Daniel Schultz, founder of aesc silicon, talked about his fully open source chip development, at World RISC‑V Days Turin event organized by us on 26 February 2026.
Schultz demonstrates that it is now possible to create fully open source chips, from core design to silicon fabrication! By leveraging open source RTL and EDA tools, Schultz's work culminates in projects like ElemRV, an end-to-end open-source microcontroller built around a RISC-V core. His talk showcased how the openness of the RISC-V ISA enables a new paradigm of hardware development, which he describes as "bringing the proven success of Linux to the semiconductor industry," empowering individuals and organizations to simulate, implement on FPGA, and manufacture their very own ASICs.
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Schultz demonstrates that it is now possible to create fully open source chips, from core design to silicon fabrication! By leveraging open source RTL and EDA tools, Schultz's work culminates in projects like ElemRV, an end-to-end open-source microcontroller built around a RISC-V core. His talk showcased how the openness of the RISC-V ISA enables a new paradigm of hardware development, which he describes as "bringing the proven success of Linux to the semiconductor industry," empowering individuals and organizations to simulate, implement on FPGA, and manufacture their very own ASICs.
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