State of the Union: RISC-V
summary
Project starts in 2010 and establishes a frozen base ISA with modular extensions, first tape out in 2011 and a Linux port shortly after; foundation forms in August 2015, Nvidia commits GPUs in 2016 and Western Digital announces migration, SiFive ships the first commercial UNIX SoC early 2018. Privilege spec 1.10 and the memory model move toward ratification, compliance suites and platform profiles are under development, and the ecosystem hits ~10,000 Debian packages. Security standing committee forms to drive vetted work.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction to RISC-V
- 1:28Core design principles
- 2:45History and milestones
- 6:35Standardization and compliance
- 8:58Terminology and ecosystem
- 11:58Enabling diverse applications
- 14:05Defining platform compliance
- 17:16Software and hardware iteration
- 18:52Practicalities of open hardware
- 21:06Future roadmap and initiatives
- 23:35Community growth and conclusion
