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.
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.
Why buy a bottle when you can have your own keg? Open source hardware might not shout “free beer” but the new Unified RISC-V IP Access Platform, maintained by OpenHW Foundation, is just that – free recipes for your own free-flowing beer. From CVA6 superscalers to UVM support on Verilator, Chips JU project TRISTAN has united Europe’s biggest industry players with academia to move open source semiconductors from the lab to the real world. Now with the UAP, you can benefit from all of this hard work. In this talk, you’ll get uncensored access to recent advancements in European RISC-V, and a demonstration of how you can immediately leverage industry-ready open source designs from projects across Europe, all explained with glorious beer.
