ensuring that the final designs are adaptable to many applications. OpenTitan also has a large and growing community of contributors beyond its formal partners. Together, these community participants open and resolve hundreds of pull requests and issues monthly, making OpenTitan the industry’s most active open-source silicon project.
“We need an integrated RoT for our SoCs,” said Mark Hayter, Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Rivos Inc. “The collaborative relationships within the OpenTitan partnership enabled us to share our SoC and security experience. The result is a robust architecture and codebase for integrating OpenTitan into chiplets.”
“Reaching this landmark milestone is yet another proof point of OpenTitan’s significance, not just as an open RoT, but a complete open-source silicon design ecosystem rapidly adaptable to many use cases,” said Dominic Rizzo, founder and CEO of zeroRISC and OpenTitan Project Director. “zeroRISC is proud to be a lead partner investing in this effort’s long term success. As we are already helping with commercial integrations, this design further accelerates zeroRISC’s mission of delivering a set of secure cloud-based services for device security and management built on a trustworthy, transparent, secure silicon platform.”
This announcement comes on the heels of a series of significant milestones for the OpenTitan project this year. While developing the architecture and specifications for the integrated secure execution environment, the project also accomplished the first discrete silicon tapeout in June 2023, a critical precursor to commercial silicon availability in 2024. The implementation of the integrated design being made available today enables OpenTitan partners to move towards embedding OpenTitan® in their SoC and chiplet designs.
This ability to execute on multiple threads simultaneously is a concrete demonstration of the value of the Silicon Commons™ approach, which requires thorough design verification collateral, documentation and continuous testing. Originally built by OpenTitan contributors to support distributed open silicon collaboration, the Silicon Commons has evolved into a comprehensive open-source silicon development methodology to enable many disparate organizations to concurrently work together on shared goals.
“OpenTitan stands tall as the pioneer and leader in open-source silicon. Its remarkable maturity in design, verification and documentation, accumulated over years of dedicated effort, sets it apart from emerging projects,” said Gavin Ferris, CEO of lowRISC. “OpenTitan has continuously evolved, guided by a well-developed roadmap and fueled by a vibrant and engaged community of contributors.”
The integrated design is just one of the latest milestones for OpenTitan, and its journey from inception to its current state of growth and security proves its exceptional capabilities and potential to shape the future of secure silicon. As more businesses embrace the project, the open and collaborative spirit of OpenTitan will continue to foster innovation and drive advancements in secure hardware design. The success of OpenTitan serves as an inspiration to the tech community, demonstrating the power of open source to fuel rapid innovation, particularly in traditionally slow-moving domains like silicon.
About lowRISC
Founded in 2018 at the University of Cambridge Computer Lab, lowRISC is a not-for-profit company/CIC that provides a neutral home for collaborative engineering to develop and maintain open-source silicon designs and tools for the long term. The lowRISC not-for-profit structure combined with full-stack engineering capabilities in-house enables the hosting and management of high-quality projects like OpenTitan via the Silicon Commons approach.
About zeroRISC
Leveraging the OpenTitan open-source silicon root of trust, zeroRISC is the first commercial cloud security service for silicon that delivers transparency and reliability for data centers and ICS/OT, IoT and edge devices. The zeroRISC platform is an all-in-one, drop-in silicon, software and services solution that delivers trustworthy, cloud-based secure device management below the operating system. Headquartered in Boston, MA, zeroRISC is backed by Cambridge Angels and is a member of the OpenTitan project.
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zeroRISC Launches with $5 Million in Seed Funding to Deliver First Commercial OpenTitan®-based Cloud Security Service for Silicon
Funding round led by Cambridge Angels and other private investors; Nuvoton becomes first commercial integration partner; Company joins OpenTitan project
Funding round led by Cambridge Angels and other private investors; Nuvoton becomes first commercial integration partner; Company joins OpenTitan project
BOSTON – October 30, 2023 – zeroRISC today formally launched with $5 million in seed funding led by Cambridge Angels, a leading network of U.K. angel investors, including Hermann Hauser, director at Amadeus Capital Partners, and Pete Hutton, former Arm President of Product Groups, with participation by other private investors. Rajat Malhotra of Wren Capital and Pete Hutton co-led the deal on behalf of Cambridge Angels. The funding will be used to deliver the first commercial cloud security service for silicon built on the OpenTitan® open-source silicon root of trust (RoT) project. The company also announced that it joined the OpenTitan project.
