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RISC-V Summit 2019 – Proceedings

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RISC-V Summit Proceedings

December, 2019

In December, 2019, the RISC-V Foundation held its second annual RISC-V Summit in San Jose, California, US. We would like to thank all of the summit’s many sponsors and exhibitors. This page hosts the proceedings from the summit, including slides and video.

Agenda and Presentation Slides

Keynotes

 

Welcome Address: Exponential Progress across Industries and Around the World with RISC-V Calista Redmond – CEO, RISC-V Foundation Slides
State of the Union Krste Asanovic – Professor | Chief Architect, UC Berkeley | SiFive Slides
Unshackling Memory! Martin Fink, Western Digital Slides
Open for Business: True Stories of How Far We’ve Come With the RISC-V Ecosystem Ted Speers – Head of Product Planning for FPGA Business, Microchip Technology Inc. Slides
Lightning Talks Marianne Damstra – CCO, Solid Sands Slides
Stefano Giaconi – Cofounder & CTO, Chronos Tech Slides
Ulli Mueller – Senior Vice President Sales & Marketing, Think Silicon Slides
Ruby Sponsor SiFive presents: Taking RISC-V into New Markets Yunsup Lee – CTO, SiFive Slides
RISC-V and Chips Alliance Address new Compute Requirements Zvonimir Bandic – Sr. Director, Next Gen Platform Technologies | Chairman of the Board, CHIPS Alliance, Western Digital | CHIPS Alliance
Dejan Vucinic – Director, NVM Systems Architecture, Western Digital
Slides
An Open Source Approach to System Security Helena Handschuh – Rambus Fellow & Chair, RISC-V Foundation Security Standing Committee, Rambus Slides
How RISC-V made the Quick Jump from Academia to Industry and Why it will Change the Entire Semiconductor Industry – a Venture Capital perspective Stefan Dyckerhoff – Managing Director, Sutter Hill Ventures Slides
Open Source Processor IP for High Volume Production SoCs: CORE-V Family of RISC-V Cores Rick O’ Connor – Founder, President & CEO, OpenHW Group Slides
Keynote Panel: Opportunity and Risks in Open Source Hardware Krste Asanovic – Professor | Chief Architect, UC Berkeley | SiFive
Mendy Furmanek – IBM Director – OpenPOWER Processor Enablement; OpenPOWER President, IBM
Joseph Jacks – Founder and CEO, OSS Capital
Brandon Lewis – Editor-in-Chief, Open Systems Media
Tim Whitfield – VP Strategy Embedded and Automotive, ARM
Slides
Qualcomm Diamond Sponsor Session: Global Ambitions for RISC-V Calista Redmond – CEO, RISC-V Foundation
Travis Lanier – Senior Director, Product Management, Qualcomm
Rob Oshana – VP Software Engineering, NXP
Yu Pu – IoT SOC Lead, Alibaba
Slides
RISC-V of Samsung in the age of 5G and AI Junho Huh – Master (Research VP), System LSI Business, Samsung Electronics Slides

Hardware/Architecture

 

