Beihang University Undergraduate Chip Design Team's Success in Taping Out Processors

TapTechNews July 12th news, the undergraduate chip design team of the School of Computer Science, Beihang University, successfully taped out the Lain and EULA processors based on the Loongson LoongArch instruction set.

Both processors have complete SoC and rich peripheral support. They can not only run the MOS teaching operating system independently designed by the School of Computer Science, but also support Linux 5.19 and complex multimedia audio and video application software.

The Lain processor focuses on verifying modern CPU mainstream microarchitecture technologies such as multi-issue, out-of-order, and multi-core, while the EULA processor focuses on verifying the chip agile development environment and its full-process design support.

TapTechNews learned from the official of Loongson that the Beihang-Loongson Hundred-Chip Plan was officially launched in 2020, aiming at undergraduate development and taping out, to cultivate urgently-needed top-notch innovative talents with the full-process ability from CPU, operating system, compiler to chip implementation for the country.

Wang Wenxiang, the chief architect of Loongson中科, said: This time, the undergraduate chip design team of Beihang University completed the hardware front-end and back-end design from the CPU core and SoC chip, until the software development tasks of the operating system, compiler and even the application program, penetrating the entire technical stack of the processor chip design, showing extremely high completion, and realizing the full-stack penetration of the domestic independent and controllable processor chip design ability.