RISC V ISA & Foundation Overview
summary
Origins in 2010 lead to a Foundation in August 2015 that owns the spec, the compliance test suites and the trademark; the ISA is deliberately modular extension space with reserved opcodes (M, A, F, D, Q, C) and stable frozen extensions. Industry adoption claims: NVIDIA moves a Falcon control processor path to RISC‑V and cites about 3/4 billion cores in the field; Western Digital ships ~1 billion cores/year and plans broad RISC‑V conversion. Membership exceeds 150 across 25 countries.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction and welcome
- 0:18Overview of RISC-V
- 1:50Origin and history
- 4:00Importance of ISAs
- 5:37The need for a new ISA
- 7:22RISC-V features
- 8:53Modular extensions
- 11:02Resources and documentation
- 12:18Foundation role
- 13:29Membership and growth
- 14:37Governance and events
- 15:42Industry use cases
- 18:07Conclusion and next steps