Founded in April 2023 and comprised of original OpenTitan project team members from Google, including founder and CEO Dominic Rizzo, zeroRISC will provide a cloud security service for silicon that delivers transparency and trustworthiness for data centers and ICS/OT, IoT and edge devices. The zeroRISC platform is the only all-in-one, drop-in silicon, software and services solution that delivers trustworthy, cloud-based secure device management below the operating system while making secure ownership transfer straightforward. The company is working with multiple commercial integration partners, including Nuvoton.
OpenTitan is the world’s first open-source digital design for silicon RoT to include commercial-grade design verification, top-level testing and continuous integration (CI). The silicon RoT ensures that the hardware infrastructure and the software that runs on it remain in their intended, trustworthy state by verifying that the critical system components boot securely using only authorized and verifiable code. As the latest official member of the OpenTitan project, the zeroRISC team played a critical role in the first discrete silicon tapeout and is driving efforts to validate that first chip and bring it to commercial production.
“With cybersecurity liability shifting from end users to manufacturers, truly trustworthy security leveraging the OpenTitan drop-in design represents a massive commercial opportunity,” said Pete Hutton, zeroRISC investor. “The team at zeroRISC is unmatched and we immediately recognized its potential to significantly disrupt a highly proprietary industry. We look forward to supporting the team in realizing long-term success through commercial utility and broad adoption.”
With this funding, zeroRISC is focused on open-source development of production-quality discrete and integrated RoTs from OpenTitan ecosystem components, a proprietary integration kit for the integrated RoT, a secure-by-default and secure-by-design embedded operating system (OS), and a set of proprietary cloud-based services that tie into the secure OS and secure silicon designs. The first discrete open market chip from zeroRISC is hardened against physical attacks, supports post-quantum secure boot and has been designed from the beginning to meet commercially relevant certification guidelines.
“No system can be secure at the operating system level. The safest and most secure systems start with open secure silicon and provide assurances upon that trustworthy foundation,” said Dominic Rizzo, founder and CEO of zeroRISC. “Our mission is to advance the incredible work of the OpenTitan project by delivering a set of secure cloud-based services for device security and management built upon a transparent, trustworthy, secure silicon platform that makes secure transfer of ownership a reality. In doing so, we’re extending zero trust principles below the operating system and back into the supply chain.”
“As a leader in the market of secured computing, we see demand for silicon RoT solutions significantly increasing,” said Erez Naory, VP of Client and Security Products at Nuvoton. “While OpenTitan has proven itself as the most transparent silicon foundation, we believe the key to adoption, on top of Nuvoton’s robust and secure implementation, is value-multiplying software and services. We’re excited to partner with zeroRISC to deliver the first concrete demonstration of OpenTitan’s potential through a complete end-to-end solution to address today’s most complex security problems.”
About Cambridge Angels
Cambridge Angels is a group of more than 60 high-net-worth investors who have proven experience as successful entrepreneurs. Members invest in and mentor high-quality start-up and early-stage companies in Cambridge, London, Oxford and throughout the UK. Typical funding requirements that Cambridge Angels meet are in the range of £150k to £1.5m – although it is worth noting that several of our portfolio companies have raised significant follow-on funding from our Members and our venture capital partners over several funding rounds.
About zeroRISC
Built on the OpenTitan open-source silicon root of trust project, zeroRISC is the first commercial cloud security service for silicon that delivers transparency and reliability for data centers and ICS/OT, IoT and edge devices. The zeroRISC platform is the only all-in-one drop-in silicon, software and services solution that delivers trustworthy, cloud-based secure device management below the operating system, while making secure ownership transfer straightforward. Headquartered in Boston, MA, zeroRISC is backed by Cambridge Angels and is a member of the OpenTitan project.
