lowRISC

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lowRISC is a not-for-profit engineering company that creates and maintains commercial-grade open-source silicon designs through a collaborative Silicon Commons approach. It maintains Ibex, a production-quality open-source 32-bit RISC-V CPU core used in contexts such as OpenTitan.

First seen 5/27/2026

Last seen 7/19/2026

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lowRISC

lowRISC is a not-for-profit engineering company that creates and maintains commercial-grade open-source silicon designs through its collaborative Silicon Commons approach.

Maintained silicon designs

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NEIGHBORHOOD

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RELATIONSHIPS

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TestRIG uses → 90% 2e

lowRISC is a user and contributor to TestRIG.

Ibex ← published by 1e

Ibex is published and maintained by lowRISC on GitHub.

Kronos ← published by 100% 1e

Kronos is published by lowRISC organization.

Ibex introduces → 100% 1e

LowRISC produces the Ibex RISC-V processor core.

Greg Chadwick ← part of 99% 1e

Greg Chadwick is affiliated with lowRISC.

Hugo McNally ← part of 99% 1e

Hugo McNally is affiliated with lowRISC.

OpenTitan ← published by 100% 1e

OpenTitan is published by lowRISC and Google.

Ibex Core ← mentions 90% 1e

The Ibex Core is developed and maintained by lowRISC.

dvsim uses → 88% 1e

dvsim is lowRISC's in-house developed regression tool.

OpenTitan introduces → 85% 1e

lowRISC develops and maintains the OpenTitan project, which includes PWRMGR IP.

riscv-dv uses → 97% 1e

LowRISC collaborated to apply RISCV-DV for IBEX core verification

Ibex ← authored by 1e

Ibex is authored and maintained by lowRISC, as evidenced by the GitHub repository URL.

CITATIONS

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[1] lowRISC is a not-for-profit engineering company that creates and maintains commercial-grade open-source silicon designs through a collaborative Silicon Commons approach. [PDF] UVM based design veri cation of a RISC-V CPU core - POLITesi

[2] lowRISC maintains Ibex, a production-quality open-source 32-bit RISC-V CPU core written in SystemVerilog. [PDF] UVM based design veri cation of a RISC-V CPU core - POLITesi

[3] Ibex is heavily parameterizable, suited for embedded control applications, has undergone extensive verification, and has seen multiple tape-outs. [PDF] UVM based design veri cation of a RISC-V CPU core - POLITesi

[4] Ibex supports the RISC-V I or E, M, C, and B/Bit Manipulation extensions. [PDF] UVM based design veri cation of a RISC-V CPU core - POLITesi

[5] Ibex is used in OpenTitan, an open-source silicon Root of Trust project described as a secure chip providing trustworthy functions for strong device or system security. [PDF] UVM based design veri cation of a RISC-V CPU core - POLITesi

[6] Ibex is verified using a UVM-based testbench with co-simulation against the Spike ISS reference model and binaries generated from RISC-DV random-instruction-generator output. [PDF] UVM based design veri cation of a RISC-V CPU core - POLITesi

[7] The Ibex testbench provides randomized memory timings, memory errors, interrupts, and debug requests, and implements a comprehensive test plan and coverage plan. [PDF] UVM based design veri cation of a RISC-V CPU core - POLITesi

[8] Ibex verification closure targets supported configurations, with current effort focused on the OpenTitan configuration, which has nightly regression runs. [PDF] UVM based design veri cation of a RISC-V CPU core - POLITesi

[9] The cited source reports 90% code and functional coverage, more than 90% regression pass rate, and fully implemented but not yet closed test and coverage plans for Ibex verification maturity tracking. [PDF] UVM based design veri cation of a RISC-V CPU core - POLITesi