1 SoC Survey | COMP.CE.250 - System-on-Chip Design

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SoC Survey

Task: Summarize the contents of a GitHub repository assigned to your group. Report your findings in a 5-10 minute presentation: 2-3 Powerpoint slides are enough.

Results are presented on:

exercises Mon 26.1.
lecture Wed 28.1.
exercises Thu 30.1.

Required steps in Moodle:

Sign up for a group. The group number selects your topic: Group formation tool
Reserve the time slot for your group: SoC Survey time slot selection

Try to find answers to following questions:

(If the answer to a question cannot be easily found, skip it)

What?

What is this?

Why?

What do they promise?
Why does this exist?

Who & Where?

Who are the authors/developers?
Institution, any specific location, important stakeholders, etc

How?

Languages: HDLs, software, scripts
Tools used / supported
License: Are there restrictions for using this?
Lines of code (Not mandatory, but explains the scale if you find it easily)
- cloc is an useful Linux tool for listing these

How easy is it to get started?

Are there instructions for "Hello world", are they clear?
Did you try? (Was not able to run / did not try is a valid answer!)
Did you understand the content in this time?

Topics and groups

Platforms

1 Pulpissimo - https://github.com/pulp-platform/pulpissimo
2 OpenPiton - https://github.com/PrincetonUniversity/openpiton
3 Carfield - https://github.com/pulp-platform/carfield
4 Atalanta - https://github.com/soc-hub-fi/Atalanta
5 Caravel - https://github.com/efabless/caravel
6 Croc - https://github.com/pulp-platform/croc
7 TinyTapeout - https://tinytapeout.com/

CPU

8 OpenTitan - https://github.com/lowRISC/opentitan
9 Caliptra - https://github.com/chipsalliance/Caliptra
10 Chipyard - https://github.com/ucb-bar/chipyard
11 Ibex - https://github.com/lowRISC/ibex
12 CVA6 - https://github.com/openhwgroup/cva6
13 Black-Parrot - https://github.com/black-parrot/black-parrot
14 Muntjac - https://github.com/lowRISC/muntjac
15 Leros - https://github.com/leros-dev/leros

Tools

16 Morty & Bender - https://github.com/pulp-platform/morty https://github.com/pulp-platform/bender
17 Kactus2 - https://github.com/kactus2/kactus2dev
18 Chisel - https://github.com/chipsalliance/chisel
19 OpenROAD - https://github.com/The-OpenROAD-Project/OpenROAD
20 LibreLane - https://github.com/librelane/librelane
21 IIC-OSIC-TOOLS - https://github.com/iic-jku/IIC-OSIC-TOOLS

PDK

22 Skywater PDK - https://github.com/google/skywater-pdk
23 IHP Open PDK - https://github.com/IHP-GmbH/IHP-Open-PDK

Returning

Return your slides here in PDF format:

Earned points

0 / 1

Exercise info

Assignment category: SoC Survey
Your submissions: 0 / 9
Points required to pass: 1
Deadline: Thursday, 29 January 2026, 23:58
Late submission deadline: Sunday, 22 February 2026, 23:59
Group size: 1-3
Total number of submitters: 0