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Individual levels of technical career achievement
RISC-V Distinguished Architect
This is the highest award for individuals who have made consistent architectural contributions to RISC-V that had a positive impact on the growth and acceptance of RISC-V. These contributions may include work on ratified ISA / Non-ISA specifications, or development in the RISC-V software ecosystem.
Initiated in 2022, RISC-V committee, group chairs, or RISC-V staff may nominate recipients. The process includes a majority approval vote from eligible TSC voters. Once TSC approves the nominee, the BoD must also approve the nominee. Approval will come with a letter and recognition on the RISC-V website.
RISC-V Technical Leader
The technical leader designation is reserved for those individuals who have led groups in the organization to bring specifications to ratification or complete work in the software ecosystem. The individual should have either led a group or technically led an effort that made a positive impact for RISC-V. The individual had to display exemplary human interactions skills to work with a group to accomplish their goals.
Initiated in 2022, RISC-V committee, group chairs, or RISC-V staff may nominate recipients. The process requires a majority approval vote from eligible TSC voters. Approval will come with a letter and recognition on the RISC-V website.
RISC-V Technical Innovator
The technical innovator category includes those individuals that have provided strong continuous technical contribution above and beyond expectations. This may include innovation in a specification or the software ecosystem contributing to the ratification and acceptance of RISC-V. Initiated in 2022, this level of recognition requires majority approval of the committee chairs. Approval will come with a letter and recognition on the RISC-V website.
RISC-V Certification
The RISC-V Foundational Associate (RVFA) exam demonstrates an individual possesses the fundamental, entry-level knowledge and skills required of RISC-V hardware and software professionals.
Board members
Board of Directors
The Board of Directors provides strategic guidance and overall management of RISC-V International. Full Duties and Powers of the Board are identified under Article 14 of the Articles of RISC-V International Association.
TSC
Technical Steering Committee
Technical Steering Committee duties include delegation of responsibilities to organizational components below it, strategy, escalations, group & chair & preliminary charter approvals, ratification. voting (most discussion and notification by email, web page listing and supporting docs, automated voting system). Additional information is available in the RISC-V Technical Organization deck.
Ambassadors
RISC-V Ambassadors
Technical experts engaged in community evangelism including local community groups, social media, conference speakers, blogs, videos, etc.
View the current roster of RISC-V Ambassadors / Apply to be an Ambassador
Organization programs
RISC-V Developer Boards Program
Evangelizes and promotes the RISC-V architecture by partnering with RISC-V hardware vendors to donate hardware to early adopters, academia, and software distributions. RISC-V collects results of this work in order to help others understand what is possible with RISC-V and promotes sharing experiences and best practices.
RISC-V Development Partner Program
Recognizes investment and dedication of member organizations making significant technical contributions to RISC-V in support of meeting the acceptance criteria necessary for ratification including the formal model, simulation, compatibility testing, and open source software ecosystem development. Development partners typically commit to working on 3 simultaneous medium sized projects for each year they participate in the program.
RISC-V Training Partners
Provide corporate and/or online RISC-V training.
View current Training Partners / Apply to become a Training Partner
RISC-V Alliances
Organizations we have a technical, geo, industry or other key relationship.
RISC-V Labs
(In formation stage) Provides RISC-V architecture, cloud resources for continuous integration (CI) testing and open source software porting or development.
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