A Game of Soft Processors: The Ascendancy of RISC-V for FPGA Systems (FCCM 2019 panel)
Channel: Jan Gray | Gray Research LLC
Date: 2023-11-03

Jan's "RISC-V Soft Processor Panel" presentation at FCCM 2019, UCSD, April 4, 2019.

Summary: For FPGA soft processor embedded systems, FPGA vendors should, and will, transition from proprietary instruction set architectures to RISC-V. Also, the utility of soft processors, and of kilocore soft processor arrays for better design productivity when moving software workloads to FPGA datacenter accelerators. Also, 2019 work-in-progress towards 2GRVI Phalanx on AMD / Xilinx Virtex UltraScale+ HBM FPGAs, and the then new RISC-V FPGA Soft Processor SIG, opportunities and aspirations.