Apple-CORE has refined the D-RISC processor design previously designed at the University of Amsterdam, and grouped multiple D-RISC cores together to form Microgrids. More details available here.
Technology highlights:
Overview article over the Apple-CORE architecture advances:
Raphael Poss, Mike Lankamp, Qiang Yang, Jian Fu, Michiel W. van Tol, Irfan Uddin, and Chris Jesshope. Apple-CORE: harnessing general-purpose many-cores with hardware concurrency management. Microprocessors and Microsystems, June 2013.
Apple-CORE has produced an FPGA prototype of a D-RISC core called UTLEON3. Simultaneously, the project also produced a variety of programming tools to target Microgrids.
Apple-CORE has inspired multiple projects and forked into new initiatives: