juanmaneo / caliptra

Caliptra IP and firmware for integrated Root of Trust block

Caliptra

Caliptra consists of IP and firmware for an integrated Root of Trust block.

Caliptra targets datacenter-class SoCs like CPUs, GPUs, DPUs, TPUs. It is the specification, silicon logic, ROM and firmware for implementing a Root of Trust for Measurement (RTM) block inside an SoC. A Caliptra integration provides the SoC with Identity, Measured Boot and Attestation capabilities.

Organizations

Caliptra is a project originally incepted at the Open Compute Project (OCP). The major revisions of the Caliptra specifications are published at OCP. The evolving source code and documentation for Caliptra live in this repository within the CHIPS Alliance Project, a Series of LF Projects, LLC.

Governance

The Caliptra WorkGroup Technical Charter sets out the charter governing the Caliptra project and its marks.

Specifications

• Main Caliptra specification
• Hardware Specification
• Hardware Integration Specification
• ROM
• FMC
• Firmware

Test Dashboards

• Caliptra Software CI dashboard -- includes ROM

Repositories

The Caliptra code base and documentation are split across five repositories:

Repository	Areas of interest	Description
Primary repository	Issues, PRs, Security advisories	This repository, with admin boilerplate and docs
Caliptra RTL	Issues, PRs, Security advisories	The primary repository with immutable RTL
Caliptra Software	Issues, PRs, Security advisories	Caliptra software (ROM, FMC, runtime firmware), and libraries/tools needed to build and test
Caliptra DPE	Issues, PRs, Security advisories	An implementation of a TCG DICE Protection Environment profile
Caliptra U-Reg	Issues, PRs, Security advisories	General-purpose libraries and tools for manipulating MMIO registers from Rust

The GitHub config parameters for all of the branches are documented in a local file.

Convenience repository URLs

All these URLs redirect into the repositories above.

• repo.caliptra.io
• spec.caliptra.io
• sw.caliptra.io
• fw.caliptra.io
• hw.caliptra.io
• rtl.caliptra.io
• dpe.caliptra.io
• ureg.caliptra.io
• ireg[s].caliptra.io
• ereg[s].caliptra.io

Security policy

For information on the Caliptra security policy, how to report a vulerability, and published security advisories, refer to Caliptra security policy.

Discussion Channels

The Caliptra workgroup meets every Friday at 9am PT. Meeting invite and agenda are posted to the mailing list. The call invite is also reachable from the CHIPS Workgroups page.

A Slack channel is used for interactive discussions. Keep in mind development activity is focused on GitHub issues and Pull Request reviews, rarely on the Slack channel. If you have issues joining please contact the mailing list.

Please sign the CHIPS CLA (as an individual or your company if affiliated) before participating in these channels.

License

All code written for Caliptra and found in these repositories is licensed under the Apache Source License 2.0. You can find out more by reading our document on how to contribute.