Code Size of RISC-V versus ARM using the Embench™ 0.5 Benchmark Suite: What is the Cost of ISA Simplicity? David Patterson – Vice Chair, RISC-V Foundation Slides
Every CPU Cycle Counts Gajinder Panesar – CTO, UltraSoC
Iain Robertson – VP Engineering, UltraSoC
Slides
A RISC-V ISA Extension for Ultra-Low Power IoT Wireless Signal Processing Zdeněk Přikryl – CTO, Codasip Slides
Software PPA Metrics: Results from Real-world MCU Security Applications Joe Circello – Fellow, Chief MCU Core Platform & Security Architect, NXP Semiconductors, N.V. Slides
An Open and Coherent Memory Centric Architecture Enabled by RISC-V Dejan Vucinic – Director, NVM Systems Architecture, Western Digital Slides
Ruby Sponsor SiFive presents: The Open Secure Platform Architecture of SiFive Shield Dany Nativel – Security Director, SiFive Slides
Software Flow for Complex SoC-FPGA Cyril Jean – Director, Embedded Systems Solutions, Microchip Technology Slides
Avoiding Amdahl’s Law: RISC-V Architecture Exploration for AI & ML Many-core Compute Arrays Simon Davidmann – CEO, Imperas Slides
Scalable, Configurable Neural Network Accelerator Based on RISC-V Core Karthik Wali – Staff Digital Design Engineer, LG Electronics Slides
Enabling the Full Power of a Multiprocessor SoC Jeff Hancock – Senior Product Manager, Mentor (a Siemens Company) Slides
RISC-V in Practical Education of Computer Architecture Stefan Wallentowitz – Professor, Munich University of Applied Sciences Slides
The Next Generation of GAP8: An IoT Application Processor for Inference at the Very Edge Martin Croome – VP, Business Development, Greenwaves Technologies Slides
Enabling AI on Low Power Endpoint Devices Utilizing the QuickLogic and SiFive Freedom Aware Templates Brian Faith – CEO, QuickLogic Corporation Slides
RISC-V For Heterogeneous Computing Justin Cormack – Security Lead, Docker Slides
Ruby Sponsor SiFive presents: The SiFive Vector Processor Mark Throndson – Senior Director of Product Management and Marketing, SiFive Slides
SweRV Cores Roadmap Zvonimir Bandic – Sr. Director, Next Gen Platform Technologies | Chairman of the Board, CHIPS Alliance, Western Digital | CHIPS Alliance
Robert Golla – Senior Fellow, Western Digital
Slides
Processor IP Showcase Kevin Chen – Senior Architect, Andes Technology Slides
Drew Barbier – Sr. Manager, SiFive Core IP Product Marketing, SiFive Slides
Zvonimir Bandic – Sr. Director, Next Gen Platform Technologies | Chairman of the Board, CHIPS Alliance, Western Digital | CHIPS Alliance Coming Soon
Karel Masarik – CEO and Founder, Codasip Slides
Arjun Menon – Senior Project Officer, IIT Madras | Shakti Project Slides
Alexander Redkin – Executive Director, Co-Founder, Syntacore Slides
Rick O’ Connor – Founder, President & CEO, OpenHW Group Slides
Gajinder Panesar – CTO, UltraSoC Coming Soon
Anand Joshi – Anlayst, Computer Vision & AI, Tractica Slides
Innovation in CPU Architecture, Pushing Data from Edge to Cloud Caffrey Chen – Chief Processor Architect, Alibaba Slides
Andes RISC-V Processor Solutions: From MCU to Datacenters Charlie Su – CTO and SVP of R&D, Andes Technology Corporation Slides
Ara 2.0: 64-bit RISC-V Vector Processor in 22nm FD-SOI Matheus Cavalcante – PhD Student, ETH Zurich Slides
Prototyping RISC-V Based Heterogeneous Systems-on-Chip with the ESP Open-Source Platform Luca Carloni – Professor, Columbia University Slides
SafeRV: Building Blocks for Safety Critical RISC-V Systems Neel Gala – CTO, InCore Semiconductors Pvt. Ltd.
Bertrand Tavernier – VP Software Research & Technologies, Thales
Coming Soon
RISC-V Verification for Processor Cores and Optional Custom Extensions Simon Davidmann – CEO, Imperas
Lee Moore – Lead Engineer, Imperas
Richard Ho – Principal Hardware Engineer, Google
Doug Letcher – President and CEO, Metrics Technologies, Inc.
Coming Soon
Designing and Building Modern Modular SoCs using Open-Source Federation Tools Jack Koenig – Engineer, SiFive Coming Soon
GNU CGEN for RISC-V Tool Chain Customization Mary Bennett – Engineer, University of Surrey
Ed Jones – Engineer, Embecosm
Coming Soon
RISC-V Bit-Manipulation ISA Extension: Spec, Hardware, Software Ken Dockser – Senior Director of Technology, Corporate R&D, Qualcomm
Clifford Wolf – CTO, Symbiotic EDA
Coming Soon
Chipyard and FireSim: End-to-End Architecture Exploration with RISC-V SoC Generators, FPGA-Accelerated Simulation and Agile Test Chips Alon Amid – Graduate Student, UC Berkeley
David Biancolin – Ph.D Candidate, University of California, Berkeley, U.C. Berkeley
Abraham Gonzalez – Ph.D. Student, U.C. Berkeley
Sagar Karandikar – PhD Student, UC Berkeley, UC Berkeley
Colin Schmidt – Graduate Student, UC Berkeley
Jerry Zhao – PhD Student, UC Berkeley, UC Berkeley
Coming Soon

Security/Verification

 

