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PULP FACTS PULP FACTS

Hi! i’m Bianca, international Bear of mystery, and i’m Here to take you on a tour of tHe PulP Platform. ready?

PulP stands for Parallel ultra low Power. tHe PulP Platform started as a collaBoration Between tHe integrated systems laBoratory at etH ZüricH and tHe energy-efficient emBedded systems grouP at tHe university of Bologna.

since 2013, PulP Has imPlemented over 50 cHiPs. cHeck out our first risc-v core, imPerio, from 2015.

(Back tHen, my Predecessor, alex, was in cHarge. alex went missing Back in 2019. we don’t talk aBout alex)

some of our cHiPs Have won accolades, like fulmine, winner of an ieee circuits and systems Best PaPer award.

some Provide extra comPutational muscle, like arnold, wHicH was Produced in record time tHanks to industry collaBoration witH Quicklogic.

wHile otHers are just Pretty Hot cHiPs... eacH contriButing sometHing uniQue to tHe oPen Hardware ecosystem…

mr wolf dustin

...and finding tHeir way into all kinds of aPPlications... darkside kraken

...including some wHicH Have really taken off.

of course, it’s not all Plain sailing. testing is always nerve-racking, and sometimes tHings don’t go Quite to Plan... sometimes we get too close to tHe cHiPs…

But witH ParticiPation in major eu-funded Programmes like tHe euroPean Processor initiative, tHe future’s BrigHt for PulP and oPen Hardware.

want to find out more? visit PulP-Platform.org and cHeck out our cHiPs asic.etHZ.cH and follow us on twitter @PulP_Platform