The Academic Community for Arm based System on Chip design
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SoC Labs is the global academic community for System On Chip development using the Arm based ecosystem. There are various ways SoC Labs can help you, the technology section lists the extensive Arm IP that Arm Academic Access provides free for academic purposes; the design flow section explains the steps needed to develop a SoC design with tools and other support from our Semiconductor Education Alliance partners and other industry organisations.

The core of SoC Labs is community lead academic SoC design projects. You can find many examples in the projects section and below you will see the core reusable reference designs the community maintain to simplify and lower the cost of academic SoC design.

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Reference Design
nanoSoC demo: kNN project
nanoSoC
A simple, low cost, entry level microcontroller SoC extendable for custom accelerators or simple signal processing, ideal for PhD or other students.
Reference Design
MilliSoC architecture
milliSoC
A mid-range SoC targeting low latency needs such as RF / radar signal processing, constrained AI models, low resolution real-time video, for small team project.
Reference Design
Megasoc architecture
megaSoC
A high end SOC, suitable for larger AI models that require deployment on both CPU and custom accelerator, full resolution video, or other subsystems, ideal for team based research.
Title nanoSoC milliSoC megaSoC
Class Entry Mid Range High End
Processor(s) M0 R5 A53
Processor(s) (speed) <250 Mhz 250-800 MHz 1 GHz
Virtual Prototype Environment Xilinx ZCU104 Arm MPS3 HAPS

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Design contest for a Chiplet based SOC for 2025
© 2024 IEEE SOC Conference
Monday 16th September at 2024 IEEE 37th International System-on-Chip Conference saw the announcement of a new design contest for creation of an academic Chiplet based disaggregated SOC using the ARM ecosystem.

Examples of academic tape ours using the Arm ecosystem

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