Our 4th RISC-V Workshop was hosted at MIT in Cambridge, MA, this past July 12-13, 2016. The Workshop agenda is shown below together with slides and videos from each of the talks. We had tremendous participation with 266 registered attendees representing 63 companies and 42 universities from around the world.
About the Workshop
The goals for our RISC-V workshops are for the community to share information about recent activity in various RISC-V projects underway around the globe, and to build consensus on future steps with the RISC-V ISA. This workshop features talks and poster presentations conveying recent activity in the RISC-V community at large, collected during an open submission period.
Agenda
Tuesday, July 12th, 2016
| Time | Event | Speaker, Affiliation | Media |
| 8:00am | Networking Breakfast | ||
| 8:30am | Workshop Logistics and RISC-V Foundation Update | Rick O’Connor, RISC-V | Slides | Video |
| 9:00am | RISC-V Interrupts | Krste Asanović, UC Berkeley & SiFive Inc. | Slides | Video |
| 9:30am | Formal Specification of RISC-V Uniprocessor Consistency | Arvind, MIT | Slides | Video |
| 10:00am | Heterogeneous Multicore RISC-V Processors in FD-SOI Silicon | Thomas Peyret, CEA Tech | Slides | Video |
| 10:30am | Networking Break | ||
| 11:00am | NVIDIA RISC-V Evaluation Story | Joe Xie, NVIDIA | Slides | Video |
| 11:30am | ISA Shootout – a Comparison of RISC-V, ARM, and x86 | Chris Celio, UC Berkeley | Slides | Video |
| 12:00pm | Trace Debugging in lowRISC | Wei Song, University of Cambridge | Slides | Video |
| 12:30pm | Networking Lunch | ||
| 1:30pm | RISC-V I/O Scale Out Architecture for Distributed Data Analytics | Mohammad Akhter, IDT | Slides | Video |
| 2:00pm | Coherent Storage: Brave New World of Non-Volatile Main Memory | Dejan Vucinić, Western Digital | Slides | Video |
| 2:30pm | RISC-V as basis for ASIP Design – an IoT Security Example | Dan Ganousis, Codasip Drake Smith, Secure RF | Slides | Video |
| 3:00pm | An Update on Building the RISC-V Software Ecosystem | Arun Thomas, BAE Systems | Slides | Video |
| 3:15pm | ORCA-LVE: Embedded RISC-V with Lightweight Vector Extensions | Guy Lemieux, VectorBlox | Slides | Video |
| 3:30pm | Networking Break & Breakout Sessions | ||
| 4:00pm | FPGArduino: A Cross-Platform RISC-V IDE for masses | Marko Zec, University of Zagreb | Slides | Video |
| 4:15pm | SiFive’s RISC-V computer: An open software development platform for RISC-V SoCs | Jack Kang, SiFive | Slides | Video |
| 4:30pm | 18 Poster / Demo Previews ~ 3min per presenter | Slides | Video | |
| 5:30pm | Leave to walk over to the Google facility at 355 Main St. | ||
| 6:00pm | Networking Reception, Posters Sessions & Demos | Hosted at Google, 355 Main St. | |
| 8:00pm | Adjourn for the Day |
Wednesday, July 13th, 2016
| Time | Event | Speaker, Affiliation | Media |
| 8:00am | Networking Breakfast | ||
| 8:30am | Riscy Processors – A Collection of Open-Sourced RISC-V Processors | Andy Wright, MIT | Slides | Video |
| 9:00am | SW Programmable FPGA IoT Platform: RISC-V Processor with Auto-Generated HW Accelerators | Andrew Canis, LegUp Computing | Slides | Video |
| 9:30am | Apache Mynewt: The Next Great Open Source OS for 32-Bit MCUs. Coming soon to a RISC-V MCU near you! | James Pace, Runtime | Slides | Video |
| 10:00am | DSP ISA Extensions for an Open-Source RISC-V Implementation | Pasquale Davide Schiavone, ETH Zurich | Slides | Video |
| 10:15am | The DOVER Edge: A Metadata-Enhanced RISC-V Architecture | Andre DeHon, DRAPER Labs | Slides | Video |
| 10:30am | Networking Break | ||
| 11:00am | Improving The Performance Per Area Factor of RISC-V Based Multi-Core Systems | Tobias Strauch, EDAptix | Slides | Video |
| 11:15am | Working Towards a Debian RISC-V Port | Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo | Slides | Video |
| 11:30am | Kami: A Framework for RISC-V HW Verification | Murali Vijayaraghavan, MIT | Slides | Video |
| 11:45pm | 4th RISC-V Workshop Wrap Up | Rick O’Connor, RISC-V Foundation | no slides | Video |
| 12:00pm | Networking Lunch (Workshop Ends) |