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6th RISC-V Workshop Proceedings

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6th RISC-V Workshop Proceedings

Shanghai, China May 8-11, 2017

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[clear]The proceedings for the 6th RISC-V Workshop, co-hosted by NVIDIA and the Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) in Shanghai China on May 8-11, 2017 can be found below.  This was our first RISC-V Foundation workshop held outside of North America and as with past workshops, this event was sold out with over 270 registered attendees.  Our goals for the workshops are to bring the RISC-V community together to share information about recent activity in the various RISC-V projects underway around the globe, and to build consensus on the future evolution of the RISC-V instruction set architecture.
This workshop was a four day event broken down as follow:

  • Monday May 8, 2017 – Introduction to RISC-V – this day long session was held for those who were new to RISC-V and have yet to be exposed to the RISC-V ISA.  The session consisted of presentations from the RISC-V Foundation, some of the original creators of the RISC-V ISA and product presentations from vendors within the RISC-V community.
  • Tuesday and Wednesday May 9-10, 2017 – These two days followed our traditional two day format with presentations covering various RISC-V projects underway within the RISC-V community and will included a poster / demo reception on Tuesday evening.
  • Thursday May 11, 2017 – The workshop week concluded with RISC-V Foundation meetings with attendance restricted to members of the RISC-V Foundation.  The day consisted of Technical and Marketing Committee face to face meetings to progress the work currently underway within our various Task Groups.

Each workshop has helped both document the rapidly rising popularity of RISC-V and boosted it further due to the information shared and collaborations formed at the event.
The 7th RISC-V workshop will be hosted by Western Digital in Milpitas California the week of November 27th, 2017.  Save the date and please join us!  Registration details and the Call for Papers will be posted later this summer.

6th Workshop Agenda & Proceedings

Monday, May 8th, 2017 Introduction To RISC-V

Time Event Speaker, Affiliation Media
8:00am Registration and Networking Breakfast
9:00am RISC-V Introduction – Opening Remarks Rick O’Connor, Executive Director, RISC-V Foundation; Professor Zhigang Mao, Department of Micro/Nano Electronics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Video
9:15am History of Computer Architecture and RISC Dave Patterson, Pardee Professor of Computer Science, Emeritus, UC Berkeley and author of “Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach” Slides | Video
10:15am Networking Break
10:45am Why RISC-V? “Instruction Sets Want to be Free” Krste Asanovic, Professor UC Berkeley, Chairman RISC-V Foundation, Co-Founder SiFive Slides | Video
11:45am Introduction to the RISC-V Foundation Rick O’Connor, Executive Director, RISC-V Foundation Slides | Video
12:15pm Morning Session Wrap UP Rick O’Connor, Executive Director, RISC-V Foundation
12:30pm Networking Lunch
1:30pm RISC-V Member Company Introductions Various RISC-V Foundation Member Companies Slides | Video
2:15pm RISC-V Foundation Mini Trade Show Various RISC-V Foundation Member Companies
5:00pm Adjourn for the Day

Tuesday, May 9th, 2017 6th RISC-V Workshop Day 1

Time Event Speaker, Affiliation Media
8:00am Registration and Networking Breakfast
8:45am 6th RISC-V Workshop Introduction Rick O’Connor, RISC-V Foundation Slides | Video
9:00am Taking RISC-V to Mainstream ASICs Charlie Su, Andes Technology Slides | Video
9:30am Labeled RISC-V: A New Perspective on Software-Defined Architecture Zihao Yu, ICT Chinese Academy of Sciences Slides | Video
10:00am RISC-V Privileged Architecture Andrew Waterman, SiFive Slides | Video
10:30am Networking Break
11:00am RISC-V Foundation Update Rick O’Connor, RISC-V Foundation Slides | Video
11:15am RISC-V Technical Committee Update Yunsup Lee, SiFive Slides | Video
11:30am RISC-V Marketing Committee Update Jack Kang, SiFive Slides | Video
11:45am Panel Discussion: RISC-V in China Video
12:30pm Networking Lunch
1:45pm Keynote Address: RISC-V at NVIDIA Frans Sijstermans, NVIDIA Slides | Video
2:30pm SCR1 – open-source RISC-V compatible MCU core with support Ekaterina Berezina, Syntacore Slides | Video
2:45pm Making RISC-V IP easy to play with and evaluate Jack Kang, SiFive Slides | Video
3:00pm Automated RISC-V Verification Flow Utilizing Simulation, Formal, and Emulation Technologies Marcela Zachariasova, Codasip Slides | Video
3:30pm Networking Break
4:00pm Reprogrammable Logic in a RISC-V based SoC Alok Sanghavi, Achronix Slides | Video
4:30pm A RISC-V Instruction-set extension for baseband processing applications Cecil Accetti, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Slides | Video
4:45pm Poster / Demo Previews ~ 2min per presenter Slides | Video
5:15pm Transition to Reception
5:30pm Networking Reception, Posters Sessions and Demos
9:00pm Adjourn for the Day

Wednesday, May 10th, 2017 6th RISC-V Workshop Day 2

Time Event Speaker, Affiliation Media
8:00am Networking Breakfast
9:00am Dual-core Lockstep Processor using RISC-V Softcores Sathish Odiga, Microsemi Slides | Video
9:30am The 4th lowRISC release: Tagged memory and minion cores Wei Song, University of Cambridge / lowRISC Slides | Video
10:00am Status of the RISC-V Memory Consistency Model Daniel Lustig, NVIDIA Slides | Video
10:30am Networking Break
11:00am Keynote Address: Impedance Matching Expectations Between RISC-V and the Open Hardware Community Bunnie Huang Slides | Video
12:00pm Networking Lunch
1:30pm Panel Discussion: RISC-V Ask Me Anything Video
2:15pm Modern Software Development Methodology for RISC-V Devices Larry Lapides, Imperas Slides | Video
2:45pm RISC-V Debug Updates Megan Wachs, SiFive Slides | Video
3:15pm Networking Break
3:45pm RISC-V Hardware Accelerated Dynamic Binary Translation Simon Rokicki, IRISA Slides | Video
4:15pm 28 Microwatt RV32IMAC Lauri Koskinen, Minima Processor Slides | Video
4:30pm 6th RISC-V Workshop Conclusion Rick O’Connor, RISC-V Foundation Video
4:45pm End of Workshop

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