A fully open-sourced,
Linux-capable,
System-on-a-Chip
Our designs are permissively licensed and developed with collaborators from around the world. We implement the free and open RISC-V ISA.
We are pursuing novel security features such as tagged memory. Unlike proprietary offerings, all aspects of the design can be fully audited.
Hardware needs softening up - through minion cores we enable I/O interfaces and real-time control to be defined in software.
The lowRISC platform aims to be the "Linux of the hardware world", providing a high quality, secure, and open base for derivative designs. We will prove our design with volume silicon manufacture and an accompanying low-cost development board. Our goal is to lower the barrier of entry to producing custom silicon, establishing a vibrant ecosystem around secure and open hardware designs. lowRISC was formed as a not-for-profit community-driven organisation to pursue these aims.