Emerald Sponsor Microchip presents: Getting started with PolarFire SoC Hugh Breslin – Design Engineer, Microchip Technology
Anton Krug – Development Engineer, Microchip Technology
Slides
Architectural Extensions for a RISC-V Processor for Embedded Security Tariq Kurd – CPU Architect, Huawei UK Slides
System-Level Security Verification of RISC-V Based SoCs Nicole Fern – Senior Hardware Security Engineer, Tortuga Logic, Inc. Slides
The RISC-V Open ISA’s shock Wave of Processor Innovation that’s Causing a Seismic Shift in SoC Verification Requirements Ann Mutschler – Executive Editor/EDA, Semiconductor Engineering
Simon Davidmann – CEO, Imperas
Richard Ho – Principal Hardware Engineer, Google
Emerson Hsiao – Senior VP, Andes Technology USA Corp.
Dave Kelf – Chief Marketing Officer, Breker Verification Systems
Frank Schirrmeister – Senior Group Director, Product Management, System Development, System & Verification Group (SVG), Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
Mike Thompson – Director of Verification Engineering, OpenHW Group
Slides
Introducing Scalable New Core IP for Mission Critical Use Aniket Saha – Director of Product Marketing, SiFive
Murali Vijayaraghavan – Principal Engineer, SiFive
Slides
Open Source Verification Platform for RISC-V Processors Tao Liu – Senior Hardware Engineer, Google
Richard Ho – Principal Hardware Engineer, Google
Slides
Democratising Formal Verification of RISC-V Processors Ashish Darbari – CEO, Axiomise Limited Slides
RISC-V and a Meta-framework Security Certification Approach for a Secure Connected World John Boggie – Director, Head of Cybersecurity Certification, NXP Semiconductors Slides
Formal Methods for Hardware-Software Integration on RISC-V Embedded Systems Samuel Gruetter – PhD student in Computer Science, MIT Slides
RISC-V Enclaves: A Clean Slate Approach To Linux Security Cesare Garlati – Co-Founder, Hex Five Security Slides
seL4 on RISC-V: Verified OS for True Security Gernot Heiser – Professor UNSW Sydney and seL4 Evangelist, Data61, Data61 and UNSW Sydney Coming Soon
RISC-V: A New Zero-Trust Model for Cyber Resilient Avionics Kevin Kinsella – System Architect, Northrop Grumman Slides
Different Trace Methods and Efficient Ways to Utilize Them Thomas Andersson – Product Manager, IAR Systems
Robert Chyla – Lead Emulation Architect, IAR Systems
Slides
OneSpin presents: More than the Core: Verifying RISC-V SoCs Nicolae Tusinschi – Product Specialist Design Verification, OneSpin Solutions Coming Soon
Debugging on Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Multicore SoCs Containing a Mix of RISC-V and non-RISC-V Cores Hugh O’Keeffe – Engineering Director, Ashling
Roisin O’Keeffe – VP, Business Enterprise, Ashling
Slides
RISC-V Processor Verification based on Open-source Framework and State-of-the-art Cloud-based Methodologies Lee Moore – Lead Engineer, Imperas
Richard Ho – Principal Hardware Engineer, Google
Coming Soon
Ruby Sponsor SiFive presents: Enabling Security with AWS Qualified IoT Devices David Lee – Director of Product Management, SiFive Coming Soon
Verifying RISC-V Vector and Bit Manipulation Extensions using STING Design Verification Tool Shubhodeep Choudhury – CEO, Valtrix Slides Coming Soon
Rambus presents: Challenges and Benefits of Certification for Security Hardware Ben Levine – Senior Director, Product Management, Rambus Coming Soon
An Efficient Runtime Validation Framework based on the Theory of Refinement Mitesh Jain – Staff R&D Engineer, Synopsys Inc Slides
A Tour of the RISC-V ISA Formal Specification Rishiyur Nikhil – CTO, Bluespec, Inc. Coming Soon
seL4 on RISC-V Renode Jesse Millwood – Embedded Engineer, DornerWorks Slides
How to Secure a RISC-V System in 90 minutes – From Single Core MCU to Mixed Criticality SMP Linux Cesare Garlati – Co-Founder, Hex Five Security
Sandro Pinto – Research Scientist and Invited Professor, Universidade do Minho
Coming Soon

Software

Linux on RISC-V — Fedora and Firmware Status Update Wei Fu – Software Engineer, Red Hat Slides
Headline Sponsor Western Digital presents: GCC Compiler: Code Size Density Nidal Faour – Staff Engineer, R&D Engineering – Firmware & Toolchain, CTO Group, Western Digital
Ofer Shinaar – Manager, R&D Engineering – Firmware & Toolchain, CTO Group, Western Digital
Slides
Open Source Compiler Tool Chains for RISC-V: Past, Present and Future Jeremy Bennett – Chief Executive, Embecosm Slides
The RISC-V Journey Through Containers to the Cloud Carlos Eduardo de Paula – Senior Cloud Architect, Red Hat Slides
Developing with FreeRTOS and RISC-V Richard Barry – Founder | Principal Engineer, FreeRTOS | Amazon Web Services Coming Soon
Next-generation IDE for your RISC-V Product in 20 Minutes Ivan Kravets – CEO, PlatformIO Slides
SEGGER presents: Visualizing and Recording the true Runtime Behavior of a RISC-V based Application — in real-time Axel Wolf – Sr. Staff Field Applications Engineer, SEGGER Microcontroller LLC Slides
Code Density Improvements Beyond The C Standard Extension Zdeněk Přikryl – CTO, Codasip Slides
RISC-V Software State of the Union Randy Allen – VP, RISC-V Software, SiFive Coming Soon
Production-ready RISC-V Support in LLVM/Clang 9.0 – How we Got There and What’s Next Alex Bradbury – Director, lowRISC CIC Coming Soon
Integrate RISC-V to build Open Common Automotive Platform Tiejun Chen – Technical Leader and Staff Engineer, VMware Coming Soon
Headline Sponsor Western Digital presents: RISC-V Hypervisor Support Alistair Francis – Principal System Engineer, Western Digital
Anup Patel – Technologist, Western Digital
Coming Soon
Working Towards a Common C Library for Small RISC-V Systems Keith Packard – Principal Engineer, SiFive Coming Soon
Fomu: Python, RISC-V, and FPGA in your USB Port Tim Ansell – Software Engineer, Google
Michael Gielda – VP Business Development, Antmicro
Coming Soon
An Introduction to RISC-V Boot Flow Atish Patra – Principal R&D Engineer, Western Digital
Anup Patel – Technologist, Western Digital
Slides

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