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Working Groups

The OpenHW Group is a not-for-profit, global organization driven by its members and individual contributors where hardware and software designers collaborate in the development of open-source cores, related IP, tools and software. OpenHW provides an infrastructure for hosting high quality open-source HW developments in line with industry best practices.

The projects and activities within the OpenHW Group are managed by two standing committees: the Technical Working Group and the Marketing Working Group including sub Task Groups therein.

Technical Working Group

The Technical Working Group has the mandate to drive the overall technical direction, development roadmap and project execution for all technology related activities within the OpenHW Group. In doing so, the following sub Task Groups have been established.

Jérôme Quevremont

Co Chair

Thales Group

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Jeremy Bennett

Co Chair

Embecosm

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Task groups

Cores Task Group

The Cores Task Group has the mandate to develop feature and functionality roadmap and the open-source IP for the cores within the OpenHW Group such as the CORE-V Family of open-source RISC-V processors. Existing cores Task Group projects can be found here.

Arjan Bink

Chair

Silicon Laboratories

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Jérôme Quévremont

Vice Chair

Thales Research & Technology

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Verification Task Group

The Verification Task Group has the mandate to develop best in class verification test bench environments for the cores and IP blocks developed within the OpenHW Group. Existing Verification Task Group projects can be found here.

Jean-Roch Coulon

Co Chair

Thales Group

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Vacant Position

Co Chair

SW Task Group

The SW Task Group has the mandate to define, develop and support SW tool chain, operating system ports and firmware for the cores and IP developed within the OpenHW Group. Existing SW Task Group projects can be found here.

Paolo Savini

Chair

Embecosm

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Vacant Position

Vice Chair

Safety and Security Task Group

OpenHW Group's Safety and Security TG is the Task Group developing the roadmap for and implementations of Functional Safety and Security IP for OpenHW's cores and ASICs.

Jaume Abella

Co Chair

Barcelona Supercomputer Centre

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Vacant Position

Co Chair

Interconnect Task Group

Jonathan Balkind

Co Chair

UC Santa Barbara

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César Fuguet

Co Chair

CEA

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Marketing Working Group

The Marketing Working Group has the mandate to drive positioning, promotion, training, University research initiatives and overall membership growth for the OpenHW Group. The following sub Task Group has been established to manage OpenHW Group University research initiatives:

Brent Jodoin

Co Chair

CMC Microsystems

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Danny Hua

Co Chair

Futurewei Technologies

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Working Group Calls

All the OpenHW Group Working Group Calls are managed through a single shared Google calendar.

You can find a web version of this shared calendar below.

The shared calendar is also available in ICal format, which is compatible with most desktop calendar clients.

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