Introduction

• Date: July, 2021
• Members: Frontier System Laboratory, Center for Advanced Computer Systems, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing Institute of Open Source Chip, etc
• Partners: PengCheng Laboratory, Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), etc
• Slogan: (Build an) Ecosystem for Collaborative and Open Silicon
• Goal: ECOS Team are committed to building open-source chip design solutions and its supporting technology ecosystem, using the concept of "open source" to innovate chip design methods, and realizing the ultimate vision of "lowering the threshold of chip design with open source and empowering thousands of industries"

Community & Resources

• [FSiC2025 PPT] "One Student One Chip" initiative: Learn to build RISC-V chips from scratch with MOOC
• [FSiC2025 PPT] Making Open Silicon Design Everywhere: Using Cloud-based Open Agile EDA Platform

Project List

• EDA
  • ECOS ChipCompiler: A Chip Design Automation Solution with Open Source EDA Tools
• Chip
• One Student One Chip
  • One Student One Chip: The Large-scale Open Public Welfare Chip and System Talent Training Initiative
• System Solution
  • retroSoC: A Fully Open Source and Customizable ASIC Framework for Tapeout Applications
  • ICsprout55 PDK: The 55nm CMOS Open Source PDK by ICsprout Integrated Circuit Co., Ltd.
  • ECOS Embedded: An Open Source Knowledge Sharing Platform for Embedded
  • ECOS Studio: An RTL2GDS Agile Design Platform with Open Source IP/SoC + PDK + EDA
• Community
  • ECOS ChipCreative: A Community focused on the Open Source Chip Ecosystem