Notices by CHERI Alliance (cheri_alliance@infosec.exchange)

Help us track down Morello boards!!! 🕵️

The CHERI Alliance now manages Arm Morello CHERI development boards, but unfortunately we're missing the distribution data from the DSbD program...

We need your help!
👉 Got a board? Send us the serial number
👉 Not using it? Help us get it into the hands of someone who will

Don’t let valuable hardware sit idle—help grow the CHERI ecosystem. 🌱

More info: https://lnkd.in/etyi-m_V
Contact the CHERI Alliance: https://lnkd.in/ebMwVX7x

RE: https://mastodon.social/@CyReVolt/116295324583425606

Thanks! 😊
Just to note that while the CHERI project is 15 years old, the Alliance is still young (2 years old)...

@david_chisnall @bsdphk
@jmorris

If you are interested to get a free loan of an Arm Morello board, please follow the instructions here: https://cheri-alliance.org/discover-cheri/cheri-products/morello/

SCI Semiconductor’s ICENI chip brings CHERI’s hardware-enforced memory safety out of simulators and FPGA prototypes and into a real microcontroller for secure embedded systems.

Find out more: https://cheri-alliance.org/iceni-first-look/

⚙️ Towards a reference QEMU for CHERI platform emulation: An update from the CHERI QEMU Working Group ⚙️

QEMU is one of the most popular open source machine emulators, with support for many CPU architectures, including x86_64, Arm and RISC-V.

As of January 2026, we are excited to announce that the CHERI Alliance hosts a reference QEMU implementation that supports multiple modern hashtag#CHERI platforms based on Arm and RISC-V. These include the Arm Morello platform, the CHERI RISC-V standard draft 0.9.3 and the University of Cambridge RISC-V ISA v9. The CHERI Alliance reference implementation is an important milestone for future development and integration of CHERI support in QEMU.

We expect 2026 to be an exciting year for the CHERI Alliance and the CHERI QEMU community as a whole. With no shortage of work in sight, we would like to encourage members of the Alliance and any other organisation interested in CHERI to check out the latest developments.

🔗 Find out more: https://cheri-alliance.org/towards-a-reference-qemu-for-cheri-platform-emulation/

🌟 BIG NEWS!! The CHERI Alliance now distributes Arm Morello boards 🌟
... the #CHERI development journey continues beyond DSbD

The CHERI Alliance is thrilled to announce that, following the end of the Digital Security by Design (DSbD) program, we have taken over distribution of the Arm Morello CHERI development boards. These boards, developed as part of the DSbD program and funded by the UK government, feature a chip developed by Arm with a powerful CHERI processor. We are excited to keep making a vital research and development platform available to the community — to discover and experiment with CHERI, but also to develop or port existing software and tools.

If you or your team are interested in obtaining a Morello board (research, teaching, prototyping, or evaluation), please contact the CHERI Alliance and tell us about your use case: https://cheri-alliance.org/contact/

Available boards are limited, so we will prioritise requests and loan the boards to the teams who will put them to the best use.

👉 We’ll be coordinating fulfillment and next steps soon. Please share this post and tag colleagues who should see it.

Excited to enable the community to use CHERI — let’s build the future of safer hardware and software together! 🙌

@david_chisnall