SAN FRANCISCO, May 15, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- CHIPS Alliance,
the leading consortium advancing common, open hardware for
interfaces, processors and systems, announced it is holding its
inaugural workshop on June 19, 2019
at Google at 111 W. Java Drive, Sunnyvale, Calif.
Project details, strategy and roadmaps will be presented by
member companies, and attendees will have an opportunity to propose
Register Transfer Level (RTL) projects and development flow ideas.
The workshop will focus on open source hardware, software tools,
RTL development, design verification tools and related topics. The
agenda and registration details are available at
https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/chips-alliance-workshop-2019
"This workshop at Google will kick off CHIPS Alliance hardware
RTL development. The organization will discuss the planned
projects, what is needed for accelerated open source hardware and
key software tools. Attendees will see the potential of CHIPS
Alliance and the vision for what we will deliver," said Dr.
Zvonimir Bandic, Western Digital and
Chairman of the CHIPS Alliance Foundation.
"Workshop attendees will learn more about our organization and
the open source hardware, verification flows/tools and software we
will be developing. Attendees will also have an opportunity to
suggest projects and meet with CHIPS Alliance members and the Board
of Directors. We look forward to answering questions, discussing
ideas and sharing the aspirations of the group," said Dr.
Richard Ho, Google and Board member
of the CHIPS Alliance Foundation.
CHIPS Alliance members include Antmicro, Esperanto Technologies,
Google, SiFive and Western Digital. The Alliance is a collaborative
forum designed to accelerate the creation and deployment of more
efficient and flexible CPUs, SoCs and complex peripherals for FPGAs
and custom silicon. It is supported by a Board of Directors
and a Technical Steering Committee.
CHIPS Alliance
Inaugural Workshop Agenda
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9:00
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Introduction to CHIPS
Alliance (Zvonimir Bandic)
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9:15
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Why open source
hardware unlocks innovation (Martin Fink)
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9:40
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Federation: An
Open-Source Chip Design Workflow (Yunsup Lee)
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10:05
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Collaborative end to
end Design Verification Flow (Richard Ho)
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10:30
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Break
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11:00
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RISC-V SweRV Core
contribution (Zvonimir Bandic)
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11:20
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Open Source Tools:
cocotb and Verilator support (Michael Gielda)
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11:40
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Verilator and Test
Bench Environment roadmap (Wilson Snyder)
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12:00
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Lunch
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1:00
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A natural fit, RISC-V
with CHIPS Alliance (Naveed Sherwani)
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1:25
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BooM v2 coordination
with UC Berkeley (Dave Ditzel)
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1:50
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Audience
Participation - What RTL IP do you want to be designed?
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2:30
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Break
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3:00
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Blue Cheetah
Framework for Rapid IP Design (Krishna Settaluri)
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3:25
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FuseSoC support for
SweRV (Olof Kindgren)
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3:40
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Chisel and
FIRRTL (Yunsup
Lee)
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4:00
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Why join CHIPS
Alliance? (Ted Marena)
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