GoIT: European initiative for free and open silicon
summary
GoIT is an EU coordination project that drafts a pan‑jurisdiction hardware license, funds conferences and lawyers, and pushes policy feedback on the Chips Act while actively trying to open access to PDKs and design tools. It documents a working mixed‑signal chip done with pure open‑source flows, and develops a reference repository and dependency solvers to reduce RTL reuse friction. The project also maps root‑of‑trust primitives, tests hosting and cloud deployment tradeoffs, and prepares standards and certification routes.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00GoIT and open silicon
- 3:32Project goals and team
- 5:17Open Source Hardware hub
- 7:02Chips Act and open gaps
- 10:13Policy influence via GoIT
- 10:55First open chip success
- 11:57Silicon IP reusability challenges
- 13:22RTL designs repository
- 14:04Q&A on open source
- 20:56Open source EDA models
- 23:06Hardware licenses and sustainability
- 24:56Global chips collaboration
- 26:02Analog/mixed-signal opportunities
- 31:27Funding for open silicon
- 32:52Verification for analog IP
- 33:36Patent pools and barriers
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