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RISC-V Foundation at Design Automation Conference (DAC) Proceedings

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RISC-V Foundation at Design Automation Conference (DAC) Proceedings

June 24 – 27, 2018


The 54th Design Automation Conference (DAC) was held at the Moscone Center West, in San Francisco from June 25 – 25, 2018. DAC 2018 demonstrated the exciting momentum of the RISC-V ecosystem. The RISC-V Foundation booth featured member companies Imperas Software, Microsemi, SiFive, Syntacore, UltraSoC and Western Digital. Throughout the event, the RISC-V Foundation hosted panels and speaking  sessions, held a scavenger hunt and hosted networking happy hours. 
DAC invited the Foundation to present the RISC-V Ecosystem – Reshaping the CPU Landscape workshop on how the free and open RISC-V ISA is creating a paradigm shift in industry, reinvigorating semiconductor design and reshaping traditional business models. The workshop featured sessions from RISC-V Foundation Executive Director Rick O’Connor, Markus Levy and Alex Badicioiu at NXP, and Palmer Dabbelt at SiFive.
Rick O’Connor at the RISC-V Foundation also participated in the panel Core Choices: How To Navigate The Brave New World Of IP, which was hosted by Junko Yoshida at EE Times. David Patterson, vice chair of the RISC-V Foundation’s Board of Directors, presented his keynote A New Golden Age For Computer Architecture: Domain Specific Accelerators and Open RISC-V to DAC attendees. Other sessions at DAC also featured members of the RISC-V ecosystem including Krste Asonvic at SiFive, and Abbas Rehimi, Davide Rossi and Luca Benini at ETH Zurich.

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Check out slides from some of the sessions below and stay tuned for the videos.

Sunday, June 24, 2018

Time Session Speaker, Affiliation Slides
1:00pm RISC-V ISA & Foundation Overview Rick O’Connor, RISC-V Foundation Slides
RISC-V – A Diversity of Core and Accelerator Choices Markus Levy, NXP Slides
RISC-V OS Landscape Palmer Dabbelt, SiFive Slides
Designing a Custom RISC-V Core Using Chisel Alex Badicioiu, NXP Slides
4:00pm Wrap Up

Monday, June 25, 2018

Time Session Speaker, Affiliation Slides
11:00am RISC-V ISA & Foundation Overview Rick O’Connor, RISC-V Foundation Slides
12:00pm Introducing The Latest RISC-V Core IP Series Drew Barbier, SiFive Slides
1:00pm Panel: Meet The RISC-V Members at DAC 2018
2:00pm Fueling The RISC-V Ecosystem with Microsemi’s Mi-V Programmable Solutions Ted Marena, Microsemi Slides
3:00pm Machine Learning with RISC-V Filip Blagojevic, Western Digital Slides
4:00pm It’s Not Just The Core, It’s The System: Processor Trace In A Holistic World Randy Fish, UltraSoc Slides
4:30pm RISC-V Virtual Platforms, Simulators and Software Tools Simon Davidmann, Imperas Software Slides
5:00pm RISC-V: Enabling Innovation In Embedded and Enterprise Data-Centric Computing Architectures; Networking Event and Daily Prize Draw Zvonimir Bandic, Western Digital Slides

Tuesday, June 26, 2018

Time Session Speaker, Affiliation Slides
11:00am RISC-V ISA & Foundation Overview Rick O’Connor, RISC-V Foundation Slides
12:00pm It’s Not Just The Core, It’s The System: Processor Trace In A Holistic World Randy Fish, UltraSoc Slides
1:00pm Panel: The Key Role for the Commercial Software Tools Ecosystem for RISC-V
2:00pm RISC-V Support for Persistent Memory Systems Matheus Ogleari, Western Digital Slides
3:00pm RISC-V Virtual Platforms, Simulators and Software Tools Simon Davidmann, Imperas Software Slides
4:00pm Introducing The Latest RISC-V Core IP Series Drew Barbier, SiFive Slides
4:30pm SCRx Family of The RISC-V Compatible Processor IP Alexander Redkin, Syntacore Slides
5:00pm Keynote on Vision and History of RISC-V; Networking Event and Daily Prize Draw Yunsup Lee and Ali Sana, SiFive Slides

Wednesday, June 27, 2018

Time Session Speaker, Affiliation Slides
11:00am Fueling The RISC-V Ecosystem with Microsemi’s Mi-V Programmable Solutions Ted Marena, Microsemi Slides
12:00pm SCRx family of The RISC-V Compatible Processor IP Alexander Redkin, Syntacore Slides
1:00pm Panel: New Markets & Applications for RISC-V
2:00pm Panel: Meet The RISC-V Foundation Board of Directors
3:00pm RISC-V ISA & Foundation Overview; Daily Prize Draw Rick O’Connor, RISC-V Foundation Slides

 

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