Open Platform for Communication-AI Convergence Fusion
ACE-Echo
An open development platform built on Venus, our programmable RISC-V processor for communication–AI convergence. Explore the architecture. Build applications for our hardware. Shape what comes next.
The Echo ecosystem
First-generation silicon
Our first-generation chip has taped out
and achieved first light.
Architecture
The architecture, the chip and the tools.
Designed to evolve together.
AURA is the foundational computing architecture behind Echo. It is designed for tight integration of perception, communication, and computation, optimized for edge and low-latency scenarios. It is composed of Venus Language, Zoozve Compiler, and Mathematic Libraries.
If you want to learn more about compilers, see Zoozve: A Strip-Mining-Free RISC-V Vector Extension with Arbitrary Register Grouping Compilation Support (WIP).
Venus is a custom RISC-V processor based on the AURA architecture.
For details, see A Hierarchical Dataflow-Driven Heterogeneous Architecture for Wireless Baseband Processing.
Capabilities
A usable Gem5-based simulator and the first version of our Agent-assisted development framework.
| Capability | What you can do in 1.0 |
|---|---|
| Develop for Venus | Write application tasks in Venus C and describe their dependencies in BAS. |
| Explore performance | Run the Gem5 model and quickly estimate task timing and data movement. |
| Iterate with an Agent | Use the initial Agent framework with developer guidance and review. |
| Build on shared work | Start with the paired DSL and Venus1 samples, then contribute your own applications. |
Cycle-level simulation supports approximate performance evaluation. See the validation scope for measured accuracy and model boundaries.
Communication meets intelligence
Explore the applications and research
behind the Echo ecosystem.
Synchronization, cell search and baseband processing.
02Architecture research connecting neural workloads and wireless processing.
03Explore GNSS, LoRa and other signal-processing directions.
Ecosystem examples and research directions. Available applications and validation coverage depend on the selected hardware and release.
Audience
Academia & Researchers
Open-Source Platform for Communication-AI Research
Explore communication–AI algorithms and hardware-aware implementations in a shared, programmable research environment.
Industry
Decoupled Software-Hardware Baseband Chip Solution
Explore applications and system trade-offs for a programmable communication processor.
Use simulation to compare design choices before hardware evaluation.
Standards Organizations
Explore Future Wireless Systems
Investigate new wireless processing ideas on an architecture designed around communication and intelligent computation.
Develop reusable experiments and share findings with the community.
Echo is your playground. Whether you're building, testing, or scaling, Echo gives you the freedom to create.
Roadmap
Available in the release branch
Develop applications for Venus with a usable Gem5 simulator, approximate cycle-level performance evaluation and an initial Agent-assisted development framework.
Get started with 1.0 ↗Planned direction
Our goal is for an Agent to turn your application intent into an implementation deployable on Venus, including generation, iteration and validation. This is a future platform goal; no release date is announced here.
Latest from ACE Lab
From fabrication and packaging to bring-up and real-signal NR cell search.
Read the announcement ↗All project news ↗Get Started
Community
Email: shenyihao@shu.edu.cn
Explore the source on GitHub ↗
A shared foundation for communication and intelligence.
We warmly welcome more developers, researchers, and collaborators to join us on this journey.
