The Free and Open Source Silicon Foundation (FOSSi Foundation) is a non-profit foundation with the mission to promote and assist free and open digital hardware designs and their related ecosystems.[1] It was set up by the core OpenRISC development team in response to decreasing support from the commercial owners of the opencores.org website. The main sponsor of the FOSSi Foundation is Google and past sponsors included Cadence Design Systems and Embecosm.[2] The FOSSi Foundation should not be confused with the Free Silicon Foundation.[3]
The FOSSi Foundation operates as an open, inclusive, vendor-independent group. It identifies its mission as the following activities:
The FOSSi Foundation is the legal entity, owner of the librecores.org website, the primary portal for the user community. It holds an annual conference (ORConf[4]