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 new 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
7 May 2026
Our paper "A Flexible Template for Edge Generative AI With High-Accuracy Accelerated Softmax and GELU" is due to receive the 2026 IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits & Systems Best Paper Award which will presented at ISCAS 2026 in Shanghai.
12 February 2026
We have coorganized EFCL Winter School with 5 keynotes and 2 parallel tracks. You can find the slides for the talks, lectures ane exercices here.
20 January 2026
We have taped-out Flamingo in 22nm through GF University Partnership Program, combining our open-source Cheshire platform with Spatz vector units and commercial interface IP donated by Synopsys. 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: