RISC-V Foundation Overview
- 2. Right here. Right now. Mainstream innovation on RISC-V. RISC-V foundation summit 2 The EU Is Progressing With The Processor For A European Supercomputer The Open Architecture RISC-V was chosen as the basis for the supercomputer, and the processor and platform developed with the European Processor Initiative (EPI) consortium. – TechNews. 5 June 2019 Alibaba announces roadmap of RISC-V SoC from Embedded to Cloud CPUs – Alibaba. May 2019 Western Digital releases their RISC-V Cores to the world… they will transition their consumption of silicon over to RISC-V, putting one Billion RISC-V cores per year into the marketplace – Hackaday. 13 February 2019 AWS Announces RISC-V Support in the FreeRTOS Kernel enabling embedded developers to create IoT applications on the officially supported FreeRTOS kernel for microcontrollers – AWS 26 February 2019 GreenWaves Technologies Named 2019 Cool Vendor in AI Semiconductors – Gartner 29 April 2019 SiFive Celebrates Historic 100 Design Wins Milestone – SiFive 6 June 2019
- 3. New workloads demand processor flexibility for innovation Legacy ISAs Are Decades Old RISC-V Unlocks the Architecture & Enables Innovation RISC-V is Open Source, transparent, and royalty free RISC-V Foundation
- 4. Welcome to the RISC-V revolution! • RISC-V is the open- source hardware Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) • Frozen base user spec released in 2014, contributed, ratified, and openly published by the RISC-V Foundation RISC-V foundation summitRISC-V Foundation The RISC-V Foundation is a non-profit entity serving members and the industry Our mission is to accelerate RISC-V adoption with shared benefit to the entire community of stakeholders. Drive progression of ratified specs, compliance suite, and other technical deliverables Grow the overall ecosystem / membership, promoting diversity while preventing fragmentation Deepen community engagement and visibility
- 5. Clean Slate Design Modular StableSimple RISC-V ushers in new era of silicon design RISC-V foundation summitRISC-V Foundation Designed for Exstensibility / Specialization
- 7. 0 25 50 75 100 125 150 175 200 225 250 275 300 Q3 2015 Q4 2015 Q1 2016 Q2 2016 Q3 2016 Q4 2016 Q1 2017 Q2 2017 Q3 2017 Q4 2017 Q1 2018 Q2 2018 Q3 2018 Q4 2018 Q1 2019 Q2 2019 RISC-V Foundation Growth History September 2015 to May 2019 8May 2019 More than 250 RISC-V Members in 28 Countries Around the World 13 Universities 23 Development Tools; SW and Cloud 29 Consulting; Research 45 Semiconductor IP; IP and Design Services; Foundry Services 51 Machine Learning/AI; Commercial Chip Vendors; FPGA; Broad Market; Networking; Application Processors, Graphics 104 Individual RISC-V developers and advocates
- 8. RISC-V is visibly disrupting the industry RISC-V foundation summit 9 1,183 attendees at 2018 RISC-V Summit 1,836 press articles 6,314 LinkedIn Followers 8,866 @RISC_V Twitter Followers 34,200+ articles mentioning RISC-V Foundation, member companies and ISA since January 2016
- 9. Programs increase member value + engagement 10 Technical Deliverables • Guard against fragmentation • Manage and progress technical deliverables through work groups and development team • Process and initiate technical work groups • Develop and manage member sandbox portal Compliance + Certification • Develop self serve testing and compliance certification suite • Provide visibility to additional compliance certification and verification options Advocacy + Outreach • Establish technical advocate program • Engage geographic and domain specific engineers via advocate-led formal and informal opportunities • Establish alliances with other organizations Learning + Talent • Develop multi-level learning modules • Connect universities, professors, and course material • Develop badge and skill certification • Match talent via online and event forums Visibility • Drive constant drumbeat of member and foundation visibility through multiple media • Engage in industry events and host Foundation events • Cultivate strategic visibility through industry forums, analysts, and media Marketplace • Provide online marketplace of providers and products • Offer RFP matching to members
- 10. Engage! Drive technical priorities in 20 focus areas RISC-V Foundation Opcode Space Mgmt Standing Committee Software Standing Committee Base ISA Ratification Task Group Privileged ISA Spec Task Group UNIX-Class Platform Spec Task Group Formal Specification Task Group Compliance Task GroupB Extension (Bit Manipulation) Task Group J Extension (Dynam. Translated Lang) Task Group P Extension (Packed-SIMD Inst) Task Group V Extension (Vector Ops) Task Group Cryptographic Extension Task Group Debug Specification Task Group Fast Interrupts Spec Task Group Memory Model Spec Task Group Processor Trace Spec Task Group Sv128 Specification Task GroupTrusted Execution Env Spec Task Group + Security Committee and proposed Safety Task Group
- 11. Come together. Right Now. Meetups (1,500+ Members) RISC-V Foundation Bay Area RISC-V Group https://www.meetup.com/Bay-Area-RISC-V-Meetup/ Rocky Mountain Area RISC-V Group https://www.meetup.com/Rocky-Mountain-Area-RISC-V-Group/ Austin Area RISC-V Group https://www.meetup.com/Austin-Area-RISC-V-Group/ Israel RISC-V Meetups https://www.meetup.com/Israel-RISC-V-meetups/ Cambridge RISC-V Meetup Group https://www.meetup.com/Cambridge-RISC-V-Meetup-Group/ Bristol RISC-V Meetup Group https://www.meetup.com/Bristol-RISC-V-Meetup-Group/ Pune RISC-V Group https://www.meetup.com/Pune-RISC-V-Group/ Vienna RISC-V Meetup https://www.meetup.com/Vienna-RISC-V-Meetup/ Shanghai RISC-V Meetup https://www.meetup.com/shanghai-riscv/ San Diego RISC-V Group https://www.meetup.com/San-Diego-RISC-V-Group/
- 13. RISC-V Foundation multiplies the investment members are making in RISC-V Value Proposition for Members - Ability to drive standards and set direction on future specifications - Exposure to a large client base, across global markets - Strong, growing ecosystem for collaboration - Invested programs across technical areas and more to accelerate your strategy - Several RISC-V Foundation groups for support (technical, marketing, educational, etc.) - Use of the RISC-V trademarks and logos RISC-V Foundation
- 14. RISC-V is already disrupting the silicon industry. Thank you for driving us forward! Join the Revolution
- 16. References RISC-V foundation summit 19 https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/02/aws-announces-riscv-support-freertos-kernel/ https://technews.bg/article-116996.html https://riscv.org/2019/05/getting-started-with-risc-v-china-roadshow-proceedings/alibaba-pushing-data-from-edge-to- cloud-with-risc-v-ecosystem/ https://hackaday.com/2019/02/13/western-digital-releases-their-risc-v-cores-to-the-world/ https://www.sifive.com/press/sifive-celebrates-historic-100-design-win-milestone
Editor's Notes
- #4: Legacy ISA’s have been around for decades and weren’t designed for today’s new workloads RISC-V allows us to start with a clean sheet of paper and optimize for new workloads RISC-V gives us the ability to innovate Completely open source Everything about the ISA is available to all Anyone can access and implement it free of charge Implementations can be shared Two major legacy architectures are proprietary and are not easily modifiable
- #5: Talk about what an ISA is….
- #6: 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
- #8: Highlight the ecosystem. It is strong, but we need more!
- #12: Emphasize all of the great things that have been accomplished – Need to take it to the next level! Amp it up!!! Talk about the synergies with the Linux Foundation. We will be able to focus on our key objectives instead of having to deal with the day to day back-end office tasks. Talk about building the value proposition for members
- #13: Mention that this years summit had over 1100 attendees vs. last year @ 480 attendees - More than doubled in size New this year – One-day events. Allows us to cover a bigger geographic area and hit technically dense areas faster. Webinars will be something new this year.
- #15: New Meetup Groups popping up monthly – Great source of marketing