A sovereign, India-designed hardware root of trust for critical and regulated computing systems. It establishes hardware-anchored device identity, verifies firmware integrity at boot, protects cryptographic keys and attests what it measured to a relying party. The part is designed to be inspected by the customers and evaluators who carry the risk, and designed for the cryptography that comes after quantum computers. Felsite is pre-silicon, with prototype bring-up under way in Kochi, Kerala.