The HEP research project has presented an open, flexible design for a security chip. The project, “Hardening the value chain through open source, trusted EDA tools and processors (HEP),” uses open source, free components and tools to manufacture a chip at the IHP fab—the Leibniz-Institute for High Performance Microelectronics. The easy accessibility of the used process sets new standards for development times and significantly reduces the learning curve for chip design.
Standards in the field of open source hardware: Open tools used for a security chip
