There is a relevant comment on the article, reproducing here in case it gets edited out: "Hi DigitalEngineer, I am a member of the PULP group as a researcher

There is a relevant comment on the article, reproducing here in case it gets edited out: "Hi DigitalEngineer, I am a member of the PULP group as a researcher in both University of Bologna and ETH Zurich. You are right that the tool chain and the multi-core platform have not been released in the open yet. However, we are working hard toward releasing both of them - we never intended PULPino to be the "final" step in open-sourcing the PULP platform, but merely the first step. Eventually, our plan is to release the whole platform, save of course for IPs that depend on private agreements between ETHand/or University of Bologna and other parties. For several reasons our RISC-V toolchain could not be open-sourced together with PULPino. I cannot give a definite date, but we should be able to solve most problems related with it relatively soon, and then it will be open-sourced immediately. For a public release of the multi-core platform (which is one of our main objectives - hence the name PULP that stands for Parallel Ultra-Low Power Platform), there will be need of a bit more time. We want this to be well polished and ready. However, parties interested in collaborating can already contact us privately (e.g. via the contacts on our website http://pulp-platform.org http://pulp-platform.org). Hope this solves some of your doubts!"