RISC-V Summit

Over the last decade, the industry standard RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) has profoundly changed the computing industry with billions of cores shipped and a growing ecosystem of successful businesses all betting their future on RISC-V, but this is only just the beginning. In this session, Calista Redmond will discuss three ways that RISC-V is disrupting and defining the processor industry in the next decade. The ability to customize and extend RISC-V microprocessor designs will usher in an era of workload-defined silicon, where hardware / software co-design enables faster, more efficient compute, optimized for each application. This will power the deployment of AI in mainstream applications, where the flexibility to customize will accelerate innovation and adoption of AI worldwide. This new era of computing will enable developers, industries, and countries to solve local problems, together with access to a global ecosystem and market. Come and discover the future of computing!

The XuanTie team is dedicated to advancing RISC-V full-stack hardware and software technologies while fostering a robust ecosystem. Over the past year, we have partnered with industry leaders to deploy innovative RISC-V applications across a wide range of scenarios, from edge to cloud, like edge AI, 5G, laptops, servers, cloud infrastructure and more.

In this presentation, we will share XuanTie's efforts in advanced RISC-V development, including technical exploration in AI and high performance computing, as well how to achieve it by hardware and software co-development. Additionally, we will provide updates on XuanTie products and ecosystem build.

Nine years ago, NVIDIA selected RISC-V for its embedded microcontrollers. Since then, we developed many processors and software stacks, all based on a common underlying hardware and software architecture. Today, every NVIDIA chip comes with multiple embedded RISC-V microcontrollers, each customized for a specific application. In the presentation, we will discuss our architecture as well as several applications. RISC-V’s rich feature set, configurability, extensibility, and active community are reasons why we stand by our 2015 decision to use RISC-V.

As an open standard, RISC-V architecture has been fast adopted in many major embedded applications, including AI/ML for Cloud and Edge, Automotive, 5G/Networking, MCU/MPU, Multimedia, Storage, Sensor Processing, and Wireless Connectivity. It also started showing up on initial systems of personal computing devices as well as servers. All those applications will continue to be key drivers for global semiconductor industry at least for the next several years and create further opportunity for RISC-V to grow its market share.
 
In this talk, we will look at RISC-V’s successful stories in various applications. Then we will share our insight of some RISC-V features and ecosystem important for several key technologies behind those applications. We will cover AI/ML acceleration, application processing, embedded and real-time systems, functional safety and security. We will use Andes products as examples for illustration’s purpose.

Vehicles are undergoing a period of massive evolution driven by increased levels of autonomy, new in-car experiences, and electrification, driving the automotive supply chain to deliver greater innovation while streamlining the product life cycle. RISC-V is the Open Standard Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) that uniquely scales across every in-vehicle compute application, cost effectively delivering innovation opportunities to meet diverse compute requirements that power future generations of vehicles. This session explores how the RISC-V ISA can be used to simplify development and deployment of extensible, power- and area-efficient hardware and software innovation across vehicle ranges and models. It will discuss how RISC-V implementations and ecosystem can offer efficiencies for the automotive supply chain, and the new possibilities it will open up for in-vehicle compute experiences.

As embedded computing evolves, scalable, high-performance solutions are essential. In this keynote, Mr. Patrick Johnson, Senior Vice President, FPGA and Timing Business Units at Microchip Technology, Inc. will explore the capabilities of Microchip's new 64-bit PIC64 microprocessors. Attendees will learn how these processors handle complex workloads across industrial, automotive, aerospace, and defense sectors.

Discover the unique architecture of the PIC64GX, featuring high-performance RISC-V cores, advanced memory management, and flexible interconnects designed for intelligent edge applications. Key highlights include:

- Enhanced performance, reduced latency, and improved system reliability
- Real-world use cases showcasing the capabilities of PIC64 microprocessors
- Microchip’s MPLAB extension for unified development across multiple ISAs

Gain insights into designing high-performance embedded systems with Microchip's innovative solutions. Join us to explore the future of intelligent edge computing.

The RISC-V ISA is one of the most exciting recent developments in computing with amazing potential to revolutionise applications and industries worldwide. But what does it take to bring consumer products to market based on this young ISA? This session will explore how DeepComputing and their partners worked together to develop a range of products including the first RISC-V based laptop and tablet. It will detail the risk taking, collaboration, learning and accelerated technical development needed to put these products into the hands of consumers worldwide. Come and be inspired, maybe next year’s biggest RISC-V based product could be designed by you.

10 years ago, David Patterson and Krste Asanović made the case for RISC-V as an open Instruction Set Architecture with the vision that it become the standard ISA for all computing devices. In this session, David Patterson revisits the arguments we made in that paper and the objections to it at the time then gives his views of the progress made in the subsequent decade and his thoughts on the future. 

The impact of computing on our modern world is profound, changing our daily life with new ways to communicate, work, and play. Until now, advances in computing have been led by a limited number of companies and countries. RISC-V has changed everything and taken down the barriers to entry. As the industry standard ISA, RISC-V has opened doors for companies big and small, universities and research institutes, and even governments to engage in the global digital economy. RISC-V enables engineers and developers worldwide to innovate locally, with access to a global ecosystem and market. In this panel, we gather experts from around the world to discuss how RISC-V is changing computing in their geography through direct investments, collborations, and incentives to build a bright digital future.