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RISC-V Workshop in Chennai Proceedings

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RISC-V Workshop in Chennai

July 18-19, 2018


The RISC-V Workshop in Chennai, India took place July 18-19, 2018. Hosted by The Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) and sponsored by Western Digital, the RISC-V Workshop in Chennai discussed current and prospective RISC-V projects and implementations to influence the future evolution of the instruction set architecture (ISA) from Silicon Valley to Silicon Fenn and beyond.
The event featured in-depth technical presentations and updates on the RISC-V architecture, a speaking lineup from leading technology companies and research institutions in the RISC-V ecosystem, opportunities for networking and a demo zone showing the latest innovations in the market.

Proceedings

Check out the slides from each of the sessions below.

Wednesday, July 18, 2018

Time Event Speaker, Affiliation Slides
8:00 am Registration & Breakfast
8:55 am Welcome address and about the Workshop Kamakoti Veezinathan, IIT Madras and G S Madhusudan, InCore Semiconductors
9:00 am RISC-V ISA & Foundation Overview Rick O’Connor, RISC-V Foundation Slides | Video
9:15 am RISCV ISA: Understanding Limitations and Methods to Improve Code Density & Performance Gnanasekar Rajakumar and Ravikumar Gaddam, Western Digital Slides | Video
9:30 am Going Beyond the RISC-V General Purpose Solutions Neel Gala, InCore Semiconductors Slides | Video
10:00 am Architecture Exploration of RISC-V Processor and Comparison with ARM Cortex A53 and A72 Karthikeyan Sugumaran and Tom Jose, Mirabilis Design Slides | Video
10:30 am Networking Break
11:00 am It’s Not About the Core, It’s About the System Gajinder Panesar, UltraSoC Slides | Video
11:30 am RiTA: RISC-V Trace Analyzer Anmol Sahoo, IIT Madras and Neel Gala, InCore Semiconductors Slides | Video
11:45 am KEYNOTE: RISC-V: Enabling a New Era of Open Data-Centric Computing Architectures Vivek Tyagi, Western Digital Slides | Video
12:10 pm Networking Lunch
13:30 pm Accelerating the RISC-V Revolution: Unleashing Custom Silicon with Revolutionary Design Platforms and Custom Accelerators Huzefa Cutlerywala, SiFive Slides | Video
14:00 pm Mi-V RISC-V Embedded Ecosystem Krishnakumar Ranamoorthi, Microsemi Slides | Video
14:15 pm Verification of the PULPino SoC Platform Using UVM Mahesh R, Cisma Consultants and Shamanth HK, Cisma Consultants Slides | Video
14:30 pm Porting Graphical Stacks to RISC-V using QEMU and Yocto Atish Patra, Western Digital Slides | Video
14:45 pm Networking Break
15:15 pm Panel: Evolving a RISC-V Based Ecosystem in India Vivek Tyagi, Western Digital
Konala Varma, Intel
Mahesha Nanjundaiah, HPE
Asutosh Upadhyay, Axilor Ventures
Amudhan Balasubramanian, HCL Technologies
G S Madhusudan, InCore Semiconductors
Video
16:15 pm Poster / Demo Previews Andrea Bocco and Tiago Trevian Jost, CEA LETI
Shubhodeep Choudhury, Valtrix
Kevin McDermott, Imperas Software
Atish Patra, Western Digital
Gajinder Panesar, UltraSoC
Slides (CEA LETI)
Slides (Valtrix)
Slides (Imperas)
Slides (Western Digital)
Slides (UltraSoC)
Video
17:00 pm Evening Reception, Poster Sessions and Demos

Thursday, July 19, 2018

Time Event Speaker, Affiliation Slides
8:00 am Registration & Breakfast
9:00 am RISC-V Software Development Methodology for RISC-V Devices with RTOS and Linux or Both Kevin McDermott, Imperas Software Slides | Video
9:30 am Linux Kernel on RISC-V: Where Do We Stand? Atish Patra and Damien Le Moal, Western Digital Slides | Video
10:00 am A Comprehensive Framework For Power-Based Side-Channel Leakage Evaluation of SHAKTI C-Class Muhammad Arsath and Chester Rebeiro, IIT Madras Slides | Video
10:30 am Networking Break
11:00 am RISECREEK: From RISC-V Spec to 22FFL Silicon Vinod Ganesan and Gopinathan Muthuswamy, IIT Madras Slides | Video
11:30 am Shakti M-Class Libre RISC-V SoC Luke Leighton, Independent Slides | Video
12:00 pm SLSV: The Shakti LockStep Verification Framework Paul George and Lavanya Jagan, IIT Madras Slides | Video
12:30 pm Networking Lunch
14:00 pm A Survey of E31 RISC-V Core Floor-Plan and Its Impact on Power, Performance and Area (PPA) Kunal Ghosh and Anagha Ghosh, VLSI System Design Slides | Video
14:30 pm Integrating Gen-Z in Server-Class RISC-V Processors Mohan Parthasarathy, HPE Slides | Video
15:00 Formal Specification of the RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture Rishiyur Nikhil and Niraj Sharma, Bluespec Slides | Video
15:30 pm RISC-V Workshop Chennai Conclusion Rick O’Connor, RISC-V Foundation Video

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