Adding Physical Memory Protection to the VeeR EL2 RISC-V Core

Antmicro’s work with CHIPS Alliance’s Caliptra Root of Trust project, led by Google, AMD, NVIDIA, and Microsoft focuses around providing automated testing and verification infrastructure including code quality checks, code indexing, coverage and functional testing pipelines, as well as maintaining and enhancing the RISC-V VeeR EL2 core which sits in the middle of the Caliptra design. As providers of commercial engineering services around open source tools and silicon blocks, working on Caliptra gives us both a solid starting point for assisting customers with practical RoT implementations as well as a template for CI-driven ASIC development.

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