COSCUP 2024

RISC-V Cores in industrial quality and Open Source
2024-08-04, 15:30–16:00 (Asia/Taipei), TR611

Can you design a commercial chip, shipping hundred of millions of it? The OpenHW Group is dedicated to curate and maintain with it's members industrial quality, open source RISC-V IP with full verification and documentation under a permissive license. OpenHW Group RISC-V IP has been already shipped in many different commercial applications and is best suited for custom extensions or modification if you wish but also works off-the-shelf. Let us give an overview about our Core line up and how we enable embedded IoT, edge AI and a variety of other applications.


OpenHW Group provides industrial grade (already shipped in real products in 100 of Millions devices) yet open source (Apache 2.0 with Solderpad on top) RISC-V CPU IP. We are a non-profit, financing ourself via Member fees and with our Members verify, document and enhance and maintain our IP product portfolio which centers around RISC-V Cores. In this talk we want to give more overview who we are and what we do and why big multinational companies but also many startups use our RISC-V Cores to make real products

Flo is the CEO of the OpenHW Group and international not-for-Profit organization dedicated to curate and maintain high quality, industrial grade, open source RISC-V Cores. Flo is fascinated by RISC-V and help to smoothen accessibility to high quality RISC-V and help promote the RISC-V ISA worldwide. He is also one of the first RISC-V International Ambassadors. Before leading the OpenHW Group Flo was Head of Sales for a commercial RISC-V provider where he took care of the markets in Japan, Europe and Middle East.