Podcast EP309: The State of RISC-V and the Upcoming RISC-V Summit with Andrea Gallo
Daniel is joined by Andrea Gallo, CEO of RISC-V International. Before joining RISC-V he worked in leadership roles at Linaro for over a decade and before Linaro he was a fellow at STMicroelectronics.
Dan explores the current state of the RISC-V movement with Andrea, who describes the focus and history of this evolving standard. Andrea describes the significant traction RISC-V is seeing across many markets, thanks to its ability to facilitate innovation. Andrea then describes the upcoming RISC-V Summit. He explains that the event will have many high-profile keynote speakers including Google and NASA, who will discuss RISC-V in space. Application of RISC-V to blockchain will also be discussed.
Andrea explains that there will be a new developers workshop on the first day of the summit which will include lectures and a hands-on lab with a real design. Exercises will include analyzing a SystemVerilog implementation to determine if a problem is in hardware or software. Other topics at the summit will include analyst presentations. Andrea also comments on the software enablement work underway as well as future expansion of RISC-V.
The RISC-V Summit will be held at the Santa Clara Convention Center on October 21-23. (October 21 is Member Day.) You can get more information and register for the event here.
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