BOOM Core
ConceptBOOM Core is an open-source RISC-V processor core described in recent research as a complex out-of-order design, and it has been used as an evaluation target in processor-fuzzing studies and leakage-contract security analysis.
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BOOM Core
BOOM Core is an open-source RISC-V processor core described in recent research as a complex out-of-order design.[1]
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[1] BOOM Core is an open-source RISC-V processor core described as a complex out-of-order design. Coverage-Guided Pre-Silicon Fuzzing of Open-Source Processors based on Leakage Contracts
[2] A 2025 leakage-contract fuzzing study evaluated BOOM with Rocket Core and reported that increased microarchitectural coverage led to faster discovery of security vulnerabilities in BOOM. Coverage-Guided Pre-Silicon Fuzzing of Open-Source Processors based on Leakage Contracts
[3] ProcessorFuzz evaluated BOOM with Rocket and BlackParrot as real-world open-source processors. ProcessorFuzz thesis excerpt