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Summit Attendance / Ecosystem Growth
RISC-V Summit By the Numbers 1200
 over 1000 registered attendees

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 ~ 2X the attendance of the Milpitas

800

Workshop last year600

 ~ 250 abstracts submitted400

 59 sessions including keynotes,

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tutorials and 3 tracks
 29 exhibitors

Past Workshop Attendees North America

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So what’s all the fuss about?

Its just an ISA right?
How did we get here?
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RISC-V Background In 2010, after many years and many projects using

MIPS, SPARC, and x86 as basis of research, theComputer Science team at UC Berkeley to look atwhat ISAs to use for their next set of projects
 Obvious choices: x86 and ARM- x86 impossible – too complex, IP issues- ARM mostly impossible – complex, IP issues
 So UC Berkeley started “3-month project” during thesummer of 2010 to develop their own clean-slate ISA
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RISC-V Background (cont’d) Four years later, in May of 2014, UC Berkeley released

frozen base user spec- many tapeouts and several research publications along the way The name RISC-V (pronounced risk-five), was chosen torepresent the fifth major RISC ISA design effort at UC
Berkeley- RISC-I, RISC-II, SOAR, and SPUR were the first four projects withthe original RISC-I publications dating back to 1981

 In August 2015, articles of incorporation were filed tocreate a non-profit RISC-V Foundation to govern the ISA
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Most CPU chips are SoCs with many ISAs
 Applications processor
 Graphics processors
 Image processors
 Radio DSPs
 Audio DSPs
 Security processors
 Power-management processor
 ….

NVIDIA Tegra SoC

 Apps processor ISA too large for base accelerator ISA
 IP bought from different places, each proprietary ISA
 Home-grown ISA cores Over a dozen ISAs on some SoCs – each with unique software stack
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11Why so Many ISAs?

Do we need all these different ISAs?

Must they be proprietary?
What if there was one free and open
ISA everyone could use for everything?
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12What’s Different about RISC-V?
 Simple- Far smaller than other commercial ISAs Clean-slate design- Clear separation between user and privileged ISA- Avoids µarchitecture or technology-dependent features
 A modular ISA- Small standard base ISA- Multiple standard extensions
 Designed for extensibility/specialization- Variable-length instruction encoding- Vast opcode space available for instruction-set extensions
 Stable- Base and standard extensions are frozen- Additions via optional extensions, not new versions
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RISC-V Foundation Overview

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RISC-V Foundation Overview
 Incorporated August, 2015 as a 501c6 non-profit Foundation
 Membership Agreement & Bylaws ratified December 2016 The RISC-V ISA and related standards shall remain open andlicense-free to all parties- RISC-V ISA specifications shall always be publicly available as an onlinedownload

 The compliance test suites shall always be publicly available asa source code download
 To protect the standard, only members (with commercial
RISC-V products) of the Foundation in good standing can use“RISC-V” and associated trademarks, and only for devices thatpass the tests in the open-source compliance suites
maintained by the Foundation
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RISC-V Foundation Organization
 The Board of Directors consists of seven+ members, whosereplacements are elected by the membership The Board can amend the By-Laws of the RISC-V foundation via
a two-thirds affirmative vote
 The Board appoints chairs of ad-hoc committees to address
issues concerning RISC-V, and has the final vote of approval of
the recommendation of the ad-hoc committees.
- Technical Committee Chair – Yunsup Lee, SiFive- Security Standing Committer Chair - Helena Handschuh, Rambus- Marketing Committee Chair – Ted Marena, Western Digital All members of committees must be members of the RISC-VFoundation

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 Krste Asanović, Chairman- Professor in the EECS Department at UC Berkeley
 David Patterson, Vice-Chairman- Google Architect, Retired Professor Computer Science UC Berkeley
 Zvonimir Bandić- Senior Director of Next Generation Platform Technologies at WesternDigital Corporation
 Charlie Hauck- CEO of Bluespec Inc.
 Rob Oshana- Director Global SW Development at NXP Frans Sijstermans- Vice President Engineering at NVIDIA
 Ted Speers- Technical Fellow, Head of Product Architecture for Microchip / Microsemi
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Foundation: 200+ Members

RISC-V Foundation Growth HistorySeptember 2015 to December 2018
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RISC-V Global Growth

RISC-V Members in 27 Countries Around theWorld!
Representing ~52% of the global population!!
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RISC-V Global Event Series (2018-2019) 2018- RISC-V Workshop Barcelona (May)- RISC-V Day in Shanghai (June 30)- RISC-V Workshop in IIT Madras Chennai (July 18-19)- RISC-V Day in Tokyo (Oct. 18)- RISC-V Summit, Santa Clara (December 3 - 6)
 2019- RISC-V Workshop in Hsinchu, Taiwan (March)- Embedded World 2019 in Nürnberg, Germany (Feb)- RISC-V Workshop in Zurich (June)- And more...
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21Summary The free and open RISC-V ISA is enabling a new innovation

frontier for all computing devices
 Strong Industry Support- ~200+ members; Broad commercial and academic interest

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