Ten Years of PULP: The Evolution of the Species from IoT to HPC (Davide Rossi)
Channel: FOSSi Foundation
Date: 19/09/2023

With the increasing number of applications across various sectors such as IoT, consumer electronics, industrial automation, automotive, and high-performance computing silicon IPs leverage silicon IPs as fundamental building block for creating complex electronic systems. While the cost of accessing silicon has been decreasing due to the twilight of Moore’s law, obtaining proprietary hardware IPs remains a significant obstacle for innovative start-ups and can also lead to apply chain challenges for larger companies. However, a recent surge in high-quality open-source hardware IPs offers a promising solution to overcome this barrier. These advancements pave the way for exciting applications in open-source electronics, potentially alleviating supply chain issues for global electronics system design companies. In this presentation, I will delve into the evolutionary journey of the open-source Parallel-Ultra-Low-Power (PULP) platform over the past decade exploring opportunities and challenges for next-generation open-source computing systems in a wide range of domains, from IoT to HPC.