The short answer to this is that no, we're not at the stage where we've carefully considered these parameters. Most of our focus so far has been on the platform design+implementation and on ensuring there is at least one viable route to a tapeout, with necessary packaging design and access to the physical IP we need given the funding we have.

We'll do whatever EMC testing is necessary to comply with legislation for sale in the UK/Europe/USA/elsewhere. Beyond that, it would depend on demand from potential adopters and understanding their use case. e.g. there's no point in spending lots of money on tests on the bare board if it turned people like yourself would be putting it in a case.

I'd be really interested in finding out more about your requirements and potential use cases. To an extent, our main focus is on getting something out of the door. However we're very aware that there are a number of applications, like aerospace, where the open source (and hence auditable) nature may be particularly interesting, where we may be able to make collaborate and make small modifications at the design stage to better support a target application, and where typical unit costs are much higher than e.g. mass-market mobile phone SoCs.

I'd love to take you up on your offer of advice on this. You don't have contact info in your profile, so please drop me a line at asb@lowrisc.org.