PULP Features
- efficient implementations of RISC-V cores. These include:
- complete systems based on:
- single-core micro-controllers (PULPissimo, PULPino)
- multi-core IoT Processors (OpenPULP)
- multi-cluster heterogeneous accelerators (Hero)
- open-source SolderPad license
- a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable license
- rich set of peripherals
- I2C, SPI, HyperRAM, GPIO
Do you use PULP?
Does your company or institution use PULP? Please, let us know via email info@pulp-platform.org or send us a direct message on Twitter. We would love to expand our user list.
Meet our mascot
This is our mascot, Charlie The Bear, the successor of Alex The Bear (until 2019) and Bianca The Bear (until 2023). Just like our previous mascots, Charlie The Bear likes to take pictures with our fans.
Charlie The Bear
Latest news New
27 August 2025
Philippe won The Best Poster award for "34 mm² End-to-End Open-Source 64-bit Linux-Capable RISC-V SoC in 130nm BiCMOS" at Hot Chips 2025. Find his poster here.
31 July 2025
Our paper "A Dynamic Allocation Scheme for Adaptive Shared-memory Mapping on Kilo-core RV Clusters for Attention-based Model Deployment" got the Best Paper Award at ASAP2025 in Vancouver.
1 May 2025
We have now fully brought up Basilisk, the first end-to-end open-source application-class SoC autonomously booting Linux designed using exclusively open-source tools (KiCad, Yosys, OpenROAD, KLayout) and open-source hardware designs targeting IHP's open 130nm node.
15 March 2025
Launched with the SpaceX transporter, our fault tolerant chip Trikarenos was sent into orbit on March 15, with ALICE by the Swiss Academic Space Initiative. Read more here.
Development boards
The following companies sell development boards with chips based on our PULP system:- open-isa.org sells their RV32M1-VEGA development board.
- AI Deck is a collaborative product of GreenWaves, BitCraze and ETH Zurich based on the PULP-shield.
Support
Do you need help with PULP?
We have an Online Forum. Please register and ask your question. Discussions on individual GitHub pages or the following links might be helpful, as well: