https://openpowerfoundation.org/libre-soc-180nm-power-isa-asic-submitted-to-... https://libre-soc.org/ http://git.libre-soc.org/ https://libre-soc.org/openpower/sv/svp64/ https://github.com/antonblanchard/microwatt/ https://openpowerfoundation.org/openpower-foundation-provides-microwatt-for-... https://github.com/The-OpenROAD-Project/OpenLane http://coriolis.lip6.fr/ https://gitlab.com/Chips4Makers/c4m-pdk-freepdk45 https://chips4makers.io/ https://www.ngi.eu/ngi-projects/ngi-pointer/ https://openpower.foundation/groups/isa/ ProTip: Doesn't matter how your OpenHW is, unless you're printing it in an #OpenFab operating under an #OpenAudit environment whatever comes off the line is still untrustable. "We're building a chip. A fast chip. A safe chip. A trusted chip," explains the web page at Libre-SOC.org. "A chip with lots of peripherals. And it's VPU. And it's a 3D GPU... Oh and here, have the source code." Libre-SOC's entirely Libre 180nm ASIC, which can be replicated down to symbolic level GDS-II with no NDAs of any kind, has been submitted to IMEC for fabrication. It is the first wholly-independent Power ISA ASIC outside of IBM to go Silicon in 12 years. Microwatt went to Skywater 130nm in March; however, it is also developed by IBM, as an exceptionally well-made Reference Design, which Libre-SOC used for verification. Whilst it would seem that Libre-SOC is jumping on the chip-shortage era's innovation bandwagon, Libre-SOC has actually been in development for over three and a half years so far. It even pre-dates the OpenLane initiative, and has the same objectives: fully automated HDL to GDS-II, full transparency and auditability with Libre VLSI tools Coriolis2 and Libre Cell Libraries from Chips4Makers. With €400,000 in funding from the NLNet Foundation [a long-standing non-profit supporting privacy, security, and the "open internet"], plus an application to NGI Pointer under consideration, the next steps are to continue development of Draft Cray-style Vectors (SVP64) to the already supercomputer-level Power ISA, under the watchful eye of the upcoming OpenPOWER ISA Workgroup. https://patents.google.com/patent/US8664047B2/en