Hardware and Infrastructure
Our chair provides development boards to support research activities, which are also available for use in student projects. In addition to RISC-V platforms and FPGAs, students have access to the computing infrastructure at the Chair of Computer Architecture and Parallel Systems (CAPS) in Garching.
Beagle V Ahead Single Board Computer (RISC-V, Linux)
Quantity: 3
Processor: T-Head TH1520 (quad-core Xuantie C910 processor)
Memory: 4GB LPDDR4
Storage:16GB eMMC
Features of Alibaba T-Head TH1520 SoC:
- 2GHz quad-core RISC-V 64GC Xuantie C910
- 3-issue 8-execution superscalar with out-of-order issue/completion/retirement
- 64KB I and 64KB D L1 per core
- 1MB shared L2 cache
- 4TOPS@INT8 neural processing unit (NPU) @ 1GHz
- 50GFLOPS, 3Mpixel/s Imagination BXM-4-64 graphics processing unit (GPU)
Resources: Get Started / Forum / Bug Tracker / Linux Distro / Docs Repo / LiveChat Discord
Banana Pi BPI F3 Single Board Computer (RISC-V, Linux)
CPU: 8-core SpacemiT K1
- Octa-core X60™ intelligent computing processor
- Eight-stage dual-issue in-order pipelining
- Supports 256-bit RVV1.0 standard.
- CPU combines 2.0 TOPS AI computing power.
- 1MB of shared L2 Cache for every eight cores.
- Single-core general computing power equivalent to 1.3 times Cortex-A55
- Supports 32-bit LPDDR4/4X, with a maximum of 16GB of memory
- 4K decoding and encoding
- 5-lane PCIE2.1 expansion capability
Resources: Get Started / Forum / Linux Distro (Biandu)
Beagle V Ahead Cluster (RISC-V, Linux)
Accessible nodes: 3 Beagle V Ahead SBCs
Features:
- Accessibility: Subnet managed by Tailscale
- Network Management: nmcli
- Shared File System: NFS
- Distributed Computing: ipyparallel
- Documentation: LRZ Gitlab
Acknowledgment
Many thanks to the contributor(s)
| rev0.1: Thomas Wirth (BIE student@TUM Campus Heilbronn) |
AMD® TUL PYNQ-Z2 (FPGA + ARM A9, Linux)
Quantity: 6
FPGA Part No.: XC7Z020-1CLG400C
Memory
- 512 Mbyte DDR3 with 16-bit bus @ 1050 Mbps
- 128 Mbit Quad-SPI Flash
- 32 GB Micro SD (Image Boot Loader)
Zynq-7000 SoC Features
- Dual ARM® Cortex™-A9 MPCore™ with CoreSight™
- 32 KB Instruction, 32 KB Data per processor L1 Cache
- 512 KB unified L2 Cache
- 256 KB On-Chip Memory
- 2x UART, 2x CAN 2.0B, 2x I2C, 2x SPI, 4x 32b GPIO
- 2x USB 2.0 (OTG), 2x Tri-mode Gigabit Ethernet, 2x SD/SDIO on-chip peripherals
- 85K logic cells (13300 logic slices, each with four 6-input LUTs and 8 flip-flops)
- 630 KB of fast block RAM
- Four clock management tiles, each with a phase-locked loop (PLL)
- 220 DSP slices
- Internal clock speeds exceeding 450MHz
- 2x 12 bit, 1 MSPS On-chip analog-to-digital converter (XADC)
CAPS Servers
Only available to student research assistants/theses works.
| Server Name | CPU/GPU /FPGA | RAM | Disk |
| sk2 | 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) Silver 4116 CPU @ 2.10GHz | 96GB DDR4 | 1TB System/Scratch |
| sksmall | 1x Intel(R) Xeon(R) Bronze 3106 CPU @ 1.70GHz | 16GB DDR4 | 1TB System/Scratch 256GB SSD/Scratch |
| zen1 | AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX 32-Core Processor 1x Nvidia A100 1x Nvidia T1000 1x Xilinx Alveo U55C | 64GB DDR4 | 1TB System/Scratch |
| fpga1 | 4x Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700 CPU 1x Xilinx FPGA | 32 GiB | 1 TB |