March 9, 2021
OpenHW Group and Mitacs announce OpenHW Accelerate – a $22.5M, multi-year co-funded research program to stimulate architecture research for next generation of open-source processors
OpenHW Accelerate’s first research project, CORE-V VEC, awarded to CMC Microsystems, ETH Zürich and Polytechnique Montréal
Ottawa, Canada, March 9, 2021: Today, OpenHW Group and Mitacs announced OpenHW Accelerate, a $22.5M multi-year co-funded research program, the world’s first open-source hardware research program of its kind. OpenHW Accelerate will drive research in next generation of class-leading open-source processors, architectures and support software for embedded AI and machine learning (ML) applications, among other future energy-intensive computing requirements.