Princeton Piton Processor

Princeton Piton Processor, is a many-core designed by Prof. Wentzlaff's research group in March, 2015. It was taped-out in IBM's 32nm SOI process. Some of Piton's features are listed below:

  • 25 modified OpenSPARC T1 cores
  • Directory-based shared memory
  • 3 On-chip networks
  • Multi-chip shared memory support
  • 1 GHz clock frequency
  • IBM 32nm SOI process (6mm*6mm)
  • 460 million transistors

IEEE Micro Article

Hot Chips Presentation

HPCA 2018 Paper

OpenPiton, the open source release of the Princeton Piton Processor, was released in June 2015.

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