The people behind Venus, AURA and the ACE-Echo development platform.

Project Overview

  • Project Name: Echo
  • Affiliation: Shanghai University, School of communication and information engineering
  • Project Duration: October 2022 – Present
  • Supervisors: Prof. Zhiyuan Jiang & Prof. Shan Cao
  • Mission: Building scalable, high-efficiency RISC-V based architectures and simulation platforms for AI-integrated communication systems.

Developer Team Overview

Our open-source initiative brings together students and researchers working on three key subprojects: Echo, Venus, and AURA. We thank the following contributors for their work on the project.

Echo: Applications and the development platform

Project Lead: Yihao Shen Contributors: Yi Shi, Limin Jiang, Qingyu Deng, Siyi Xu, Feng Yuan, Xiaoxiao Chen, Qianli Wang, Fangfang Ye, Si Wang

Focus:

  • Development of an open-source platform for communication system research

  • Implementation of modular communication protocol stacks (e.g., 5G/LTE cell search)

  • Design and optimization of reusable communication operator libraries

  • Simulation and application-validation workflows for Venus


Venus: Domain-Specific RISC-V Architecture

Project Leads: Limin Jiang, Yi Shi Contributors: Yintao Liu, Bo Ruan, Haiqin Hu, Qingyu Deng, Siyi Xu, Feng Yuan


AURA: Architecture and programming foundation

Contributors: Shared team members from both the Echo and Venus projects

Focus:

  • Design of domain-specific compiler frontends and backends

  • Development of advanced scheduling algorithms and runtime systems

  • Toolchain support for AI-integrated, communication-intensive applications across diverse platforms

Get in Touch

  • Email: shenyihao@shu.edu.cn

We welcome contributors, collaborators, and curious minds from around the world. Join us in shaping the future of open communication and AI-driven systems!