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Pavona Aims To Provide A Certification-Ready, Open-Source Silicon Ecosystem

Written by Michael Larabel in Hardware on 26 May 2026 at 09:51 AM EDT. 9 Comments
GlobalPlatform announced today the launch of Pavona as an open-source silicon ecosystem backed by founding members such as Meta, Qualcomm, Tenstorrent, Winbond, and the University of Oxford, among others.

Pavona's global is to do to hardware what Linux has done for software. Pavona self-describes itself as:
"Pavona is an independent open-source silicon distribution hosted by the GlobalPlatform consortium.

The project maintains a modular library of general-purpose, tapeout-proven, certification-ready blocks and reference designs suitable for building secure-by-default chips, and more."

Founding members of Pavona include Agile Analog, Analog Devices, Baochip, CrossBar, Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy, Meta, University of Oxford, SIMPLE Crypto Association, Qualcomm Technologies, Tenstorrent, Winbond, and ZeroRISC.

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Those wanting to learn more about this open-source silicon initiative can do so via Pavona.org.

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