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
Example
Arm
megaSoC
A full operating system platform for complex compute and custom accelerators for larger models with power monitoring for significant research projects.
Reference Design
milliSoC
Something in between...
Title megaSoC milliSoC
Class Complex Mid-range
Processor(s) A53 M55/U55
Processor(s) (speed) > 800 Mhz 250-800Mhz
Virtual Prototype Environment HAPS MPS3

Examples of academic tape ours using the Arm ecosystem

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