Running Quake on RISC V with Virtual Platforms

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Imperas builds a RISC‑V virtual platform with a full reference model and peripheral emulation that boots Linux, runs drivers and user code, and exposes multi‑processor debug and analysis tools. The demo runs Quake interactively with sound and keyboard and logs 119 billion instructions for instruction‑accurate verification against RTL. The environment supports over 250 tunable RISC‑V parameters, insertion of custom instructions via a side library, and heterogeneous systems to enable early software bring‑up before silicon.

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1. 0:00Simulation philosophy
2. 1:03Virtual platforms overview
3. 2:50RISC-V customization
4. 3:55What is a virtual platform
5. 6:18Quake demo introduction
6. 7:45Live Quake demo
7. 9:17Benefits of virtual platforms
8. 9:59Closing and resources

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