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lowRISC Announces New OpenTitan Project Partner, zeroRISC
The OpenTitan coalition continues to expand as the technology approaches commercial availability
The OpenTitan coalition continues to expand as the technology approaches commercial availability
CAMBRIDGE, England – October 30, 2023 – lowRISC C.I.C., the open-source silicon ecosystem organization, today announced zeroRISC has joined the OpenTitan project. zeroRISC is a startup focused on providing a cloud security service for silicon that delivers transparency and trustworthiness for data centers and ICS/OT, IoT and edge devices. The company played a key role in accomplishing the first OpenTitan tapeout and is driving efforts to validate the first discrete chip and bring the device to commercial production.
Founded in April 2023, zeroRISC was established by top contributors and original project founders from Google and recently announced $5 million in seed funding led by Cambridge Angels, a leading network of U.K. angel investors. The funding will be used to deliver the first commercial all-in-one drop-in silicon, software and services solution built on the OpenTitan open-source silicon root of trust (RoT) project.
“Our formal membership in the OpenTitan project marks a significant stride towards making open secure silicon a reality,” said Dominic Rizzo, founder and CEO of zeroRISC. “At zeroRISC, we firmly believe that the safest and most secure systems will come to rely on open secure silicon, with trust and assurance built upon OpenTitan’s transparent foundations. We look forward to continuing to work together with all project partners to commercialize the first truly open-source RoT chips, a remarkable achievement for zeroRISC and a powerful testament to the success of the OpenTitan project.”
OpenTitan’s objective is a fundamental change in expectations of transparency for the silicon RoT design: in the same way a silicon RoT is foundational to building secure systems, transparency is foundational to the trustworthiness of that RoT. As the first open-source RoT, OpenTitan has democratized access to a critical component of silicon security aligned with Secure by Design and Secure by Default principles.
As OpenTitan’s non-profit host, lowRISC provides essential open-source governance, technical contributions, and structural support services for all partners. The innovative, open and collaborative methodology developed for the project – the Silicon Commons – has enabled OpenTitan to concretely demonstrate the viability of open-source chip design on par with open-source software. It has empowered diverse partners, including Winbond, Nuvoton, Seagate, Western Digital, Google, and Rivos — and now zeroRISC — to effectively collaborate and bring a critical security technology to the cusp of commercial availability.
“As OpenTitan matures and continues to hit its major implementation milestones, we are excited to welcome partners like zeroRISC, with their wealth of open-source silicon experience, skills and vision to the project,” said Ilia Stolov, General Manager of Winbond Israel. “A truly trustworthy RoT is a critical technology, especially as the regulatory environment continues to shift in favor of certifiably secure solutions for the entire silicon supply chain.”
OpenTitan’s consistent emphasis on high quality design, verification and documentation collateral puts it at the vanguard of commercially relevant open-source silicon. Its adherence to Kerckhoff’s principle stands in sharp contrast to closed RoT implementations, and represents a necessary reset of expectations of transparency in trustworthy, secure silicon.
About lowRISC
Founded in 2018 at the University of Cambridge Computer Lab, lowRISC is a not-for-profit company/CIC that provides a neutral home for collaborative engineering to develop and maintain open source silicon designs and tools for the long term. The lowRISC not-for-profit structure combined with full stack engineering capabilities in-house enables lowRISC to manage high quality projects like OpenTitan.
About zeroRISC
Built on the OpenTitan open-source silicon root of trust project, zeroRISC is the first commercial cloud security service for silicon that delivers transparency and trustworthiness for data centers and ICS/OT, IoT and edge devices. The zeroRISC platform is the only all-in-one drop-in silicon, software and services solution that delivers trustworthy, cloud-based secure device management below the operating system, while making secure ownership transfer straightforward. Headquartered in Boston, MA, zeroRISC is backed by Cambridge Angels and is a member of the OpenTitan project.
About OpenTitan
OpenTitan is the industry’s first open source silicon Root of Trust (RoT) project. Its goal is to make silicon RoT design and implementation more transparent, trustworthy, and secure for enterprises, platform providers, and chip makers. Developed from the start following the principles of high quality, transparency and flexibility, its components form the basis of an open silicon ecosystem and may be flexibly reused and reconfigured under the permissive Apache 2.0 license. OpenTitan top-level designs and components have extensive design verification and documentation, and are available for use in commercial systems today.
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