First Session
Introduction to RISC-V
- Overview of RISC-V
- What is RISC-V and why is it important?
- History and development of RISC-V
- RISC-V architecture and instruction set
- RISC-V implementations and applications
- RISC-V ISA Overview
- Instruction format
- Instruction set encoding
- Privileged architecture
- Vector instructions
- Compressed instructions
Exercise: |
Setting up a RISC-V development environment and running a "Hello World" program on a RISC-V emulator |
RISC-V CPU Implementation
- RISC-V 32-bit CPU implementation
- RISC-V 32-bit instruction set
- RISC-V 32-bit register set
- RISC-V 32-bit pipeline
- RISC-V 64-bit CPU implementation
- RISC-V 64-bit instruction set
- RISC-V 64-bit register set
- RISC-V 64-bit pipeline
Exercise: |
CPU Implementation |
Second Session
RISC-V Memory Management
- Introduction to RISC-V memory management
- Memory management unit
- Virtual memory
- Address translation
- Memory-mapped I/O in RISC-V
- MMIO interface
- Device drivers
- Virtual memory and address translation in RISC-V
- Page tables
- Translation lookaside buffer
RISC-V Interrupt and Exception Handling
- Introduction to RISC-V interrupts and exception handling
- Interrupts and exceptions
- Interrupt handling
- Implementing interrupt handlers in RISC-V assembly and C
- Interrupt service routines
- Exception handling
- Handling exceptions and errors in RISC-V
- Exception vectors
- Trap handling
Exercise: |
Interrupt and Exception Handling |
RISC-V C Programming and Debugging
- Introduction to RISC-V C programming
- Setting up the C development environment
- Writing and compiling RISC-V C code
- Debugging and testing C code
Exercise: |
C programming and debugging |
Third Session
RISC-V Optimization
- Introduction to RISC-V performance optimization
- Understanding performance metrics
- Identifying performance bottlenecks
- Profiling and benchmarking RISC-V code
- Using performance counters
- Analyzing performance data
- Optimizing RISC-V code for performance
- Instruction scheduling
- Loop optimization
- Register allocation
- Memory optimization
Exercise: |
Optimizing RISC-V Code |
RISC-V Optimization for FPGA and Embedded Systems
- Introduction to RISC-V on FPGA
- Overview of FPGA technology
- RISC-V on FPGA: benefits and challenges
- Synthesis and Implementation
- Synthesis flow
- Place and route
- Power and performance optimization
- Designing RISC-V systems with FPGA
- SoC design
- Peripherals and interfaces
- Interrupts and exception handling
- RISC-V on embedded systems and IoT applications
- Applications and use-cases
- Memory and power constraints
- Security and privacy concerns
Exercise: |
Implementing a RISC-V system on an FPGA development board |